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"And had he friends? ' 'One friend perhaps,' said he, / 'And for the rest, I pray you let it be. " -- _Jean Ingelow._
Queenie was terribly restless during the next few days. While the / important negotiation was impending she held aloof as much as / possible from her friends at Church-Stile House. She could scarcely / look Garth in the face when she met him in the village, so heavily / did her secret weigh upon her. She had been once to see Langley, and / had sat with her some time; but their talk had languished, and at / last degenerated into silence. Langley had been too sad and / heavy-hearted to make any pretence of cheerfulness, and Queenie had / been so oppressed with secret consciousness that she had failed in / outward manifestations of sympathy.