It was over; we stood up; the nurse went back
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clearance to the oxygen cylinder; the doctor bent over his patient.
Julia whispered to me: ‘Will you see Father Mackay out? I’m staying here for a
little.’
Outside the door Father Mackay became the simple, genial man I
had known before. ‘Well, now, and that was a beautiful thing to me. I’ve known
it happen that way again and again. The devil resists to the last moment and
then the Grace of God is too much for him. You’re not a Catholic I think,
Mr
chanel handbags
outlet Ryder, but at least you’ll be glad for the ladies to have
the comfort of it.’
As we were waiting for the chauffeur, it occurred to
me that Father Mackay should be paid for his services. I asked him awkwardly.
‘Why, don’t think about it, Mr Ryder. It was a pleasure,’ he said, ‘but anything
you care to give is useful in a parish like mine.’.I found I had three pounds in
my note-case and gave them to him. ‘Why, indeed, that’s more than
chanel bags
outlet generous. God bless you, Mr Ryder. I’ll call again, but I
don’t think the poor soul has 1ong for this world.’
Julia remained in
the Chinese drawing-room until, at five o’clock that evening, her father died
proving both, sides right in the dispute, priest and doctor.
Thus I come
to the broken sentences which were the last words spoken between Julia and me,
the last memories.
When her father died Julia remained some minutes with
his body; the nurse came to the next room to announce
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heels the news and I had a glimpse of her through the open door,
kneeling at the foot of the bed, and of Cara sitting by her. Presently the two
women came out together, and Julia said to me: ‘Not now; I’m just taking Cara up
to her room; later.’
While she was still upstairs Brideshead and
Cordelia arrived from London; when at last we met alone it was by stealth, like
young lovers.
Julia said: ‘Here in the shadow, in the corner of the
stair
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to say good-bye.’
‘So long to say so little.’
‘You
knew?’
‘Since this morning; since before this morning; all this year.’
‘I didn’t know till today. Oh, my dear, if you could only understand. Then I
could bear to part, or bear it better. I should say my heart was breaking, if I
believed in broken hearts. I can’t marry you, Charles; I can’t be with you ever
again.’ ‘I know.’