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Nobody knows better than she does how faithfully I love you, and howhopeless it would be to attempt to make me marry another man. Our talk seemed, for someincomprehensible reason, to irritate Oscar.

"The bottle from the chemist's," said Lucilla.

"This is my old nurse," said Lucilla, presenting her attendant to me. "I decline to accept the entire responsibility," said my aunt. "Are you weary of Ramsgate?". I still suffer a littlesometimes. 2020 Poor Miss. Saying all this in a violent hurry, as if he was eager to get away, hegave me a kiss on the forehead, snatched up his shabby hat, and ran outof the room. Her hair was not dressed; and her lace cap was all on oneside.

pooh! After I haddriven away the dog, I begged her to come in and sit down until she hadrecovered herself.

OUR nice dinner had long since come to an end.

Nowhere down the whole extent of theplace was so much as a single morsel of dark color to be seen anywhere. The evidencefollowed the course which it had taken at the preliminaryexaminations--with this difference only, that it was more carefullysifted.

It is a shame to doubt that I loveyou! A perfect gentleman, in full possession of his senses--thereis the unexaggerated and the just description of him.

Is he beautiful? Stop! Rest, Lucilla--rest and composeyourself.". I denied being angry with him; I declared, once more, that I was onlyspeaking the truth. The lady wasa young lady. I proposed returning by the sands.

He left me--without looking up, and without saying a word more.

Thefarther we penetrated on our land-voyage, the more wild and the morebeautiful the solitary landscape grew. challenges to melodramatic modes of representing disability.

Let usstrictly confine ourselves, for the present, to what Madame Pratolungosaid and did. But the faculty ofobserving character is so rare, the curiously mistaken tendency to lookfor logical consistency in human motives and human actions is so general,that I may possibly find the execution of this part of my taskmisunderstood--sometimes even resented--in certain quarters.

Here the writer pauses,and gives me a chance; and here there are matters that must be mentioned,of which she had personally no knowledge at the time.

The poor, weak, lonely, persecuted young fellow dropped his headon my shoulder like a child, and burst out crying.

I wrote briefly, telling the damp lady of the rectory (only at greaterlength) what I have told here. His fierce eyes seemed tosoften behind his spectacles; he took my hand and patted it to encourageme. I silently rose on my side, and put my arm in his.

I also committed a blunder at starting--I offeredLucilla my hand to lead her. stream

His face flushed; he gave a heavy sighas one does sometimes, when one is making a great effort. ", "I see but one man here," I said. Day by day, my prospect of returning to Englandseemed to grow more and more remote.

I want to know if it will come back when I have gotused to the novelty of my position? As the matter then stood, these circumstances were considered as beingunfortunate circumstances for Mr. Dubourg--nothing more. Don't ask me which of these two conclusions I favor. He looked round at me quickly, andcaught me with the tears in my eyes.

Her colorinstantly rose; and once again I felt her hand tighten involuntarilyround my arm. My legacy to my niece shall only take effect on theseterms--namely--that she shall be removed at certain stated periods fromthe Dissenting and Radical influences to which she is subjected under herfather's roof, and shall be placed under the care of an Englishgentlewoman who unites to the advantages of birth and breeding thepossession of high and honorable principles"--etcetera, etcetera. Shesuddenly snatched my hands off the keys. I firmly believe he does.To-morrow will prove whether I am right or wrong. "If I have done you an injustice, sir, I ask your pardon," I answered. And yet, I love the Republic.

"As you please, sir," I said. No!

Ah, heaven!

"Shecompared me disadvantageously with Nugent; and she allowed Nugent topersonate me in speaking to you, without interfering to stop it.

9 0 obj What air over my head; what grass under my feet!The sweetness of the inner land, and the crisp saltness of the distantsea, were mixed in that delicious breeze. Was this resolution solely inspired by my interest in Lucilla? "It is not quite so thick as it was some hours since.But there is the mist as plain as can be!". Did he know anything of the murdered man?

Years ago I met with a man in Italy, who taught me. Such was my first experience ofReverend Finch's Wife--destined to be also the experience of allaftertime.

Or had myown curiosity been all the time working under the surface, andinfluencing the course of my reflections unknown to myself? I said.

It isadmitted, on either side, that the result of the interview was the same.When Grosse took the train for London, Nugent Dubourg was not at thestation. ", I had more to say--but at this place, Grosse (without meaning it, I amsure) suddenly stopped me.

"I have got an embrocation for her; and I can't very well send it. Lucilla herself! ", "The landlord asked the one who stayed behind for his name," repliedLucilla.

"Were you afraid of distressing me?". The clock (regulated bythe maker, only the day before) pointed to twenty-five minutes to nine.Practical experiment showed that the time required to walk the distance,at a rapid pace, from the stile to the lady's house, was just fiveminutes. she exclaimed, lettingout the secret which her old nurse had confided to me. $E}k���yh�y�Rm��333��������:� }�=#�v����ʉe "I suppose you aretoo tired to go out again, after your walk on the hills?"

They enjoy their ownjokes across you at table--and wonder how it is that you are not amused.In domestic circles of this sort the sisters sit habitually on thebrothers' knees; and the husbands inquire into the wives' ailments, inpublic, as unconcernedly as if they were closeted in their own room. "Welcome,Madame Pratolungo, to Dimchurch; and excuse these male and femalelaborers who stand and stare at you.

With some difficulty I prevailed on her to defer theproposed report of me for a day or two--and we parted for the night (theold lady's fits of temper are soon over) as good friends as usual. %PDF-1.4

As to reallyvenerating and loving him--the less said about that the better. Oscar suddenly stopped. He was pressed on this important point; buthe held to his declaration. ", "I am asking you to pay a fortnight's visit at the house of a marriedlady--and to keep the knowledge of that visit from the ears of the worstenemy you have, until you have become my wife," he answered. /Subtype /Image

My life has never lookedso wretched and so worthless to me as it looked to-day on the pier atRamsgate. She has seen for herself--what you havealready told me--that you have got over your first aversion to him. Bear up , Mrs. Finch ; bear up . "You have forced it out of me. Her clever fingers were passingover it rapidly, exactly as they had passed, the previous evening, overmy face.

Shocking! Ilooked at him as he passed us. Still this youthful Oracleanswered always in three monosyllabic words! Well--at dinner, Iannounced Grosse's visit; adding significantly, "at luncheon-time.".

I asked him. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Ishall never hear the last of it. /BS

This was the blind girl whosedark hours I had come to cheer. THE rectory resembled, in one respect, this narrative that I am nowwriting.

Here then was the statement of the farm-bailiff (himself arespectable witness) corroborated by another witness of excellentposition and character.

As the words passed his lips, I struckhim smartly on the shoulder with my parasol. "The charming creature!" I thought of giving lessons in music. He seemedto be pleased--he whistled a tune, and said, 'Now we shall do!' Etext by James Rusk, jrusk@mac-email.com.

At half-past eight he had seen Mr. Dubourghurriedly leave the field.

I had my duty to do as arespectable woman. Here and there on the pavements, an inhabitant with a capacityfor staring, and (apparently) a capacity for nothing else. endobj Before he could answer the question the lady passed, withtwo lovely children, and with a tall man at her side. The cares of a numerous family--". he said. Was I wrong? Not the least littleaccident happened to spoil my enjoyment of the day. There was another public seat, a few paces distant from us. My duty as a respectable woman lay clearly before me--my duty was to tellher a lie. "Well?" ", I stopped him there--I could not endure it.

Shall we get ready?". A proud delicacy--I saw it as plainly in her face, as Inow see you--a proud delicacy silenced her; she looked wounded and hurt.I have been thinking of that look, since I have been here. Or theservant at the rectory may have forgotten to deliver it.

Imentioned my name, as soon as I could make myself heard. "Oh, his charmingvoice!" Any correspondence between them--a confidentialcorrespondence especially--seemed to be one of the most unlikely thingsthat could take place.

", "To the lady whom you met with me last night.". /Producer (�� Q t 4 . I considered it myduty to make myself acquainted with the local names. I had hardly closed the door of my bedroom when there was a knock at it.Lucilla? (Duty! The trial has come. Like the other Persons of the Drama, inthis book and in the books which have preceded it, he is drawn from mygeneral observation of humanity. When heentered the room at the hotel in which Nugent was waiting, he announcedthe object of his visit in these four plain words, as follows: Nugent coolly offered him a chair, and asked what he meant. In the present embittered state of myfather's feelings against my aunt, he will either leave her letterunanswered, or he will offend her by an angry reply. "To my mind, mydear," was all I said, "it is a very beautiful view.". Possibly, this person was new to the duty of receiving visitors.Possibly, she was bewildered by a sudden invasion of children in dirtyfrocks, darting out on us in the hall, and then darting away again intoinvisible back regions, screeching at the sight of a stranger. No safe opportunity of secretly putting the clock right again hadoccurred, until the last thing at night.

Your companion smiles at yoursimplicity, and wonders whether you have ever seen his sister when she isdressed for a ball. I skirted the wall of the enclosure, and approached himunsuspected, from behind. "What do you propose to do?" How did Dubourg come to be tried for his life?And what was the connection between this serious matter and the falsetestimony of a clock? On that, he left me.

", (I must have been more or less than woman, if I had not recovered the useof my tongue now!

But no. Arrived at the bottom, I discovered another sign of Man. When we were tired of pacing to andfro, we could sit down under the mellow sunshine, and enjoy the balmy seaair. "I find her gone back, back, back!"

Soh!

I don't care who orwhat she may be--high or low; handsome or ugly; young or old--it alwaysrelieves a woman's mind to look at the shop-windows. "I am not ill as you suppose," Iexplained. I persisted in defending her. I repeatliterally: those were the words.". Only her companion. Behold the firstroad I had seen yet--a rough wagon-road ploughed deep in the chalky soil!We crossed this, and turned a corner of a hill. My address in London is on the otherleaf. he said, as soon as he had got his breath again.

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