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Are you discreet? If you are, you will let it be known that I had the honour of becoming intimate with you in Turin say, at the Court. We shall meet frequently there during winter, I trust, if you care to make a comparison of the Italian with the Austrian and the English nobility." An eloquent "Oh!" escaped from Adela's bosom.
'Ma says it is their meanness; but my aunt, Lady Northmoor, did say perhaps it would be livelier another year, and then we should have had some dancing and deportment lessons. I up and told her I could dance fast enough now, but she said it would not be becoming or right to Lady Adela's and Miss Morton's feelings. 'Do they live there? 'Not in the house.
"Oh, I haven't seen this half enough," began Polly, "and I've wanted to for so long." Then she glanced at Adela's face. "Well, all right," she said, and turned off, to come directly into the path of Grandpapa, with Phronsie clinging to his hand, and the rest of his part of the "family" standing in silent admiration. "We thought we'd come here first," said old Mr. King.
On the track of cunning Mutimer's mind was keen enough; only amid the complexities of such motives as sway a pure heart in trouble was he quite at a loss. This confession of untruthfulness might on the face of it have spoken in Adela's favour; but his very understanding of that made him seek for subtle treachery.
Cosway was punctual to his appointment. He knocked three times; he pronounced Miss Restall's Christian name. Nothing happened. He waited a while, and tried again. This time Adela's voice answered strangely from the shrubbery in tones of surprise: "Edwin, is it really you?" "Did you expect any one else?" Cosway asked. "My darling, your message said ten o'clock and here I am."
Then he said, courteously but coldly: 'I am very sorry that you have asked the one thing I cannot do. Adela's heart sank. In putting a distance between him and herself she had obeyed an instinct of self-preservation; now that it was effected, the change in his voice was almost more than she could bear. 'Why do you refuse? she asked, trying, though in vain, to look up at him.
For Adela of France, the Queen Countess, had heard so much of Torfrida's beauty, that she must needs have her as one of her bower-maidens; and her mother, who was an old friend of Adela's, of course was highly honored by such a promotion for her daughter. So they went to Bruges, and Hereward and his men went of course; and they feasted and harped and sang; and the saying was fulfilled,
How could this man, who spoke with such impressive frankness, with such persuasiveness, be the abandoned creature that she had of late believed him? With Adela's secret warm in her heart she could not but feel an interest in Hubert, and the interest was becoming something like zeal on his behalf.
"Yes, I can bear it; much better than I could bear going to Adela's in my present state of mind. Don't you think the man we saw had something to do with this? Don't you believe " "Hush! Let us listen rather than talk. What are they saying over there? Can you hear?" "No. And I cannot bear to look. Yet I don't want to go away. It's all so dreadful." "It's devilish. Such a beautiful girl!
But I am only a little girl, you know; so I can only be good." The darling did not know how much more one good woman can do to kill evil than all the swords of the world in the hands of righteous heroes. When the next evening of our assembly came, I could see on Adela's face a look of subdued expectation, and I knew now to what to attribute it: Harry was going to read.
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