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I don't pretend to be fond of the child; but think of her being like me!" "Saturday morning. I have done well for once in acting on impulse, and writing as I did to Mrs. Oldershaw. The only new circumstance that has happened is another circumstance in my favor! "Major Milroy has answered Armadale's letter, entreating permission to call at the cottage and justify himself.
"The maid and the mistress parted," said Mr. Brock, "at the time of the mistress's marriage. The maid and the mistress met again at Mrs. Armadale's residence in Somersetshire last year. I myself met the woman in the village, and I myself know that her visit hastened Mrs. Armadale's death. Wait a little, and compose yourself; I see I have startled you."
Armadale in wishing to procure her a little change and amusement, and had offered to forego his usual quiet habits and join the picnic. With "papa's" sanction, therefore, she accepted, with much pleasure, Mr. Armadale's proposal; and, at "papa's" suggestion, she would presume on Mr.
"'Do you believe in Dreams? he burst out, in the most strangely abrupt manner, without taking the slightest notice of what I had said to him. 'Tell me, he went on, without allowing me time to answer, 'were you, or was any relation of yours, ever connected with Allan Armadale's father or mother? Were you, or was anybody belonging to you, ever in the island of Madeira?
"He turned over the leaves of the manuscript, and pointed to the lines that he wished me to read. "I read these, or nearly read these words, from the Narrative of the Dream, as Midwinter had taken it down from Armadale's own lips: "'The darkness opened for the third time, and showed me the Shadow of the Man and the Shadow of the Woman together.
"Anything so ridiculous as Armadale's behavior under the double shock of discovering that his young lady has been taken away from him, and that I am to be married to Midwinter, I never before witnessed in all my experience. To say that he was like a child is a libel on all children who are not born idiots.
Such a man, nevertheless, was the Reverend Samuel Pentecost, and such a woman was the Reverend Samuel's mother; and in the dearth of any other producible guests, there they were, engaged to eat, drink, and be merry for the day at Mr. Armadale's pleasure party to the Norfolk Broads.
I looked again, and there passed slowly, between me and the track of the moon, a long black vessel with tall, shadowy, ghostlike sails, gliding smooth and noiseless through the water, like a snake. "The wind had come fair with the night; and Armadale's yacht had sailed on the trial cruise." "London, November 19th. I am alone again in the Great City; alone, for the first time since our marriage.
I may personate the richly provided widow of Allan Armadale of Thorpe Ambrose, if I can count on Allan Armadale's death in a given time. "There, in plain words, is the frightful temptation under which I now feel myself sinking. It is frightful in more ways than one; for it has come straight out of that other temptation to which I yielded in the by-gone time.
Armadale's rescue from the sea is, or is not, the welcome news that it ought to be to his wife! That was enough to put his withered old face in a glow, and to set his withered old hopes growing again.
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