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Tess was woman enough to realize from their avowals to herself that Angel Clare had the honour of all the dairymaids in his keeping, and her perception of his care to avoid compromising the happiness of either in the least degree bred a tender respect in Tess for what she deemed, rightly or wrongly, the self-controlling sense of duty shown by him, a quality which she had never expected to find in one of the opposite sex, and in the absence of which more than one of the simple hearts who were his house-mates might have gone weeping on her pilgrimage.
So saying, she withdrew, followed by the landlady, who was not a little shocked, and somewhat surprised, by the intemperate zeal of her new acquaintance; for, although the good woman believed that Miss Peyton and her whole church were on the highroad to destruction, she was by no means accustomed to hear such offensive and open avowals of their fate.
He wanted to tell her how game she was, and there seemed no way to manage it. But now he could ask her questions. Her friendliness, her amazing confidence, had opened the door. "Exactly what do you mean?" he asked, yet cautiously, for even after her own avowals he might frighten her off the bough. "Does he drink?" She looked at him reprovingly. "No, indeed," she said. "He's a very religious man."
It was in vain and useless for her to speak further on the subject; Caroline would say no more. Her thoughts ran violently in the direction suggested by the artful letter. She would see La Corriveau to-morrow night, and would make no more avowals to Mere Malheur, she said to herself.
"My avowals were explicit you assure me?" said Rodin, pausing after each word for want of breath, but without losing his energy and presence of mind. "Yes, I repeat it," resumed the cardinal; "with the exception of a few chasms, they were most explicit." "Then why repeat them?" said Rodin, with the same sardonic smile on his violet lips. "Why repeat them?" cried the angry prelate.
Arthur Orton is in prison, but there are still many who loudly assert their belief in his identity with the lost Sir Roger; there are others who are quite as strong in their avowals of doubt as to the name found for the huge mystery being the correct one; and there are again others who, caring little who or what the man may be, affect to credit many of his most villanous utterances.
"What confession!" cried the amazed cardinal; "why, with regard to your dangerous intrigues at Rome." "What intrigues?" asked Rodin. "The intrigues you revealed during your delirium," replied the prelate, with still more angry impatience. "Were not your avowals sufficiently explicit? Why, then, this culpable hesitation to complete them?"
Goutran laid his hand on her head. "Carmen, these avowals prove to me that I was not wrong in thinking you the best and the most adorable woman in the world!" "You do not loathe me, then?" "Have I any right to be your judge? I have certainly received a sad shock." He lifted her to a chair.
So careful a silence is observed in the official papers on this feature of the Nun's conspiracy, that it is uncertain how far the countess had committed herself; but she had listened certainly to avowals of treasonable intentions without revealing them, which of itself was no slight evidence of disloyalty; and that the government were really alarmed may be gathered from the simultaneous arrest of Sir William and Sir George Neville, the brothers of Lord Latimer.
She made the past, the irreparable past, present to him, by her avowals. He saw images of it which tortured him. He said: "I do not believe you." And he added: "And if I believed you, I could not see you again, because of the idea that you have loved that man. I have told you, I have written to you, you remember, that I did not wish him to be that man. And since " He stopped.
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