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Hear me I will keep Helena with me for a few days; she was surprised by what passed in the library this evening I must remove all suspicion from her mind." "There is no suspicion in her mind," said Belinda. "So much the better: she shall go immediately to school, or to Oakly-park. I will then stand my trial for life or death; and if I live I will be, what I have never yet been, a mother to Helena.
She rose to go, and Belinda also, with languid response of motion, as if Paulina Maria were an upstirring wind. When Paulina Maria opened the outer door there was a rush of dank night air. "Don't you want me to walk home with you and Aunt Belinda?" asked Jerome. "It's pretty dark."
"Pardon me," said Clarence; "does not M. de St. Pierre deserve to be called a poet? Though he does not write in rhyme, surely he has a poetical imagination." "Certainly," said Belinda; and from the composure with which Mr. Hervey now spoke, she was suddenly inclined to believe, or to hope, that all Sir Philip's story was false. "M. de St.
Seriously, Belinda, is it my fancy, or is not Clarence wonderfully changed? Is not he grown pale, and thin, and serious, not to say melancholy? What have you done to him since I have been ill?" "Nothing I have never seen him." "No! then the thing is accounted for very naturally he is in despair because he has been banished from your divine presence."
Having thus clinched the argument, I was silent. The venerable. Grand Vizier turned away; I saw a tear trickling down his cheeks. "What a constancy!" said he. "Oh, that such beauty and such bravery should be doomed so soon to quit the earth!" His tall companion only sneered and said, "AND BELINDA ?" "Ha!" said I, "ruffian, be still! Heaven will protect her spotless innocence.
'Worth, if I'm worth a farthing, five hundred thousand pounds bank currency! she says or seems to say, whenever she comes into a room. Now let us see her entree " "But, my dear," cried Lady Delacour, starting at the sight of Belinda, who was still in her morning dress, "absolutely below par!
"I never see nothin' no eleganter, mum," said Mary Anne: "she wants nothin' but a veil to make a bride out of her an' a becominer thing she never has wore." They heard the soft sweep of skirts at that moment, and Octavia came in. "There!" she said, stopping when she had reached the middle of the room. "Is that simple enough?" Miss Belinda could only look at her helplessly.
"I am heartily glad of it I shall be infinitely overpaid for my journey, by having the pleasure of going back with you." After some conversation upon different subjects, Mr. Vincent, with an air of frankness which was peculiarly pleasing to Belinda, put into her hands an anonymous letter, which he had received the preceding day.
He's had some good hauls that way, though not o' late. There was the Belinda at Cape Palmas. That was five thousand, clear, if it was a penny. And the Sockatoo that was a bad business! She was never heard of, nor her crew. Went down at sea, and left no trace." "The crew too!" Tom cried with horror. "But how about yourselves, if what you say is true?"
Belinda absolutely denied the truth of this report: but the dowager continued, "I distress you, I see, and it's quite out of rule, I am sensible, to speak in this sort of way, Miss Portman; but as I'm an old acquaintance, and an old friend, and an old woman, you'll excuse me. I can't help saying, I feel quite rejoiced at your meeting with such a match."
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