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They shook their heads. A year? I said. Not so long, they said. Six months? I inquired. They would not, or could not, tell me. But never mind. 'Run down, when you have half a day to spare, for the hours drag on so drearily. O Cytherea, you can't think how drearily! She went. Immediately on her departure Miss Aldclyffe sent a note to the Old House, to Manston.
The packing was done. Cytherea was so restless that she could stay still nowhere. Miss Aldclyffe, who, though she took little part in the day's proceedings, was, as it were, instinctively conscious of all their movements, put down her charge's agitation for once as the natural result of the novel event, and Manston himself was as indulgent as could be wished.
And now, madam, he continued, after a short interval of thought, 'I may, perhaps, hope that you will assist me, or rather not thwart me, in endeavouring to win the love of a young lady living about you, one in whom I am much interested already. 'Cytherea! 'Yes, Cytherea. 'You have been loving Cytherea all the while? 'Yes.
She hazarded a question: 'Would it be desirable for Owen to answer it? 'Not at all, said Miss Aldclyffe peremptorily. A flat answer of this kind had ceased to alarm Cytherea. Miss Aldclyffe's blunt mood was not her worst. Cytherea thought of another man, whose name, in spite of resolves, tears, renunciations and injured pride, lingered in her ears like an old familiar strain.
The camps of the natives were, as usual, distinguished by heaps of shells of Cytherea, oysters, fresh-water mussels, and fish bones. The fresh-water mussel was small, and of a yellowish colour. We had some few drops of rain at about half-past 11 o'clock, A. M, Sept. 12. The horses, though hobbled, had strayed so far in search of water, that we had to wait for them until 1 o'clock.
"That's right, Cupid, son of Cytherea; all's common property amongst friends. Seven shillings, I have 'em not. 'They now are five who once were seven; but such as they are, we'll share. 'Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown." "Crowns bear no division, my uncle," said Gabriel, dryly; and he pocketed the five shillings.
Hungry and alone in an unknown land he felt attracted by the kindness of the unhappy creature; there was the fraternity of misery between them. "If you desire company, stay near me," he said; "talk as much as you wish, but do not caress me. I am hungry; I have eaten nothing since dawn, and at this moment I would exchange all the joys of Cytherea for the pittance of any mariner."
At breakfast time, just as Cytherea had again seen the postman pass without bringing her an answer to the advertisement, as she had fully expected he would do, Owen entered the room. 'Well, he said, kissing her, 'you have not been alarmed, of course. Springrove told you what I had done, and you found there was no train? 'Yes, it was all clear. But what is the lameness owing to?
Springrove had come there in the full belief that Cytherea was away from home with Miss Aldclyffe; and he continued ignorant of her presence throughout the service.
Manston, she replied coldly. The long sunny days of the later summer-time brought only the same dreary accounts from Budmouth, and saw Cytherea paying the same sad visits. She grew perceptibly weaker, in body and mind. Manston still persisted in his suit, but with more of his former indirectness, now that he saw how unexpectedly well she stood an open attack.
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