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The lady's jewelled ornaments were taken off in silence some by her own listless hands, some by Cytherea's. Then followed the outer stratum of clothing. The dress being removed, Cytherea took it in her hand and went with it into the bedroom adjoining, intending to hang it in the wardrobe.
I'll get her, if I move heaven and earth to do it! Indeed, the inexperienced Cytherea had, towards Edward in the first place, and Manston afterwards, unconsciously adopted bearings that would have been the very tactics of a professional fisher of men who wished to have them each successively dangling at her heels.
'No don't, please, Cytherea, said Edward softly, 'Come and sit down with me. 'O yes. I ought to have asked you to, she returned timidly. 'Everybody sits in the chimney-corner in this parish. You sit on that side. I'll sit here.
Miss Aldclyffe still carried in her hand a copy of the newspaper, and while Cytherea had been interesting herself in the picture around, glanced again at the advertisement. She heaved a slight sigh, and began to fold it up again.
Yes, till I die I shan't die till to-morrow. 'We hope for your recovery all of us. 'I know best. Come at six o'clock, darling. 'As soon as ever I can, returned Cytherea tenderly. 'But six is too early you will have to think of your brother's breakfast. Leave Tolchurch at eight, will you? Cytherea consented to this.
"It doesn't interest me." Claire increasingly showed the strain, the unhappiness, through which she was parsing. Nor did it him, he ended lamely, except in the abstract. This at once had the elements of a lie and the unelaborate truth; he couldn't see how his curiosity applied to him, and yet he was intent on its solving. The fixed mobile smile of Cytherea flashed into his thoughts.
Off went the plank; the paddles started, stopped, backed, pattered in confusion, then revolved decisively, and the boat passed out into deep water. One or two persons had said, 'How d'ye do, Mr. Springrove? and looked at Cytherea, to see how she bore her disappointment. Her ears had but just caught the name of the head draughtsman, when she saw him advancing directly to address her.
Alice, when she danced, held her head back with eyes half closed; and suddenly, with her mouth a little parted, she, too, had a look of Cytherea, a flash of the withheld beauty which filled him with restlessness. It startled him, and, sub-consciously, his arm tightened about her. She responded immediately, with an accelerated breath, and the resemblance was gone.
Cytherea O Cytherea, can you forgive me! Her companion pressed her hand. 'But you don't know yet you don't know yet, the invalid murmured. 'It is forgiveness for that misrepresentation to Edward Springrove that I implore, and for putting such force upon him that which caused all the train of your innumerable ills! 'I know all all. And I do forgive you.
The early part of the next week brought an answer to Cytherea's last note of hope in the way of advertisement not from a distance of hundreds of miles, London, Scotland, Ireland, the Continent as Cytherea seemed to think it must, to be in keeping with the means adopted for obtaining it, but from a place in the neighbourhood of that in which she was living a country mansion not twenty miles off.
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