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I once saw a picture of 'The Knight of the Woful Countenance' the K. of the W. C. looked exactly as you look now! If you're thinking of strychnine, say so no one shall oppose you. My only regret is, that I shall have to wear black, and hideous is a mild word to describe Edith Darrell in black." "Hideous!" Charley repeated, "you! I wonder if you could possibly look ugly in anything?
Hamilton put out his hand, as though to forbid approach; but with a cry of despair Miss Darrell seemed to sink to the ground, and held him convulsively round the knees, so that he could not free himself. 'Get up, Etta! he said indignantly. 'It is not to me you have to kneel'; for he thought her attitude one of supplication. But I knew better.
There seemed to be something in Darrell that resented it under an outer show of felicitation. However, they went on talking of the political moment and its prospects, and of Ashe's personal affairs. As to the last, Darrell questioned, and Ashe somewhat reluctantly replied.
I hope I hope this young girl loves you?" Again the color rose over his face again he turned impatiently away. "She will love me," he answered; "she has promised it, and Edith Darrell is a girl to keep her word."
By this time he was able to move about his room on crutches, and on the day of Walcott's return he insisted upon being placed in his carriage and taken to the office. At his request Darrell accompanied him and remained with him. Walcott, upon his arrival in the city, had heard of the illness of his senior partner, and was therefore greatly surprised on entering the offices to find him there.
"You ought to hear Darrell," said the man; and a few days later he wrote Thyrsis a note, asking him to go to a hall over on the East Side that evening. Thyrsis went, and found a working-men's meeting-room, ill-lighted and ill-ventilated, with perhaps two hundred people in it. The chairman introduced the speaker of the evening; and so Thyrsis got his first glimpse of Henry Darrell.
Chatty helped me arrange my goods and chattels: as we worked together she told me confidentially that master had been scolding Leah, and had told her she ought to be ashamed of herself, and when Miss Darrell had taken her part he had been angry with her too.
"It's no use talking to you you know all the gossip. And some county big-wigs, whose names I can't remember come to dinner to-night." Mrs. Alcot stifled a yawn. "I am very curious to see how Ashe takes his triumph," said Darrell, as they paused half-way. "He is just the same. No!" said Madeleine Alcot, correcting herself "no not quite. He meant to triumph, and he knows that he has done so."
'One by one she dropped her duties. The parish knew her no more. She certainly looked ill. Her melancholy increased. Something was evidently preying on her mind. 'One day Miss Darrell spoke to me. She had been very kind, and had fed my hopes all this time. But now she was the bearer of bad news. 'She came to me in the study, while I was waiting for Hamilton.
And these recitals made her conceive a more soft and tender interest in Guy Darrell than she had before admitted; they accounted for the mournfulness on his brow; they lessened her involuntary awe of that stateliness of bearing which before had only chilled her as the evidence of pride.
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