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Her passion for Dacier might have burnt out her heart. And at present he had no claim to visit her, dared not intrude. He would have nothing to say, if he went, save to answer questions upon points of business: as to which, Lady Dunstane would certainly summon him when he was wanted.
'You remember the mare Bertha; you have ridden her. 'The mare would do, and better than a dozen horses. He consulted his watch. 'Let me mount Bertha, I engage to deliver a letter at The Crossways to-night. Lady Dunstane half inclined to act hesitation in accepting the aid she sought, but said: 'Will you find your way? He spoke of three hours of daylight and a moon to rise.
'And five good years of serfdom I'd serve to win her! A look at him under the eyelids assured Lady Dunstane that there would be small chance for Mr. Sullivan Smith; after a life of bondage, if she knew her Diana, in spite of his tongue, his tact, his lively features, and breadth of shoulders. Up he sprang. Diana was on Mr. Redworth's arm.
He was a big-chested fellow, and that excruciating twist within of the revolution of the wheels of the brain snapping their course to grind the contrary to that of the heart, was revealed in one short lift and gasp, a compression of the tremendous change he underwent. 'Why did you not speak before? said Lady Dunstane. Her words were tremulous. 'I should have had no justification!
By dint of reading solid writers, using the brains they possessed, it was revealed to them gradually that their particular impatience came perhaps of the most earnest desire to get to a comfortable termination of the inquiry: the heart aching for mankind sought a nest for itself. At this point Lady Dunstane took the lead. Diana had to be tugged to follow.
This ironic fury, coming of the contrast of the outer and the inner, would have been indulged to the extent of permanent injury to her disposition had not her beloved Emma, immediately after the tension of the struggle ceased, required her tenderest aid. Lady Dunstane chanted victory, and at night collapsed.
'You may be sure she is a constant friend, Lady Dunstane said for his comfort; and she reminded herself subsequently of a shade of disappointment at his imperturbable rejoinder: 'I could calculate on it. For though not at all desiring to witness the sentimental fit, she wished to see that he held an image of Diana: surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity that the two men she had moved were merely excellent, emotionless, ordinary men, with heads for business.
The vivid idea of her was a phantom presence, and cold, assuring him that the bodily Diana was absent. Had Lady Dunstane guessed rightly, he might perhaps have been of service! Anticipating the blank silence, he rang the house-bell. It seemed to set wagging a weariful tongue in a corpse.
I have and hold you shall hunger and covet, until you are strong enough to force my hand: that 's the speech of the wealthy. And they are Christians. In name. Well, I thank heaven I'm at war, with myself. 'You always manage to strike out a sentence worth remembering, Tony, said Lady Dunstane. 'At war with ourselves, means the best happiness we can have.
He did not expect it; still he fronted the risks. 'And now, said he, 'I come to you for counsel. I am not held among my acquaintances to be a marrying man, as it's called. He paused. Lady Dunstane thought it an occasion to praise him for his considerateness. 'You involve no one but yourself, you mean? Her eyes shed approval.
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