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Not only does she greatly love, but there is also in her a rare faculty of inspiring love in those she encounters." "Yes, I know that," said Mary, thinking how much better she knew it than the other, and of the two distinct kinds of love it had been Fan's fortune to inspire. "I blame myself greatly for having kept away from her for so long," continued Constance. "But she is very tenacious.
The little chill would pass off in time, and no harm would result. It did not pass off quickly, however, but lasted three or four days, during which time Mrs. Travers was somewhat distant in her manner, and declined Fan's offer to read to her; and Fan remarked the change, but was at a loss to account for it. But one day, after lunch, when they rose from the table, she said, "Oh, Mrs.
Shaw, who found herself lonely, though much better than usual, for the engagement had a finer effect upon her constitution than any tonic she ever tried. Some three days after Fan's joyful call Polly was startled on entering the Shaws' door, by Maud, who came tumbling down stairs, sending an avalanche of words before her, "He 's come before he said he should to surprise us!
He took the petition to the workhouse, and meeting with little Fan Ropley, who had been taught to write at our charity-school, and is quick at her pen, he makes her sign her name at full length, and then strikes a dot over the e to turn it into Francis, and persuade the great folk up at Lunnun, that little Fan's a grown-up man.
Ada rolled herself from the sofa, and stood yawning. 'Well, I shall go and dress. What are you people going to do? You needn't expect any dinner. I shall have mine at a restaurant. 'Who have you to meet? asked Fanny, with a grimace. Her sister disregarded the question, yawned again, and turned to Beatrice. 'Who shall we ask to take Fan's place on Tuesday? Whoever it 15, they'll have to pay.
Then the face turned to him, and their eyes met, each trying as it were to fathom the other's thought, and Mary's lips quivered, and putting out her hand she spoke with trembling voice "Captain Horton Jack for Fan's sake I forgive you." "God bless you for that, Mary," he said in a low voice, taking her hand and bending lower and lower until his lips touched her fingers.
What a barbarous woman!" cried Constance, tears of keenest distress starting to her eyes, as she hastened to Fan's side, holding out her hands. But Fan would not be caressed; she started as if stung to her feet, her kindling eyes and flushed cheeks showing that her grief and despondence had all at once been swallowed up in some other feeling.
To her, as she had known him, he was brave, kind, gentle in manner and speech, boyishly frank. As she had seen him that once, she had thought him heartless, cowardly, and cynical. She could not reconcile the two, and therefore, in her thoughts, she unconsciously divided him into two individualities her Mr. Johnstone and Lady Fan's Brook. There was very little resemblance between them.
It was Fan's birth-place, the home she had known continuously up till one short year ago; yet now on her return how strange, how foreign to her soul, how even repelling it seemed! The change had come so unexpectedly and in such unhappy circumstances, and the contrast was so great to that peaceful country life and all its surroundings, which had corresponded so perfectly with her nature.
I've betrayed Fan's confidence, I've spoiled your little romance, I've been a thoughtless, wicked girl, I've lost August; and, oh, dear me, I wish I was dead!" with which funereal climax Dolly cried so despairingly that, like the youngest Miss Pecksniff, she was indeed "a gushing creature." "Oh, come now, don't be dismal, and blame yourself for every trouble under the sun.
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