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By this time they were near enough to hear distinctly every word; and, true enough, Sam's voice was heard above all others. At the conclusion of each song they all joined in a hearty laugh, with an expression of "Dats de song for me;" "Dems dems." "Stop," said Carlton, as Georgiana was rising from the log upon which she was seated; "stop, and let's hear this one."
"Let her suffer!" Emilia's eyes flashed. "Ah!" and Georgiana thought, "Have I come upon your nature at last?" However it might be, Emilia was determined to show it. "She took my lover from me, and I say, let her suffer! I would not hurt her myself I would not lay my finger on her: but she has eyes like blue stones, and such a mouth! I think the Austrian executioner has one like it.
"I know all about it," replied Sylvia, resenting this slight upon her erudition. "Georgiana has my father's copy, and his was presented to him by Mr. Audubon." "Audubon?" I said, with a doubt. "Never heard of Audubon?" cried Sylvia, delighted to show up my ignorance. "Only of the great Audubon, Miss Sylvia; the great, the very great Audubon." "Well, this was the great, the very great Audubon.
"Do not shrink from me! Believe me, Georgiana, I even rejoice in this single imperfection, since it will be such a rapture to remove it." "Oh, spare me!" sadly replied his wife. "Pray do not look at it again. I never can forget that convulsive shudder."
Tell me all the risk we run, and fear not that I shall shrink; for my share in it is far less than your own." "No, no, Georgiana!" said Aylmer, impatiently; "it must not be." "I submit," replied she calmly. "And, Aylmer, I shall quaff whatever draught you bring me; but it will be on the same principle that would induce me to take a dose of poison if offered by your hand."
Georgiana took in her father's tray when it was ready, quite as usual, her heart beating fast as she entered and beheld the white face against the propped-up pillows. After the first gasp of surprise she saw the unwonted colour flow into the pale cheeks. "My dear, dear child," he said, as she set down the tray and flew to clasp him in her arms, "this is this is almost more than I can grasp.
The precautionary swarm in Sylvia's case seems multitudinous enough to supply her with successive husbands to the end of her days and in the teeth of all known estimates of mortality. How unlike Georgiana! I think of Georgiana as the single peach on a tree in a season when they are rarest.
"At luncheon it was noticed that the sisters ate a little more than usual. Georgiana toyed with some French beans and a spoonful of calves'-foot jelly. 'I feel a little stronger to-day, she said to Lord Timpany, when he congratulated her on this increase of appetite; 'a little more material, she added, with a nervous laugh.
When they drove on, she did not complain of suffering, but her chest rose and fell many times heavily. She threw him out in the reading of her character, after a space, by excusing herself for having eaten with such eagerness; and it was long before he learnt what Wilfrid's tyrannous sentiment had done to this simple nature. He understood better the fear she expressed of meeting Georgiana.
Pemberley was now Georgiana's home; and the attachment of the sisters was exactly what Darcy had hoped to see. They were able to love each other even as well as they intended. Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of talking to her brother.
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