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'I do not know that I would not. For a time it might serve him perhaps. Here is the cab. Here they are. Yes; you had better go down and let your mother know that I am here. They will perhaps take him up to bed, so that I need not see him. Hetta did as she was bid, and met her mother and her brother in the hall.
When this was finally arranged Roger Carbury, who had returned to his own home, conceived the idea that it would be well that Hetta should pass the autumn and if possible the winter also down in Suffolk, so that she might get used to him in the capacity which he now aspired to fill; and with that object he induced Mrs Yeld, the Bishop's wife, to invite her down to the palace.
The kind of life of which he dreamed, such a life in England as was that of Roger Carbury, or, as such life would be, if Roger had a wife whom he loved, seemed to be far beyond his reach. Nobody was like Roger Carbury! Would it not be well that he should go away, and, as he went, write to Hetta and bid her marry the best man that ever lived in the world?
'And mamma has gone to fetch him, said Hetta. 'That's John Crumb, said Roger. Hetta had never heard of John Crumb, and simply stared into her cousin's face. 'You have not been told about John Crumb? No; you would not hear of him. 'Why should John Crumb beat Felix like that?
'Of course I will never go against mamma, continued Hetta, 'but I always feel that my cousin Roger is a rock of strength, so that if one did whatever he said one would never get wrong. I never found any one else that I thought that of, but I do think it of him. 'No one has more reason to praise him than I have. 'I think everybody has reason to praise him that has to do with him.
'I do not wish it to be talked of, said Roger after a pause, 'and of course I could not speak of it before Hetta. A girl has gone away from our neighbourhood. You remember old Ruggles? 'You do not mean that Ruby has levanted? She was to have married John Crumb. 'Just so, but she has gone off, leaving John Crumb in an unhappy frame of mind.
Why could she not have told him something of all this? And so the few days of his second sojourn at Saratoga passed away, not altogether satisfactorily. It was settled that he should return to New York on Saturday night, leaving Saratoga on that evening; and as the Beckards Hetta was already regarded quite as a Beckard were to be back to dinner on that day, Mrs.
But when, what the traveller called the breeding of the wild cat, showed itself; and when, having escaped from her, he thought of Hetta Carbury and of her breeding, he was fully determined that, let his fate be what it might, it should not be that of being the husband of Mrs Hurtle.
She had asked for her cousin's assent to her own views, but that, as Roger felt, was to be given rather by the discontinuance of opposition than by any positive action, Roger's influence with her mother was the assistance which Hetta really wanted from him, and that influence could hardly be given by the writing of any letter.
The ladies were reported as being at home, and he was at once shown into the drawing-room, where Hetta was sitting. She hurried up to him, and he at once took her in his arms and kissed her. He had never done such a thing before. He had never even kissed her hand. Though they were cousins and dear friends, he had never treated her after that fashion.
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