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In further talk it was agreed between them that, if this step had no result, John Hewett ought to be immediately informed of the state of things. This was at ten o'clock on Sunday evening. So do we play our tragi-comedies in the eye of fate. The mention of Jane led to a brief conversation regarding her before Sidney took his leave.
And of course the day came to which Hewett had looked forward the day when Sidney could no longer take Clara upon his knee and stroke her brown hair and joke with her about her fits of good and ill humour. Sidney knew well enough what was in his friend's mind, and, though with no sense of constraint, he felt that this handsome, keen-eyed, capricious girl was destined to be his wife.
I have obeyed your orders in regard to sending a copy of my speech to M. Barthelemy St.-Hilaire. The social history of the season is adequately chronicled in the Journal: February 5th. The Ogilvies in London. 22nd. Mr. Christine had been down just before. March 12th. The Club. Good party: Lord Salisbury, Walpole, Tyndall, Hooker, Hewett, Lecky, Lyall, A. Russell, Layard, and self. March 20th.
She knew that but for her unremitting efforts Hewett would have yielded to the despair of a drunkard; the crucial moment was when he found himself forsaken by his daughter, and no one but this poor woman could know what force of loving will, what entreaties, what tears, had drawn him back a little way from the edge of the gulf.
Annandale mentions an instance in which a knitting-needle penetrated the brain through the orbit. Hewett speaks of perforation of the roof of the orbit and injury to the brain by a lead-pencil. Gunshot Injuries of the Orbit.
What now could be done to aid her? John Hewett was still in ignorance of the step she had taken, and Sidney described himself as distracted by conflict between what he felt to be his duty, and fear of what might happen if he invoked Hewett's authority. At intervals through the day he had been going backwards and forwards in the street where Clara had her lodging.
'Decent fellow, Hewett, he observed, putting up one leg against the fireplace. 'Very decent fellow. He's getting old, unfortunately. Had a good deal of trouble, I understand; it breaks a man up. Sidney scowled, and said nothing. 'I thought I'd stay, as I was here, continued Joseph, unbuttoning his respectable overcoat and throwing it open. 'There was something rather particular I had in mind.
And Joseph added his belief that John Hewett would certainly not take it ill if the other went there before it was too late. Sidney had no appetite now for the meal he would have purchased on reaching home. A profound pity for the poor woman who had given him so many proofs of her affection made his heart heavy almost to tears.
His state was that miserable one in which a man repeats for the thousandth time something he has said, and torments himself with devising possible and impossible interpretations thereof. Through the night he had done nothing but imagine what significance Jane might have attached to his words about Clara Hewett. Why had he spoken of Clara at all?
This was great extravagance, obviously; other people would have made two rooms sufficient for all, and many such families would have put up with one. But Hewett had his ideas of decency, and stuck to them with characteristic wilfulness. 'Where do you think I've been this afternoon? John began, when the three little ones were gone, and Mrs. Hewett had been persuaded to lie down upon the bed.
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