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The Laird was conscious that he had seen the beautiful apparition, and, moreover, that she was the very maiden, or the resemblance of her, who, in the irrevocable decrees of Providence, was destined to be his. It was in vain that M'Murdie reasoned of impressions on the imagination, and "Of fancy moulding in the mind, Light visions on the passing wind."
Doubtless if he heard of her father's ruin, generosity would make him strive to do all that he could for her in her changed circumstances. It would be like him then to step forward and avow himself ready to marry her. But it was out of the question for her to consent. She wished the matter settled and done with; she wished the irrevocable words spoken.
They faced each other the great, historic figure, and the stripling of a century and knew that the limit had been reached. The next move might be irrevocable. "You must submit to the tax." "I will not submit." Englishmen, with some few eminent exceptions, believed that England was in the right. If the word of Parliament was not law, what was?
Beyond the waters that girdled the island, one runner took the trail to Puyallup, one the trail to Umatilla, one the path to Chelon, and one the path to Shasta; another departed toward the volcano-rent desert of Klamath, and still another toward the sea-washed shores of Puget Sound. The irrevocable summons had gone forth; the council was inevitable, the crisis must come.
"Well, I'll listen till the ladder moves again, not a minute longer." "Jack," resumed Harry, "I need not pretend that I do not love Nell; I wish above all things to make her my wife." "That's all right!" "But for the present I have scruples of conscience as to asking her to make me a promise which would be irrevocable." "What can you mean, Harry?"
Wix concluded with an unparalleled neigh of battle. Oh she did know what she was talking about! Maisie had meanwhile appealed mutely to Sir Claude, who judged it easier to meet what she didn't say than to meet what Mrs. Wix did. "It's a letter to Mrs. Beale from your father, my dear, written from Spa and making the rupture between them perfectly irrevocable.
She was careful, in a way, to do nothing irrevocable never to take Guido into her carriage, not to ask him to dinner when there were other guests, not to leave him alone with Cecilia when there was a possibility of such a thing being noticed by the servants, except by the discreet Petersen, who could be trusted, and who strongly approved of Guido from the first.
There was a little bench near the edge of the wood where I was accustomed to rest after dinner; we met here regularly, as though by chance. In the morning, music, reading; in the evening, cards with the aunt as in the days of my father; and she always there, smiling, her presence filling my heart. By what road, O Providence! have you led me? What irrevocable destiny am I to accomplish?
'What shall we do with them to-morrow? cried Nelly in alarm, coming to sit down again by the fire and taking up her knitting. How strange it was after that moment of tempestuous emotion to have fallen back within a few minutes into this familiar, intimate chat! Her pulse was still rushing. She knew that something irrevocable had happened, and that when she was alone, she must face it.
Meantime, was not Flora acting with exemplary judgment and self-denial? So she wrote that she could not come home; Margaret was much disappointed, and so was Meta, who had looked to Ethel to unravel the tangles of her life. "No, no, little miss," said Flora to herself; "you don't talk to Ethel till your fate is irrevocable. Why, if I had listened to her, I should be thankful to be singing at Mrs.
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