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Well, brother, she told me all this; and, moreover, that when Mrs. Hearne heard of it, she said that a dream of hers had come to pass. I don't know what it was, but something about herself, a tinker, and a dean; and then she added, that it was all up with her, and that she must take a long journey. Well, brother, that same night Leonora, waking from her sleep in the tent, where Mrs.
She would speak suddenly about Florence to the girl and he would not start in the least; he would not even pay attention, but would sit with bloodshot eyes gazing at the tablecloth. He drank a good deal, at that time a steady soaking of drink every evening till long after they had gone to bed. For Leonora made the girl go to bed at ten, unreasonable though that seemed to Nancy.
Leonora perhaps thinks that she loves her husband; and no doubt she does so in a conjugal sort of a way: he has loved his wife; but be it mine to prove that his heart is suited to far other raptures; and if Olivia be called upon for sacrifices, Olivia can make them.
She cut out poor dear Edward from sheer vanity; she meddled between him and Leonora from a sheer, imbecile spirit of district visiting. Do you understand that, whilst she was Edward's mistress, she was perpetually trying to reunite him to his wife? She would gabble on to Leonora about forgiveness treating the subject from the bright, American point of view.
As Leonora was on the point of leaving the house, the situation was somewhat awkward, and a slight hesitation on her part showed this. 'You're going out? he said. 'Oh, mamma, Milly cried quickly, 'do let me go and meet father instead of you. I want to. 'What, alone? Leonora exclaimed in a kind of dream. 'I'll go too, said Ethel. 'And suppose you have the horse down?
L , and my conscience reproaches me terribly with being a party concerned in it; for in this country an affair of gallantry between married people is not so light a thing as with us. Here wives sometimes love their husbands seriously, as if they were their lovers; and my Lady Leonora L is one of this sort of wives. She is very unhappy, I am told.
Leonora, who had charge of the meal, was able to give him an affirmative. 'I'm glad as you've come, he said to Twemlow. 'I had a fancy for you to see her again as soon as they told me you was back. Her makes a good corpse, eh? Twemlow agreed. 'To die suddenly, that's the best, he murmured awkwardly; he did not know what to say.
Strange as it may appear, Leonora was perfectly successful; and believing herself to have been the victim of the Chancellor and his party, Marie entered earnestly into the views of her favourite, consenting to withdraw her confidence from Sillery, and to follow thenceforward the counsels of Villeroy and Jeannin.
That worried Leonora very much it worried her dreadfully; she lay awake nights; she had an anxious line round her mouth. And that, again, worried Edward. I do not mean to say that Leonora actually spoke to Edward about his tenants but he got to know that some one, probably her father, had been talking to her about the matter.
"Oh, my dear boy, I hope you don't think it's my fault," said Miss Dora, with tears. "It must have come to this, dear, sooner or later: you see, poor Leonora has such a sense of responsibility; but it is very hard upon us, Frank, who love you so much, that she should always take her own way."
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