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The end of it was that I left the house pledged to keep Lucilla in ignorance of the cost at which Oscar had determined to purchase his cure, until Oscar thought fit to enlighten her himself. Good Papa again! THE promise I had given did not expose me to the annoyance of being kept long on the watch against accidents.
"I am sorry, very sorry to disappoint you, my young friend; but I cannot grant your request. Lucilla is but a child yet a mere school-girl; and such I intend to keep her for some six years or more to come. I have no objection to you more than to any other man, but cannot consent to allowing her to be approached on that subject until she reaches much more mature years."
He appeared to me to be too indolent to make a proper effort to better his own condition. Lucilla and I had more than one animated discussion about him. On a certain evening when we were at the piano gossiping, and playing in the intervals, she was downright angry with me for not sympathizing with her darling as unreservedly as she did.
It was the evening before Godolphin left Rome. As he was entering his palazzo he descried, in the darkness, and at a little distance, a figure wrapped in a mantle, that reminded him of Lucilla; ere he could certify himself, it was gone.
"Can you teach me the method?" asked Lucilla, gravely. "All that relates to the art I can," rejoined the mystic: "but the chief and main power rests with thyself. For know, my daughter, that one who seeks the wisdom that is above the earth must cultivate and excite, with long labour and deep thought, his least earthly faculty."
Dickory and Lucilla cautiously peeped over the rail, Dickory without his hat, and Lucilla, hiding herself, all but a part of her face, behind him; the Manders crouched together on the deck, the father with glaring eyes and a knife in his hand. The crew stood, with their hats removed and their chins lowered, waiting for what might happen next.
"Here is your dinner, Lucilla," he said, speaking in a quiet, grave tone, as he set the salver on a little stand in a corner between the windows; "unless you are ready to obey me. In that case, I shall take you down to your mamma, and when you have begged her pardon and told me you are sorry for your rebellious words and conduct toward me, you can eat your dinner with us."
And now, among the unwaving pines, there was a silver shimmer as the moon rose into her empire, and deepened at once, along the universal scene, the loveliness and the awe. Lucilla turned from the window, and kneeling down wrote with a trembling hand upon the figure one word the name of Godolphin. She then placed it under her pillow, and the spell was concluded.
Wappinger answered, with decision; "a tay antime, as the French say. I shall have these two Eveleths or whatever their name is Lucilla van Tromp, and Derek and Dorothea Pruyn." "You may accomplish the first and the last. You'll find it difficult to fill in the middle. To say nothing of the old girl, Derek Pruyn is too busy for teas intime, or otherwise."
As if this was not enough, in ran Celia quite out of breath "Oh, Lucilla," cried she, "papa and mamma won't let you go with Charles, though I told them you begged and prayed to go." Lucilla, the pink of whose cheeks was become crimson, said angrily, "How Celia! what do you mean?"
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