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And now my love, God bless you!" She then embraced her, and went on; Cecilia, at a motion of Dr Lyster's, forbearing to follow her. "And thus," cried she, when they were gone, "thus ends all my connection with this family! which it seems as if I was only to have known for the purpose of affording a new proof of the insufficiency of situation to constitute happiness.
Cecilia, glad of an opportunity to be gone, left the room, and sent, by Dr Lyster's desire, for the physician and surgeon who had already attended.
My brother-in-law adores my sister, makes a great point of his fidelity, because before his marriage he was always flaunting some painted female, without which possession, a few years ago, a San Franciscan felt that he would lose the respect of his fellow-citizens. But Lyster's reform makes him as exacting as a Turk.
In the dusk of the large, heavily furnished room, the pale yet brilliant gold of her hair, her white dress, her slim energy and elegance drew all their eyes even Mary Lyster's. "I must," Ashe repeated, smiling. "I am glad your headache is so much better." "It is not in the least better!" "Then you disguise it like a heroine."
Each meanwhile was conscious of a secret range of thoughts hers concerned with the effort and struggle, the bitter disappointments and disillusions of the past six weeks; and his with the schemes he had cherished in the East and on the way home, of marrying Mary Lyster, or more correctly, Mary Lyster's money, and so resigning himself to the inevitable boredoms of an English existence.
When Delvile heard this, he could no longer endure even his post upon the stairs; he spent his whole time in wandering about the streets, or stopping in Dr Lyster's parlour to enquire if all was over.
That the rich heiress who forgot her wealth and became the artist's wife, would be honored wherever her name was known. They intoxicated her with romance, they bewildered her with flattery. And she was only seventeen, with no mother to speak one warning word to her. She pledged herself to be Allan Lyster's wife when she came of age.
She turned provokingly to Cliffe. "There's quite half an hour, isn't there, before one need dress " "More," said Cliffe. "Come along." And he made for the door, which he held open for her. It was now Mary Lyster's turn to flush the rebuff had been so naked and unadorned. Ashe rose as Kitty passed him. "Why don't you come, too?" she said, pausing.
"Polly! tell me " Lady Tranmore gripped Miss Lyster's hand with some force "are you going to marry him?" "Not that I know of," was the smiling reply. "Don't you think I'm old enough by now to have a man friend?" "And you expect me to be civil to him!" "Well, dear Cousin Elizabeth you know you never did break with him, quite."
The speaker raised her handsome shoulders; then, as though to shake off thoughts of loss and grief which had suddenly assailed her, she abruptly changed the subject. "Well work or no work the first thing we've got to do is to marry him." She looked up sharply. But not the smallest tremor could she detect in Mary Lyster's gently moving hand. There was, however, no reply to her remark.
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