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Marcella gave her water and let her wander, when she had taken off her saddle and bridle. "Suppose you hadn't been able to ride. I didn't think Professors had time for that sort of thing." "Neither did I till a few hours ago," he said, with a short laugh, taking out a cigarette-case and offering it to her. She sat down rather trustfully on a verandah rail Louis had carpentered.
Then, they introduced her with some ceremony to a "lady," who was sitting beside the patient, a long-faced melancholy woman employed at the moment in marking linen handkerchiefs, which she did with extraordinary fineness and delicacy. The patient and her daughter spoke of Marcella to their friend as "the young person," but all with a natural courtesy and charm that could not have been surpassed.
She had been often kind and soft to her neighbours at Mellor, but these dirty, crowded Londoners were another matter. "Where is Daisy?" asked Marcella as Minta was going away with the tea; "she must have come back from school." "Here I am," said Daisy, with a grin, peeping in through the door of the back kitchen. "Mother, baby's woke up."
"A tiresome man wants me on business for a moment," he said; then he dropped his voice a little; "but I have been looking forward to this evening, this chance, for days shall I find you here again in five minutes?" Marcella, who had flushed brightly, said that would depend on the time and Lady Winterbourne. He hurried away with a little gesture of despair. Frank followed him with a sarcastic eye.
I want to go to South America and the Pacific islands. Earwaker has a friend, who has just come back from travel in the tropics; the talk about it has half decided me to leave England. I have been saving money for years to that end. 'You never spoke of it to me, Marcella replied, turning a bracelet on her wrist. 'Should you go alone? 'Of course. I couldn't travel in company.
"You're very foolish if you rescue him, Knollys," she said, with an air of giving impartial advice. "He's not a bit of good. I knew quite well I'd put some of these idiotic men in the sea before I'd done with them." She turned away towards Louis again. He cowered as she came near him. She smiled at him kindly and reassuringly. "Poor little boy! You needn't be frightened of Marcella.
"Has papa been able to do anything for the cottages yet?" "I don't think so," said Mrs. Boyce, calmly. After a minute's pause she added, "That will be for your reign, my dear." Marcella looked up with a sharp thrill of pain. "Papa is better, mamma, and and I don't know what you mean. I shall never reign here without you." Mrs. Boyce began to fidget with the rings on her thin left hand.
On board ship people drift; they drift into flirtation which rapidly becomes either love-making or a sex-problem; they drift into drinking or, if they have no such native weakness, they become back-biting and bad tempered. Marcella found herself drifting like the rest. A letter to Dr.
Marcella was loitering here and there, burying her face in the fragrance of the honeysuckle, or drawing her companion's attention in delight to the glowing clumps of paeonies Hallin hovered round them, now putting his hand confidingly into Tressady's, now tugging at his mother's dress, and now gravely wooing the friendship of a fine St. Bernard that made one of the party.
Still the charm of these open spaces of sky and park, after the high walls and innumerable windows of Brown's Buildings, was very great; Marcella wanted nothing more but to lie still, to dally with a book, to dream as she pleased, and to be let alone. Lady Winterbourne and her married daughter, Lady Ermyntrude, were still out, engaged in the innumerable nothings of the fashionable afternoon.
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