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'We must wait, fell from Marian's lips, in the whisper of despair. 'Wait? But how long? he inquired, dispassionately. 'Do you wish to be freed from your engagement, Jasper? He was not strong enough to reply with a plain 'Yes, and so have done with his perplexities. He feared the girl's face, and he feared his own subsequent emotions. 'Don't talk in that way, Marian.
To put it into the village post-office was to expose it to the prying eyes of Miss Nancy Skamp. To send it to Old Fields, by a messenger, was still more hazardous. To slip it into Marian's own hand, he would have to wait the whole week until Sunday and then might not be able to do so unobserved.
"If you harass yourself, you will not live to see her again. Trust in me, John; Marian's safety is as dear to me as it can be to you. I am her sworn friend and brother, her self-appointed guardian and defender. I have skilled agents at work; we shall find her, rely upon it." It was a strange position into which Gilbert found himself drifting; the consoler of this man who had so basely robbed him.
There were three paramount things in Eileen's cosmos that could happen to a girl: She could have lovely clothing. Linda did not have it. She could have money and influential friends. Since Marian's going Linda had practically no friend; she was merely acquainted with almost everyone living in Lilac Valley. She could have a lover. Linda had none. But stay! Eileen's thought halted at the suggestion.
It seems cold-blooded to show no apparent interest, and it might do Arthur good if he should learn that we had been there because of our anxiety and sympathy." "Well, my dear, what you suggest is the natural and loyal course, and therefore outweighs all conventionality in my mind. We'll go after dinner." Marian's doubt as to her reception by Mrs.
And Mistress Marian gazed on her for an instant more, then dashed her aside, and turned towards the cave. "Ernle," she said, "take heart. I will set thee free I, Marian!" But ere her hand did touch the bolt, my lady was upon her like a little tiger, and she wound her hands in Mistress Marian's thick tresses, and dragged her backward.
Marian's dark eyes gave one indignant flash, as she proudly drew up her head, opened her desk, laid her letter on the table before Miss Morley, and slowly walked out of the room; but as soon as she had shut the door, she ran at full speed along the passage to her own room, where, throwing herself on the bed, she gave way to a fit of violent weeping, and sobs which shook her whole frame.
But one thing I will say: If omniscient justice sends me for this to eternal punishment, I can endure it gladly, like a man, knowing that so I have redeemed my Marian's motherless girls from a deadly tyranny." It was the only sentence in which he ever alluded to her. I sat down by his side and watched him closely. Mechanically, methodically, he went on with his dressing.
She was unlike any girl with whom they had hitherto associated, and it was the impulse of both to receive her with unusual friendliness. The habit of reticence could not be at once overcome, and Marian's own timidity was an obstacle in the way of free intercourse, but Jasper's conversation at tea helped to smooth the course of things.
A tear, one of Marian's very reluctant tears, actually rushed from her eye, and with a hard struggle to speak, she said, "Miserable! how can you say so? You are so very kind to me." "And do you not hate us?" said Caroline, with, an arch look of delight, then softened into something of mournfulness.
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