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Deronda would like me to do," said Mirah, gravely, seeing that Mrs. Meyrick looked toward her; and Hans, turning on his heel, went to Kate's table and took up one of her drawings as if his interest needed a new direction. "Shouldn't you like to make a study of Klesmer's head, Hans?" said Kate. "I suppose you have often seen him?"
Meyrick, with all her quickness and loving insight, did not quite understand that filial feeling in Mirah which had active roots deep below her indignation for the worst offenses.
One day he inquired for her, and heard, to his no small satisfaction, she had driven to Mrs. Meyrick's, with a box of things for Mr. Bassett. She stayed at the farmhouse all day, and Sir Charles felt sure he had done the right thing. Mrs. Meyrick found out to her cost the difference between a nursling and a rampageous little boy.
Meyrick, who, in her way, was as much interested as Mab in the hints she had been hearing of vicissitude in in the life of a widow with daughters.
"How you did sit upon me at Cannes!" And again his brilliant eyes, fixed upon her, seemed to be saying all sorts of unspoken things. "How has he been behaving lately?" said Constance drily, turning to Lord Meyrick, who stood grinning. "Just as usual! He's generally mad. Don't depend on him for anything. But I hope you'll let me do anything I can for you! I should be only too happy."
Charles Munro and Bessie Stewart, to sail for Europe in ten days, ask of their friend Fanny Meyrick her warm congratulations." "Will that do?" I whispered as I handed the book to Bessie. "Not at all," said Bessie scornfully and coldly, tearing out the leaf as she spoke and crumpling it in her hand. "Sorry to spoil your book, Fanny dear, but the sentiment would have spoiled it more.
Meyrick, who was sitting gasping, by a superhuman effort of will mastered himself enough to give directions for a strong opiate. Benson managed to control the madman while Robert found it. Then between them they got it swallowed. But nature had been too quick for them.
'Meyrick puts it cautiously, but it may be the end! Catherine looked at him in despair. 'Robert, you are like a ghost yourself, and I have sent for Dr. Edmondson. 'Put him off till the day after to-morrow. Dear little wife, listen; my voice is ever so much better. Murewell air will do me good. She turned away to hide the tears in her eyes. Then she tried fresh persuasions, but it was useless.
Meyrick, and asked if he could come to any arrangement with her to lodge Mr. Bassett and his nurse under her roof. "The boy wants change of air," said he. Mrs. Meyrick jumped at the proposal, but declined all terms. "No," said she, "the child I have suckled shall never pay me for his lodging. Why should he, sir, when I'd pay you to let him come, if I wasn't afeard of offending you?"
Such friendship easily becomes tender: the one spreads strong sheltering wings that delight in spreading, the other gets the warm protection which is also a delight. Meyrick was going in for a classical scholarship, and his success, in various ways momentous, was the more probable from the steadying influence of Deronda's friendship.