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Other boys soon came flocking around, to whom Oscar explained the cause of the assault; but his antagonist denied all knowledge of the affair for which Oscar had attacked him. An angry war of words ensued, but the excitement finally subsided without any further resort to blows, and Oscar returned home, well pleased with his adventure. One of Oscar's favorite winter amusements was skating.
"My invitation is due to my being a friend of Oscar's." "I was not aware that you danced," said Fletcher who was rather curious on the subject. "I don't much." "Where did you learn in the printing office?" "No, in the city." "Ah! Indeed!" Fletcher thought he had wasted time enough on our hero, and turned again to Maud. "May I have the pleasure of your hand in the second dance?" he asked.
As for Lucilla, she sat in silent happiness, absorbed in the inexhaustible delight of hearing Oscar's voice. She found as many varieties of expression in listening to her beloved tones, as the rest of us find in looking at our beloved face. We had music later in the evening and I then heard, for the first time, how charmingly Lucilla played.
I have no doubt he wagged his head and pursed his lips and looked unutterable things. But really it takes a saint to suffer such fools gladly." I could not help smiling when I thought of the vicar's face, but Oscar's tone was not pleasant. The change in him had gone further than I had feared. He was now utterly contemptuous of criticism and would listen to no counsel.
The lower he sank, the harder his better nature struggled to raise him. I have done: let Lucilla go on again. I have read Oscar's letter once more. He is the soul of honor; he is incapable of deceiving me. I remember saying what he tells me I said, and thinking it too for the moment only when I was beside myself with rage. Still may it not be possible that appearances have misled Oscar?
In measure as I distrusted Oscar's fighting power and admired his sweetness of nature I took sides with him and wanted to help him. One day I heard some talk at the Pelican Club which filled me with fear for him and quickened my resolve to put him on his guard. I was going in just as Queensberry was coming out with two or three of his special cronies.
My explanation, thus offered, had its effect: it set him thinking. "The sound of his voice!" he said to himself, still turning the problem over and over in his mind. "People say my voice is exactly like Oscar's," he added, suddenly addressing himself to me. "Do you think so too?" I answered that there could be no doubt of it.
If you go to your cousin's house, my position imperatively requires that I should go too." Oscar's reception of this proposal confirmed the grave apprehensions with which he had inspired me. He flatly refused to have Mr. Finch for a companion. "Excuse me," he answered shortly. "I wish to go to the house alone."
Peace came as she prayed, and she lay down and slept at last. Directly after dinner Emma and Fani had started on their expedition. They had no trouble to-day in finding their way to the willows, and they went as quickly as they could, so that they could have a long afternoon, and yet get back in time for Oscar's Festival.
The dreadful epileptic malady would torture the patient and shock the friends about him no more: the marriage might safely be celebrated at the time agreed on. Oscar was cured. The doctor's visit reviving our interest in observing the effect of the medicine also revived the subject of Oscar's false position towards Lucilla. Nugent and I held a debate about it between ourselves.
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