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There was something in these last quiet colours that gave her a setting and a supremacy; and the twilight, which concealed Diana's statelier figure and Rosamund's braver array, exhibited and emphasized her, leaving her the lady of the garden, and alone. When they spoke at last it was evident that a conversation long fallen silent was being revived.
She had never dreamt of being an artist, but, showing some facility with the pencil, was sent by her father to South Kensington, where she met and made friends with Rosamund Elvan. Her necessity and her application being greater than Rosamund's, Bertha before long succeeded in earning a little money; without this help, life at home would scarcely have been possible for her.
'He is quite bent upon this Election? 'Yes, madam. I am not, as you can suppose, in his confidence, but I hear of him from Dr. Shrapnel. 'Your uncle? 'I call him uncle: he is my guardian, madam. It is perhaps excuseable that this communication did not cause the doctor to shine with added lustre in Rosamund's thoughts, or ennoble the young lady. 'You are not relatives, then? she said.
He is the villain! Let him live, for he too comes of blood and bone. He shall not grind the faces of the poor and helpless that's all. The comicality of her having such remarks addressed to her provoked a smile on Rosamund's lips. 'Don't go at him like Samson blind, said Mr. Lydiard; and Miss Denham, who had returned, begged her guardian to entreat the guest to stay.
He looked at her as if he were going to speak, but he said nothing. He felt that if he answered she would not understand, and her face made him doubtful. Which view of life was the right one, Rosamund's or Cynthia Clarke's? Rosamund had been pitiless to him and Cynthia Clarke was merciful.
"It's too difficult I can't get it right " What his glance discovered on the block did not strengthen Will's confidence in Rosamund's claim to be a serious artist. He had always taken for granted that her work was amateurish, and that she had little chance of living by it.
Madame will have my room; clear away every sign of me there. I sleep out; I can find a bed anywhere. And bolt and chain the house-door to-night against Cecil Baskelett; he informs me that he has taken possession. Rosamund's countenance had become less austere.
"To stay quietly by myself," was Rosamund's answer, "so for goodness' sake don't interfere with me, Janey. I am going to my room, to begin with. I want to have a good long think, and But don't question me, and keep the others away won't you? there's a dear." Jane promised readily enough, and Rosamund went to her room.
But Rosamund's voice was audible in a monologue, and Miss Ingate trembled for Audrey and for the future. "This is the most important political movement in the history of the world," Rosamund was saying, not at all in a speechifying manner, but quite intimately and naturally.
Still, he did not wish quite to give up the hope that something might happen to make their life more splendid. He said to himself that it was only for Rosamund's sake he hoped this. Perhaps that was the reason he hoped it so much. The path down to the river was narrow and winding; it lay between hawthorn hedges white with blossoms.
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