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"They tell me that it comes from the Baron's vineyard," said Trevelyan, alluding to the wine-farm of Ricasoli, "and that there is none better in Tuscany. I never was myself a judge of the grape, but this to me is as palatable as any of the costlier French wines. How grand a thing would wine really be, if it could make glad the heart of man.
There was an attempt at joviality about this breakfast, or, at any rate, of the usual comfortable luxury of hospitable entertainment, which, coming as it did from Trevelyan, almost locked his lips. He had not come there to be jovial or luxurious, but to perform a most melancholy mission; and he had brought with him his saddest looks, and was prepared for a few sad words.
Nora understood it all now; and though she became almost breathless, she was not surprised, when Hugh got up from his chair and asked her sister to go away. "Mrs. Trevelyan," he said, "I want to speak a few words to your sister. I hope you will give me the opportunity." "Nora!" exclaimed Mrs. Trevelyan. "She knows nothing about it," said Hugh. "Am I to go?" said Mrs. Trevelyan to her sister.
On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon Street, he had told Stanbury that Trevelyan had just gone off in a huff, which was true enough, and he had walked from thence down Clarges Street, and across Piccadilly to St. James's Street, with a jauntier step than usual, because he was aware that he himself had been the occasion of that trouble.
"But how; in what words; how am I to speak it?" "Say that you have sinned; and that you will sin no more." "Sinned, Louis; as the woman did, in the Scripture? Would you have me say that?" "He cannot think that it is so," said Lady Rowley. But Trevelyan had not understood her. "Lady Rowley, I should have fancied that my thoughts at any rate were my own. But this is useless now.
Trevelyan did nothing, and attempted to do nothing, that could injure his wife and child. He submitted himself to medical advice. He did not throw away his money. He had no Bozzle now waiting at his heels. He was generally passive in his wife's hands as to all outward things. He was not violent in rebuke, nor did he often allude to their past unhappiness.
"I do not like to blame my brother," said Priscilla, "because he has done his best to be good to us all; and the punishment will fall heaviest upon him, because he must pay for it." "He should not be allowed to pay a shilling," said Mrs. Trevelyan. Then the morning came, and at seven o'clock the two sisters, with the nurse and child, started for Lessboro' Station in Mrs.
The ship sails on Saturday." "I will go as a matter of course," said Hugh. "I will start at once, at any time. To tell the truth, when I got Lady Rowley's note, I thought that it was to be so. Trevelyan and I were very intimate at one time, and it may be that he will receive me without displeasure." There was much to be discussed, and considerable difficulty in the discussion.
Trevelyan was left with her boy, and during the day she was forced to resolve what should be the immediate course of her life. Two days after the wedding her family would return to England. It was open to her to go with them, and to take her boy with her. But a few days since how happy she would have been could she have been made to believe that such a mode of returning would be within her power!
Trevelyan heard what had been done, which she did from Mrs. Prodgers herself, Mrs. Prodgers having been desired by her master to make the communication, she declared to her sister that everything was now over. She could never again live with a husband who had disgraced his wife by desiring her own cook to keep a guard upon her.
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