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"It may be true, child. God grant it so," and Mr. Westmore sighed as he turned in at the gate leading to his brother's house. Rifted Clouds Again the next day they both visited the invalid girl. Nellie read to her, while Parson John sat and listened. They were becoming firm friends now, and Doris chatted unreservedly. "I shall tell papa all about you," she said.
He was an incessant boaster, and one day swore that he could out-travel anything on the river, Midnight included. He laid a wager to that effect, which was taken up by Dave Morehouse, who imagined the race would never come off, for Mr. Westmore would have nothing to do with such sport. Old Fraser, therefore, set about to meet Parson John, but for some time had failed to make connection.
'Cicely has just eaten two boiled eggs and a bowl of porridge, and is bearing up wonderfully." She drew Mrs. Westmore persuasively to her feet, but the widow refused to relinquish her hold on her grievance. "You all think I'm extravagant and careless about money," she broke out, addressing the room in general from the shelter of Mrs.
If she cared for his coming only that he might fill a place at a fancy-dress dinner, he would let her see that he had come only because he had to go through the form of submitting to her certain measures to be taken at Westmore. Bessy was beginning to feel the physical reaction of her struggle with the mare.
Not he, for in the love and constancy of Alice Westmore all such things seemed unspeakable insignificance to the glory of that.
The mills were, in fact, the official "platform" on which she had married: Amherst's devoted rôle at Westmore had justified the unconventionality of the step.
She gently freed Cicely's hand, and a moment later, as she sat with bent head and throbbing breast, she heard the child's treble piping out above her: "In my mother's name, I give this house to Westmore." Applause again and then Justine found herself enveloped in a general murmur of compliment and congratulation. Mr.
Westmore, without any experience or any habit of authority, to come here, and at the first glimpse of injustice, to be so revolted that she finds the courage and cleverness to put her little hand to the machine and reverse the engines for it's nothing less that she's done! Oh, I know there'll be a reaction the pendulum's sure to swing back: but you'll see it won't swing as far.
"It's a delusion, a deception," he exclaimed, "to think I can stand by any longer and see things going to ruin at Westmore! If I've made you think so, I've unconsciously deceived us both. As long as you're my wife we've only one honour between us, and that honour is mine to take care of." "Honour? What an odd expression!" she said with a forced laugh, and a little tinge of pink in her cheek.
This being the case, I feel I can afford to interpret in any way I choose the terms of the bargain between myself and Westmore." On reading this, Amherst's mind had gone through the strange dual process which now marked all his judgments of his wife.
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