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And thus she plods along in life, differing eventually only from his mistress in that she is the mother of his children. In all Richard's longings, too, for Alice Westmore, there was an unconscious cause. He did not know it because he could not know. Sooner or later love, which is loose, surfeits and sours.
Supposing that the incredible happened, that his reasons prevailed with his wife, and, through her, with the others at what cost would the victory be won? Would Bessy ever forgive him for winning it? And what would his situation be, if it left him in control of Westmore but estranged from his wife?
You see, self isn't a thing one can keep in a box bits of it keep escaping, and flying off to lodge in all sorts of unexpected crannies; we come across scraps of ourselves in the most unlikely places as I believe you would in Westmore, if you'd only go back there and look for them!"
From the moment of turning her back on Westmore, and establishing herself in the pretty little house at Hanaford which her son's wife had placed at her disposal, Mrs.
Langhope's party had left Mount Desert but three days previously, the arrival of the unknown at Hanaford showed a singular impatience to rejoin Miss Brent. As he reached this point in his meditations, Amherst found himself at the street-corner where it was his habit to pick up the Westmore trolley.
His special training, and the natural bent of his mind, qualified him, in what had once seemed a predestined manner, to help Bessy to use her power nobly, for her own uplifting as well as for that of Westmore; and so the mills became, incongruously enough, the plank of safety to which both clung in their sense of impending disaster.
But where was he to begin? How give her even a glimpse of the packed and intricate situation? "Mrs. Westmore," he said, "there's no time to say much now, but before we get to the mills I want to ask you a favour. If, as you go through them, you see anything that seems to need explaining, will you let me come and tell you about it tonight?
She listened, but with a griping, strained heartache, listened to a dying confession from the pale lips, and the truth for the first time came to Alice Westmore, and kneeling, she could not rise, but bent again her head and heard the pitiful, dying confession.
He had in his mother an example of the mind accessible only to concrete impressions: the mind which could die for the particular instance, yet remain serenely indifferent to its causes. To Mrs. Amherst, her son's work had been interesting simply because it was his work: remove his presence from Westmore, and the whole industrial problem became to her as non-existent as star-dust to the naked eye.
He seized my arm and fairly shook me, big as I was, in the urgence of his desire. He was rapidly losing all control and caution. "Let him have it, sir," urged Westmore in a whisper. "I'll free the young lady." I gave Brower the hypodermic case. He ran to the wash bowl for water. During the process of preparation he uttered little animal sounds under his breath.
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