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If she had known that he was speeding in his automobile toward her home she would have taken less comfort in her quiet afternoon. "Bella, dear, do you think you'd better go?" said her mother. "Harry seems so anxious about it, and she knows him better than we do. Hadn't you better tell you have an engagement, and then take me out for a little walk?"
Bella knew that Lizzie's father had been falsely accused of the crime which had had so great an influence on her own life and fortunes; and her interest, though it had no secret springs, like that of the Secretary, was equally natural. Both had expected to see something very different from the real Lizzie Hexam, and thus it fell out that she became the unconscious means of bringing them together.
"There you now," she said, in a confidential whisper and with a nudge on Gethin's canvas bag, "there you are now; fool that you are! giving such a thing as that to Bella Lewis! What did you pay for it, Gethin? Shall I have it if I can get it from her? Why did you give it to her? you said 'twas for little Morva "
'Having tacitly consented, said Mrs Wilfer, with a grand shrug of her shoulders, and another wave of her gloves, 'to my child's acceptance of the proffered attentions of Mrs Boffin, I interpose no objection. Here Miss Bella offered the remonstrance: 'Don't talk nonsense, ma, please. 'Peace! said Mrs Wilfer. 'No, ma, I am not going to be made so absurd. Interposing objections!
You'll have to spend the night somewhere at the station. What will they think? They will be anxious, Bella and Hugh." "But what can they think?" Her cheeks were unexplainably scarlet. "If I choose to trust you to take care of me, why should they grumble? And I won't have to spend the night. You don't know how strong I am. I'm very strong. I don't feel tired. We'll go back by moonlight.
Crump. "If she wants a new frock, let her have it; as for the sheets and tablecloths, you'd better keep them yourself. But Bella must have the rest." It was found on the eve of the day on which she was told that she was to depart that she had in truth armed herself with a dagger or clasp knife. She actually displayed it when her uncle told her to come away from the chest on which she was sitting.
He felt too strongly to say much to his wife, who, indeed, had suffered quite enough already; and the sting of it all his growing fear of Du Meresq's influence over Cecil he was not disposed to confide to her. "I have been too careless," he reflected, "and I cannot trust Bella, who will never see a fault in her brother.
Gentlemen and Bella and John my love to you, and may we meet, as on the present occasion, on many future occasions; that is to say, gentlemen and Bella and John on many happy returns of the present happy occasion.
The children had both to recognize again and again how well their parents were looking; Tom had to tell his father about the condition of 'Every Other Week'; Bella had to explain to her mother how sorry her husband was that he could not come on to meet them with her, but was coming a week later to take her home, and then she would know the reason why they could not all, go back to Chicago with him: it was just the place for her father to live, for everybody to live.
She with two children and a helpless man would have gone on and left anyone to his fate. She did not say this, but Susan, with intelligence sharpened by a jealous passion, felt that there was no need to defend her husband's action. As for the rest of the world deep in her heart she had already decided it should never know. "You couldn't have done anything else," said Bella.
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