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"Yes she has been very ill, but is now recovered quite recovered, and with your mother, who is grown fonder of her than ever she was." "Selina alive! well! and with my mother! and may I I don't mean may I now, but may I ever hope? Believe me, I feel myself capable of any exertions, any forbearance, to obtain her forgiveness to merit May I ever hope for it? Speak!"
I have tried going out to look at the shops no! I have tried saying my prayers no! And now I am making my last effort; trying my pen. My black letters fall from it, and take their places on the white paper. Will my black letters help me? Where can I find something consoling to write down? Where? Where? Selina poor Selina, so fond of me, so sorry for me. When I was happy, she was happy, too.
Everybody seemed to be up but Aunt Selina, and they were all talking at once. Anne Brown was in the corner of the group, waving her hands, while Dallas was trying to hook the back of her gown with one hand and hold a blanket around himself with the other.
I simply must rest and take care of myself." She was somewhat surprised at his simplicity in believing her health was anything but robust, when her appearance gave the lie direct to her hints and regrets. While he was off with one of the guides she stayed at camp, reading, working at herself with the aid of Selina, revolving and maturing her plans. When she saw him she saw him at his best.
They went to call on Lady Marchmont that day, and, as Marian expected, did not find her at home. Agnes renewed the old lamentation that Marian could not live with her and thus avoid Mrs. Lyddell's finery and fashion. "Now why do you laugh, Marian? you don't mean that Selina Grenville can have turned into a fashionable lady? she was the simplest creature in the world."
But gradually Elizabeth, too, copying involuntarily the rest of the family, learned to put up with Miss Selina; who, on her part, kept a sort of armed neutrality.
'Where does your Aunt Selina live? asked Miss Rosina, looking a great deal more pleased than Jimmy felt. He put his small hands together behind his back, and took a step closer. 'Please, he said, 'I I don't want to go to Aunt Selina's. 'Tell me where she lives, answered Miss Rosina. 'I think it's somewhere called Gloucester Place, said Jimmy; but, please, I'd rather not go.
The mind is the danger for her. If she has a mind alive, she will certainly push for the position to exercise it, and run the risk of a classing with Nature's created mates for reptile men. Besides, Lady Ormont appeared, in the company of her friend Selina Collett, not worse than rather too thoughtful; not distinctly unhappy. And she was conversable, smiling.
The letter she had in her head went out like a flame in the wind and her only thought now was to telegraph to Selina the first thing in the morning, in quite different words. She scarcely spoke to Miss Steet and there was very little the governess could say to her: she had already related her history so often.
Miss Vincent's discovery, in the past school-days, of Selina Collett's 'wicked complicity in a clandestine correspondence' had memorably chastened the girl, who vowed at the time when her schoolmistress, using the rod of Johnsonian English for the purpose, exposed the depravity of her sinfulness, that she would never again be guilty of a like offence.
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