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Invited by them to breakfast at the hotel, she hurried back to her villa for a flounced dress and a lace cap of some pretensions, while they paced the shore. "See what may be said!" Adela's countenance changed as she muttered it. "Thought, would be enough," she added, shuddering. "Yes; if one is off guard careless," the captain assented, flowingly. "Can one in earnest be other than careless?
"Of something besides clothes and bonnets," he broke out. Then he was sorry he had spoken. "Well, there's the Louvre," said Polly, after an uncomfortable little pause. "Yes," said Adela, "that's best of all, and it doesn't cost anything; so Mademoiselle takes us there very often." "I should think it would be," cried Polly, beaming at her, and answering the first part of Adela's sentence.
"I'd rather not have my baby, please; I don't want her. Please be all well, Grandpapa, dear." Polly's face appeared over Adela's shoulder. "Don't!" said Adela, shrinking away into the corner of the big sofa, and putting her hands over something she held in her lap. "Excuse me!" exclaimed Polly, tumbling back in amazement. "I wasn't looking. I don't want to see. I only meant to surprise you."
Adela's tone was quite other than she had hitherto used in conversations of this kind. It was submissive, patiently questioning. 'You mustn't misunderstand me, replied the mother with some nervousness. 'The wish, dear, must of course be yours as well. You know that I that I really have left you to consult your own The sentence was unfinished.
It really seemed as if the ague had carried off the last remnants of the illness under which she had been so long labouring. But then, you can never put anything to the experimentum crucis; and there were other causes at work for Adela's cure, which were perhaps more powerful than even the ague.
"Have you found her?" asked Jasper, looking up from the foot of the staircase. "Yes," said Polly, "I have." "All right." And Jasper vanished, and Polly went slowly back, wishing she could be downstairs with all the dear people, instead of trying to comfort this dismal girl. The next moment she was kneeling down by the side of the bed, and trying to get hold of one of Adela's hands.
'Mother! came from Adela's lips, but she checked herself. Mutimer thrust his hands into his pockets and stood smiling. 'Yes, I meant it. 'But, pray, what are you and Adela going to live upon? 'I don't think we shall have any difficulty. 'But surely one must more than think in a matter such as this. You mustn't mind me speaking plainly, Richard.
At Adela's request it had been decided in advance that the final leave-taking should be to-night; she and Mutimer would drive to Agworth station together with Alfred the first thing in the morning. At ten o'clock the parting came. Letty could not speak for sobbing; she just kissed Adela and hurried from the room. Mrs. Waltham preserved a rather frigid stateliness.
Gauntlet's occasionally visited them, and had, indeed, lived there altogether while Adela's education had required it; but this lady preferred her own lodgings at Littlebath, and Adela, therefore, was in general the sole mistress of the parsonage. I beg my reader not to imagine that there had been love-passages between Arthur Wilkinson and Adela Gauntlet: nothing of the sort had occurred.
"Then," she said, "Besworth is not to be thought of. You told him so?" Adela's head drooped. "Oh!" she cried, "what shall we do? We shall be a laughing-stock to the neighbourhood. The house will have to be locked up. We shall live like hermits worried by a demon. Her brogue! Do you remember it? It is not simply Irish. It's Irish steeped in brine. It's pickled Irish!"
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