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I did not think of committing any indiscretion; I concluded that Adelaide was busy studying; so I took up a book and seated myself comfortably, feeling as well off there as at home. "Presently I heard a brilliant preluding passage on the piano, then Adelaide's glorious voice pronounced that stirring recitative, 'O Patria. This was the passage alluded to by the young dandies in the caffe.
"I drink So deep of grief, that he must only think, Not dare to speak, that would express my woe: Small rivers murmur, deep gulfs silent flow." It was no want of love for his child that had kept Mr. Dinsmore from at once obeying Adelaide's summons. He had left the place where she supposed him to be, and thus it happened that her letters did not reach him nearly so soon as she had expected.
"But " "Isidor, this is the last word. I was at the funeral on Saturday, and met your wife's mother and sister. They do love you, don't they?" Ingerman died game. "If I have your assurance that Mr. Grant is really innocent of Adelaide's death, that is sufficient," he said slowly. "Well, if it pleases you to put it that way, I'm agreeable. Which is your road? Back to the hotel?
If be could not train him in high principles and self-restraint, he would at least be indulgent to the consequences of his own indulgence, and never drive him to those fearful straits. "But he'll be a very different young man from what I was," was his final thought. "Thanks to his good mother." His mind was full of Lady Adelaide's goodness as he entered his house, and she met him in the hall.
"It is a disappointment, but who could refuse such a plea and made in such a voice?" said Edgar, who felt that perhaps she was right in her instinct, and who at all events knew that he should be spared something that would be a slight effort in Adelaide's own house. "I shall spoil you, I know, but I cannot refuse you anything when you look like that.
Poor Adelaide's silence was fully explained later practically explained when in June, returning to London, I was honoured by this admirable woman with an early visit. As soon as she arrived I guessed everything, and as soon as she told me that darling Ruth had been in her house nearly a month I had my question ready. "What in the name of maidenly modesty is she staying in England for?"
He noted that the monkey's ribbon exactly matched the embroidery on Adelaide's dress. "If he were a dog or a cat, you wouldn't mind," she went on. True enough! Clearly, he was unreasonable with her. "Do you want me to send him away?" "I'll get used to him, I reckon," replied Hiram, adding, with a faint gleam of sarcasm, "I've got used to a great many things these last few years."
Her mother, a sweet-faced woman, some years her husband's junior, made sisters of all her daughters, the more naturally perhaps, because the grandmother was still so active and so interested in all phases of homemaking that she seemed mother to them all. Adelaide's two older sisters were married and her brother Charles, also older than herself, by three years, was a senior in college.
To Adelaide's hand Simon Blount came timely and well-trained. At once she set him on Withers, as one would hie on a good dog at a thief; and it was not long before she had the pleasure of seeing the chase brought to the ground. Withers had heard of a graceful neck, and white, dimpled shoulders, at the Athenæum; so accomplished a connoisseur as he must not let them pass unappreciated.
A glance at Ross and he changed his mind; for, Ross was so amazed at Adelaide's thus challenging him it could be nothing more than an audacious challenge that he showed it. "I beg your pardon, old man," Belden said impulsively. "I didn't appreciate that I was making a prying brute of myself."
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