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Consequently he was not a little surprised and greatly pleased to sit and listen to a class of music that he had never before heard rendered in country places; but, as he listened for Adelaide's singing in chorus, duet, and solo, he found himself wondering whether the eye or the voice more clearly revealed the soul.
Baxter must have felt herself revenged by the complete surprise of Adelaide's tone.
"Think not?" was Adelaide's reply; and then she whipped her ponies and said no more. "Why does Miss Birkett hate me?" asked Leam when Edgar came back. "Because Shall I tell you?" he answered with a look which she could not read. "Yes, tell me." "Because you are more beautiful than she is, and she is jealous of you.
But yet he knew himself to be a backward, slow, unappreciative man. He was one who could bear reproach from no one else, but who never praised himself even to himself. But we must return to his love, which is that which now concerns us. His mother and sisters altogether failed to persuade him. Week after week he went over to Baronscourt, and at last threw himself at Adelaide's feet.
A very long silence, then out of the darkness came Adelaide's voice, even, but puzzling. "Well, Artie, I've made up my mind to marry. I've got to do something, and Dory'll give me something to do. If I sat about waiting, waiting, and thinking, thinking, I should do something desperate. I've got to get away from myself. I've got to forget myself. I've got to get a new self."
Roused from his moodiness by the darkness, he went downstairs, met the old admiral on the way, looked darkly at him as he bowed, and fled. He had intended going in to see the ladies, but the sight of Adelaide's protector froze his heart and dispelled his purpose.
She had found a blessed refuge from her perplexities in the stolid Adelaide's unawareness. One could so absolutely count on Miss Painter's guessing no more than one chose, and yet acting astutely on such hints as one vouchsafed her! She was like a well-trained retriever whose interest in his prey ceases when he lays it at his master's feet.
"You are in my charge, Miss Dundas, and I can give you up to no one else not even by your own desire." Adelaide's slight cast became an unmistakable squint; the Fairbairn girls fluttered, half frightened at the chance of a fracas; Alick looked irresolute; Edgar looked haughty and displeased; Leam tragic and proud, partly bewildered, partly distressed.
I shall never meet him again, except in Adelaide's presence. He will not want to meet me. You may be at ease about that. To-morrow all will be well, and Adelaide very happy, "He shrugged his shoulders, and reached for his coat and hat. As he was putting them on, I said, 'Don't forget to harness up Jenny. Jenny is the grey mare. 'And leave off the bells, I urged.
"The instant the cries lessened, Adelaide gave the sign to Argirio, and they took up the duo, 'Splenda terribile, before the orchestra, equally electrified with the audience, were prepared for it, so that Adelaide's clear ringing 'Mi' soared out like a mellow violoncello note, and she sang the three following measures unaccompanied.
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