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Finlay had proposed an earlier date, but matters of business connected with her mother's estate would delay Miss Cameron's departure. Her arrival would be the decisive point of another campaign. He and Advena faced it without misgiving, but there were moments when Finlay greatly wished the moment past.
And the Murchisons had descended to face the situation. Lorne had by then done his part, and gone out into the chromatic possibilities of the day; but the sense of injury he had communicated to Advena in her bed remained and expanded. Lobelia, it was felt, had scurvily manipulated the situation her situation, it might have been put, if any Murchison had been in the temper for jesting.
They were expecting him that evening at Dr Drummond's, and there it was his intention to go. But on his way he would call for a moment to see Advena Murchison. He had something to tell her.
In discussing unions harmonious and inharmonious he digressed into an invective against marriages of Powers, when not in accordance with certain conditions; and complained that France entered into such unions prolific only of ill, witness her gift of sovereign power to a Sicilian stranger. 'Trinacriis devectus ab oris advena. Mazarin, though born at Rome, was of Sicilian family.
To the minister they were mere forcible words; to Finlay they were soft rain in a famished land. Then he looked again heavily at the pattern of the carpet. "Would you have me marry Advena Murchison?" he said, with a kind of shamed yielding to the words. "I would and no other. Man, I saw it from the beginning!" exclaimed the Doctor. "I don't say it isn't an awkward business.
Secretly he and Advena took up boards in more than one unused room, and rapped on more than one thick wall to find a hollow chamber; the house revealed so much that was interesting, it was apparent to the meanest understanding that it must hide even more.
I am going to look in at the Milburns', Advena. Good night, Mr Finlay." Advena, walking on with Finlay, became suddenly aware that he had not once addressed her. She had the quick impression that Lorne left him bereft of a refuge; his plight heartened her. "If the politicians on both sides were only as mutually appreciative," she said, "the Empire would soon be knit."
River Street isn't East Elgin, but it is that way, and it would be a great deal pleasanter for for her." "I must consider that, of course. You haven't been in them? I should hope for a bright sitting-room, and a very private study." If Advena was aware of any unconscious implication, the pair of eyes she turned upon him showed no trace of satisfaction in it. "No, I haven't.
"I hope you understand," said Lorne, with an effort at heartiness, "how glad my parents will be to have you if you find yourself able to spare us any of your time?" "Thanks very much," said Hesketh; "I shall certainly give myself the pleasure of calling as soon as possible." "Dear me!" said Dr Drummond. "Dear me! Well! And what does Advena Murchison say to all this?"
Yet he had the hardihood to ring, and the hour blessed them both, for Advena on the stair, catching who knows what of presage out of the sound, turned, and found him at the threshold herself. "I understand how you must feel in the matter, Murchison, said Henry Cruickshank.
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