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"Besides," Lorne confessed, "I expect it was easier to like him when you were inclined to like everybody. A person feels more critical of a visitor, especially when he's had advantages," he added honestly. "I expect we don't care about having to acknowledge 'em so very much that's what it comes to." "I don't see them," said Advena.
Hugh Finlay, who had come to return Sordello, which he had borrowed from Advena, and to find out whether she thought with him about the interpretation of certain passages, and if not there was always the possibility wherein their divergence lay.
"I want to tell you I have to tell you something about myself, Miss Murchison." "I should like," said Advena steadily, "to hear." "It is a matter that has, I am ashamed to confess, curiously gone out of my mind of late I should say until lately. There was little until lately I am so poor a letter writer to remind me of it. I am engaged to be married!" "But how interesting!" exclaimed Advena.
"What novelist?" Advena asked, with shining interest. "Some novelist. I I can't have invented it," he replied, somewhat confounded. He got up and walked to the window, where it stood open upon the verandah. "I don't write novels," he said. "Perhaps you live them," suggested Advena. "I mean, of course," she added, laughing, "the highest class of fiction." "Heaven forbid!" "Why Heaven forbid?
He looked at her for an instant in dumb bewilderment, though her words were simple enough. Then as she made a step away from him he caught her hand. "Advena," he faltered, "what has happened to us? This time I cannot let you." "Lorne," said Dora Milburn, in her most animated manner, "who do you think is coming to Elgin? Your London friend, Mr Hesketh!
She had never seen an Oxford don, but Mr Finlay wore the characteristics these schoolmen were dressed in by novelists; and Advena noted with delight the ingenuity of fate in casting such a person into the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church in a young country. She had her perception of comedy in life; till Finlay came she had found nothing so interesting.
And your wife, poor woman, whatever she deserves, it is better than that! My word, if she could choose her prospect, think you she would hesitate? Finlay, I entreat you as a matter of ordinary prudence, go home and break it off. Leave Advena out of it you have no business to make this marriage whether or no. Leave other considerations to God and to the future. I beseech you, bring it to an end!"
Now I expect it's too late, they'll have gone to Liscombe. He rang them up right away, but they had." "Dr Drummond can't stand Liscombe," said Alec, as they all laughed a little at the Doctor's foible, all except Advena, who laughed a great deal. She laughed wildly, then weakly.
"There's no nonsense about it. Advena told me herself this afternoon." "Did she seem put out about it?" "She's not a girl to show it," Mrs Murchison hedged, "if she was. I just looked at her. 'Well, I said, 'that's a piece of news. When did you hear it? I said. 'Oh, I've known it all the winter! says my lady.
Passing a streetlamp, they quickened their steps, looking furtively at the light, which seemed leagued against them with silence. "It seems so extraordinarily far away," said Hugh Finlay, of Bross, Dumfries, at length. "But it will come near," Advena replied. "I don't think it ever can." She looked at him with a sudden leap of the heart, a wild, sweet dismay. "They, of course, will come.
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