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'I waited out of bed till you came up, she said, 'it being your first night, in case you should be at a loss for anything. How have you got on with Miss Aldclyffe? 'Pretty well though not so well as I could have wished. 'Has she been scolding? 'A little. 'She's a very odd lady 'tis all one way or the other with her. She's not bad at heart, but unbearable in close quarters.
'Do you still wish to go? said Miss Aldclyffe anxiously. 'I don't want to go now, Cytherea had remarked simultaneously with the other's question. She was pondering on the strange likeness which Miss Aldclyffe's bereavement bore to her own; it had the appearance of being still another call to her not to forsake this woman so linked to her life, for the sake of any trivial vexation.
Their patient had been pronounced out of danger. Cytherea went to the bedside, and was instantly recognized. O, what a change Miss Aldclyffe dependent upon pillows! And yet not a forbidding change. With weakness had come softness of aspect: the haughtiness was extracted from the frail thin countenance, and a sweeter mild placidity had taken its place. Miss Aldclyffe signified to Mr.
Then the fire went out: he did not see it. His feet grew cold; still he thought on. It may be remarked that a lady, a year and a quarter before this time, had, under the same conditions an unrestricted mental absorption shown nearly the same peculiarities as this man evinced now. The lady was Miss Aldclyffe. It was half-past twelve when Manston moved, as if he had come to a determination.
Sometimes Miss Aldclyffe appeared to be on the point of making some absorbing confidence, but reflection invariably restrained her. Cytherea hoped that such a confidence would come with time, and that she might thus be a means of soothing a mind which had obviously known extreme suffering. But Miss Aldclyffe's reticence concerning her past was not imitated by Cytherea.
"The world and its ways have a certain worth, And to press a point where these oppose Were a simple policy." 'But I will say nothing about who influenced who persuaded. The act is mine, after all. Edward, I married to escape dependence for my bread upon the whim of Miss Aldclyffe, or others like her.
I don't know what we should have done if Miss Aldclyffe had insisted upon the conditions of the leases. Your brother-in-law, the steward, had a hand in making it light for us, I know, and I heartily thank him for it. He ceased speaking, and looked round at the sky. 'Have you heard o' what's happened? he said suddenly; 'I was just coming out to learn about it. 'I haven't heard of anything.
On Sundays, in her pew, when by chance she turned her head, Cytherea found his eyes waiting desirously for a glimpse of hers, and, at first more strangely, the eyes of Miss Aldclyffe furtively resting on him. On coming out of church he frequently walked beside Cytherea till she reached the gate at which residents in the House turned into the shrubbery. By degrees a conjecture grew to a certainty.
'No indeed I'll stay always. Do you like me to stay? Miss Aldclyffe in the jaws of death was Miss Aldclyffe still, though the old fire had degenerated to mere phosphorescence now. 'But you are your brother's housekeeper? 'Yes. 'Well, of course you cannot stay with me on a sudden like this.... Go home, or he will be at a loss for things.
Considerable preference will be shown for one who possesses an artistic as well as a practical knowledge of planning and laying out. The remuneration will consist of a salary of 220 pounds, with the old manor-house as a residence Address Messrs. Nyttleton and Tayling, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn Fields. A copy of each paper was sent to Miss Aldclyffe on the day of publication.
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