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'And I think, she said artificially, 'I should choose this one as a matter of mere personal whim, which, of course, can't be given way to when practical questions have to be considered. Cytherea, after looking out of the window, and then at the newspapers, had become interested in the proceedings between the clever Miss Aldclyffe and the keen old lawyer, which reminded her of a game at cards.
'But your mother knew what was right, I suppose? 'I have no mother, madam. 'Your father, then? 'I have no father. 'Well, she said, more softly, 'your sisters, aunts, or cousins. 'They didn't think anything about it. 'You didn't ask them, I suppose. 'No. 'You should have done so, then. Why didn't you? 'Because I haven't any of them, either. Miss Aldclyffe showed her surprise.
Miss Aldclyffe is the woman our father first loved, and I have come to Miss Aldclyffe's; you can't get over that. From these premises, she proceeded to argue like an elderly divine on the designs of Providence which were apparent in such conjunctures, and went into a variety of details connected with Miss Aldclyffe's history.
It was late when Miss Aldclyffe descended to the breakfast-table and then she seemed there to no purpose; tea, coffee, eggs, cutlets, and all their accessories, were left absolutely untasted. The next that was seen of her was when walking up and down the south terrace, and round the flower-beds; her face was pale, and her tread was fitful, and she crumpled a letter in her hand.
Banished as I was from your house at dawn, I did not suppose the indignity was about to lead to important results. But in crossing the park I overheard the conversation of a young man and woman who had also risen early. I believe her to be the girl who has won you away from me. Well, their conversation concerned you and Miss Aldclyffe, very peculiarly.
The matter was too slight to reason about, and yet upon the whole it seemed that Miss Aldclyffe must have a practical reason for concealing her neck.
'Don't let a word be said till the wedden is over, for Heaven's sake, the clerk continued. 'Miss Aldclyffe would fairly hang and quarter me, if my news broke off that there wedden at a last minute like this. 'Then you had better get your wife to bolt you in the closet for an hour or two, for you'll chatter it yourself to the whole boiling parish if she don't! 'Tis a poor womanly feller!
But, strangely to Cytherea, Miss Aldclyffe looked delighted. The usual cross-examination followed. 'And so you were with him all that time? said the lady, with assumed severity. 'Yes, I was. 'I did not tell you to call at the Old House twice. 'I didn't call, as I have said. He made me come into the porch. 'What remarks did he make, do you say?
'And you refused him? 'Yes. 'Tut, tut! Now listen to my advice, said Miss Aldclyffe emphatically, 'and accept him before he changes his mind. The chance which he offers you of settling in life is one that may possibly, probably, not occur again. His position is good and secure, and the life of his wife would be a happy one.
'It is how I do my own, said Cytherea naively, and with a sweetness of tone that would have pleased the most acrimonious under favourable circumstances; but tyranny was in the ascendant with Miss Aldclyffe at this moment, and she was assured of palatable food for her vice by having felt the trembling of Cytherea's hand. 'Yours, indeed! Your hair!
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