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"Laughter," observed Fred, when he could make himself heard, "is among the simplest forms of argument. Does this merry outburst imply that you don't care a button whether you are able to get some one to marry you or not?" "It does," said Algitha.
Algitha and Hadria felt uneasy when they were away, even for a moment, from the sick-room, but the doctor reminded them of the necessity, for the patient's sake as well as their own, of keeping up their strength. He warned them that there would be a long strain upon them, and that any lack of common sense, as regards their own health, would certainly diminish the patient's chances of recovery.
"If life is like that," she said at length, drawing a long breath, "nothing on this earth ought to persuade us to forego it; no one has the right to hold one back from its possession." "No one," said Hadria; "but everyone will try!" "Let them try," returned Algitha defiantly.
"I go twirling things round and round in my head till I grow dizzy. But you compare ideas with fact; you even turn ideas into fact; while I can get no hold on fact at all. Thoughts rise as mists rise from the river, but nothing happens. I feel them begin to prey upon me, working inwards." Algitha shook her head. "It is a mad world," she said.
Fred glared enquiry. "I am afraid she has been led into accepting Hubert Temperley." Fred opened his mouth and breathed deep. "Stuff! Hadria would as soon think of selling her soul to the devil." "Oh, she is quite capable of that too," said Algitha, shaking her head. "Well, I'm blowed," cried Fred. Not long after this, the guests began to disperse. Mrs.
The arrival of the post was always an exciting moment. At last Hadria wrote to ask Algitha to try and sell for her a spray of diamonds, worth about eighty pounds. Time must be gained, at all hazards. Algitha tried everywhere, and enquired in all directions, but could not get more than five-and-twenty pounds for it.
"How can a man suppose that one girl is going to be different from every other girl?" asked Fred. "Different, you mean, from what he supposes every other girl to be," Algitha corrected. "It's his own look-out if he's such a fool." "I believe Hadria married because she was sick of being the family consolation," said Ernest. "Well, of course, the hope of escape was very tempting.
The members of the society continued to pine for information, and Miss Temperley endeavoured to provide it, till late into the night. The discussion finally drifted on to dangerous ground. Algitha declared that she considered that no man had any just right to ask a woman to pledge herself to love him and live with him for the rest of her life. How could she?
"Her failure with my brothers, was in the department of manners," Hadria observed. "Then she does not know what you talk about?" persisted Henriette. "You ask her," prompted Fred, with undisguised glee. "She never attends our meetings," said Algitha. "Well, well, I cannot understand it!" cried Miss Temperley. "However, you don't quite know what you are talking about, and one mustn't blame you."
As Hadria stood admiring the glow of the now fully-risen sun, upon the wall of rock that rose beyond the opening of the tunnel which she had just passed through, she heard footsteps advancing along the riverside path, and guessed that Algitha and Ernest had come to fetch her, or to join in any absurd project that she might have in view.
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