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His stars, which were generally very good to him, had not perhaps on this occasion been as good as usual. No doubt he had to a certain degree become encumbered with Clara Amedroz. Had not the direct and immediate leap with which she had come into his arms shown him somewhat too plainly that one word of his mouth tending towards matrimony had been regarded by her as being too valuable to be lost?
Such had been the thoughts and desires, mixed in their nature and militating against each other, which had induced him to offer his first visit to his cousin's house. We know what was the effect of that visit, and by what pleasant scheme he had endeavoured to overcome all his difficulties, and so to become master of Belton that Clara Amedroz should also be its mistress.
'I wish I could go down to receive him, said Mr Amedroz, plaintively. 'I hope he won't take it amiss. 'You may be sure he won't do that. 'Perhaps I can tomorrow. 'Dear papa, you had better not think of it till the weather is milder. 'Milder! how is it to get milder at this time of the year? 'Of course he'll come up to you, papa. 'He's very good. I know he's very good.
And, in the case of this boy and girl, the misfortune was aggravated greatly by the peculiarities of the father's character. Mr Amedroz was not a bad man as men are held to be bad in the world's esteem. He was not vicious was not a gambler or a drunkard was not self-indulgent to a degree that brought upon him any reproach; nor was he regardless of his children.
'Miss Amedroz should lay her commands upon him, said Sir Anthony gallantly. 'Nonsense, said Lady Aylmer.
'My dear fellow, you must know that that wouldn't do. He then said, 'You ought to feel that it wouldn't do you ought indeed. 'Why shouldn't my sister receive Miss Amedroz as well as that old woman down in Yorkshire? 'If I may tell you, I will. 'Of course you may tell me.
Lady Aylmer kept her chair, and even maintained her stitch, till Clara was half across the room. Then she got up, and with great mastery over her voice, made her little speech. 'We are delighted to see you, Miss Amedroz, she said, putting out her hand of which Clara, however, felt no more than the finger. 'Quite delighted, said Belinda, yielding a fuller grasp.
Clara was there with him, but she had shown herself in the pew for four or five weeks before this. She had not been at home when the fearful news had reached Belton, being at that time with a certain lady who lived on the farther side of the county, at Perivale a certain Mrs Winterfield, born a Folliott, a widow, who stood to Miss Amedroz in the place of an aunt.
When we buckle on our armour in any cause, we are apt to go on buckling it, let the cause become as weak as it may; and Clara continued her intimacy with Mrs Askerton, although there was something in the lady's modes of speech, and something also in her modes of thinking, which did not quite satisfy the aspirations of Miss Amedroz as to a friend.
'I suppose now, my dear, it may be considered that everything is settled about that young lady, said Lady Aylmer to her son, on the same day that Miss Amedroz left Aylmer Park. 'Nothing is settled, ma'am, said the captain. 'You don't mean to tell me that after what has passed you intend to follow her up any farther. 'I shall certainly endeavour to see her again.
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