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He came like a little angel of delight, in one way; the real, heart way; but another, the practical way of day's doing and ordering, he came like a little Hun, overrunning and devastating everything. While Rosamond had been up-stairs, and Mrs. Waters had been nursing her, and Miss Arabel coming in and out to see that all was straight below, it had been lovely; it was the peace of heaven.
Arabel talks of going to see you; but if you are sensible to this intense and most overcoming heat, you will pardon her staying away for the present.
My heart was like stone. I remembered all my wrongs; I said to myself this was the man who had made my life a shipwreck, and had sent my soul to perdition. He stood still, frozen to the spot, gazing into my face with eyes that gleamed through the gloom like lurid fire. 'I am Arabel Vere, whom you thought you murdered! I hissed in his ear. 'The river could not hold my secret!
The splashing of the ferry-boat was once more heard, and then the shop quaked a little as a heavy foot alighted on the landing-stage. The ferryman was heard saying: "I don't know any party of that name, but I believe the young woman at the shop can help you." Lady Arabel Higgins entered the shop. "What, Meta, you here? And Sarah Brown? What a too dretfully funny coincidence.
Henrietta and Arabel and I are the only guardians just now of the three youngest boys, the only ones at home: and I assure you, we have not too little to do. They are no longer little boys.
"Ah, Miss Brown.... I was just looking about...." Sarah Brown sat gasping on the counter, and the rest of the party re-entered the Shop, bringing the lantern. "How very absurd all this is," said Miss Ford nervously, "taking such a great deal of trouble about a necessitous case." "America is in my mind," said Lady Arabel. "If we could get her there.
All the Waites between them had dropped away, out of the world, or into homes here and there of their own, and Arabel and Delia were left together in the square, low, gambrel-roofed house over on the other hill, where the town ran up small. Arabel Waite was an old dressmaker.
He left his doctor who had given him lowering medicines, and, coincidently with the leaving, he has recovered looks and health altogether. Arabel says that I should think he was looking as well as ever, if I saw him, and that appetite and spirits are even redundant. Thank God.... To have this good news has made me very happy, and I overflow to you accordingly.
When all that was needful at Casa Guidi had been done, Browning's first thought was to abandon Italy for many a year, and hasten to London, there to have speech for a day or two at least with Mrs Browning's sister Arabel. "The cycle is complete," he said, looking round the sitting-room of Casa Guidi. "I want my new life," he wrote, "to resemble the last fifteen years as little as possible."
Is there a hereafter, and does a man sell his soul to damnation who commits what the world calls murder?" He stopped under a lamp and drew out his pocket-book, taking therefrom a soiled scrap of paper. "Yes, I have it here. 'Found drowned, the body of a woman. Her linen was marked with the name of Arabel Vere. Another unfortunate No, I will not read the rest.
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