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'I have been allowed to say nothing, said Belton; 'those people have said eight, and so it is settled. When are you coming over to see Mary? To this question he got no definite answer, and as he went away immediately afterwards he hardly seemed to expect one. He did not even ask for Mrs Askerton, and as that lady remarked, behaved altogether like a bear. 'But what a munificent bear! she said.
But she saw nothing and heard nothing, and so returned into the hall, slowly shutting the door. 'I knew that he would come, she said, repeating to herself the same words over and over again. Yet when Mrs Askerton had told her that he would do this thing which he had now done, she had expressed herself as almost frightened by the idea. 'God forbid, she had said.
After all, what did the feeling of the world signify to them, who were going to be all the world to each other? On that afternoon she went up to Mrs Askerton's; and succeeded in getting advice from her also, though she did not show Will's letter to that lady. 'Of course, I know what he says, said Mrs Askerton. 'Unless I have mistaken the man, he wants to be married tomorrow.
She did write not on that day or on the next, but before a week had passed by. She wrote to Norfolk, telling Clara not a word of her letter, and by return of post the answer came. But the answer was for Clara, not for Mrs Askerton, and was as follows: 'Plaistow Hall, April, 186 . 'My dear Clara,
'I do not blame you for anything that has taken place, but I am quite sure of this that you and I could never be happy together as man and wife. 'I do not know why you say so; I do not indeed. 'You would disapprove of everything that I should do. You do disapprove of what I am doing now. 'Disapprove of what? 'I am staying with my friend, Mrs Askerton. He felt that this was hard upon him.
She felt that she was acting almost falsely in going on with such questions, while she was in fact aware of all the circumstances which Mrs Askerton could tell but she did not know how to declare her knowledge and to explain it. She sincerely wished that Mrs Askerton should be made acquainted with the truth; but she had fallen into a line of conversation which did not make her own task easy.
'I know when a man is at ease like a gentleman, and when he is awkward like a 'Like a what? said Clara. 'Finish what you've got to say. 'Like a ploughboy, I was going to say, said Mrs Askerton. 'I declare I think you have a spite against him, because he said you were like some Miss Vigo, replied Clara, sharply.
But, in truth, she hardly knew which was the man she loved! This letter came on a Sunday morning, and on that day she and Belton went to church together. On the following morning early he was to start for Taunton. At church they saw Mrs Askerton, whose attendance there was not very frequent. It seemed, indeed, as though she had come with the express purpose of seeing Belton once during his visit.
If you will do that, and will keep Mr William Belton out of my way during his visit to these parts, I shall be satisfied. For some time past Mrs Askerton had been walking about the room, but, as she now finished speaking, she sat herself down as though the subject was fully discussed and completed.
Then they walked on together for a while without speaking, and Clara was beginning to feel some relief some relief at first; but as the relief came, there came back to her the dead, dull, feeling of heaviness at her heart which had oppressed her after his visit in the morning. She had been right, and Mrs Askerton had been wrong.
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