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Hasn't he taken occasion yet to inform you that your life is conducted on an utterly mistaken principle, that you are shallow and inefficient, that you are worse than useless in the world, and ought, if properly constituted, to be a torment to yourself? None of these things he has said? Oh, then you are not admitted to Mr. Athel's intimacy; you are not of the inner circle.
But I think you remember that I was a friend of the Athels. I am come with Mr. Athel's leave Mr. Wilfrid. Emily was agitated and could not smooth her features. 'Oh, don't think I bring you bad news! pursued the other quickly, leaning a little forward and again raising her eyes. She had dropped them on the mention of Wilfrid's name. 'I have come, in fact, to put Mr.
One night, in the middle of the third winter after Athel's disappearance, Philip Lee called with an important lease for Mr. Kurston to sign. He found him alone, and strangely moved and sorrowful. He signed the papers as Philip directed him, and then requested him to lock the door and sit down. "I am going," he said, "to confide to you, Philip Lee, a sacred trust.
'Rather than you should think I run away from Mr. Athel's high censure certainly. Then she became silent, and shortly left the room. Mrs. Baxendale sat by herself musing. She was a woman given to thoughtfulness, for all that she used her tongue freely when with those she liked.
Wilfrid was mysterious; for a week he kept his counsel, and behaved as if nothing unusual had happened. By that time Mr. Athel's patience had reached its limit; he requested to be told how matters stood. Wilfrid, determined not to compromise his dignity by speaking first, but glad enough when his father broached the topic, related the story of his visit to Dunfield.
'If you knew how it has flattered me! Beatrice continued, with a semblance of light-hearted goodness which her hearer had no thought of criticising. 'It is the final proof of Mr. Athel's good opinion. You know his poor opinion of conventional people and conventional behaviour. He is determined that no one shall be told till till after Wednesday making me the sole exception, you see.
But her wits had, as you see, come to her rescue. 'Mr. Athel's opinions on that subject are not likely to offend me, Beatrice replied, with the shadow of a smile. 'I am so afraid lest he should suspect anything of the kind. I am sure it would grieve him dreadfully. The girl laughed outright, though not with much joyousness. 'Mr. Athel be grieved for such a cause!
'No doubt we can. It's only the facing of my aunt's drawing-room on a Sunday afternoon. 'O, surely that is needless, Wilfrid? Couldn't we go and see her quietly? She would be at home in the morning, I should think. 'I should think so. We'll make inquiries to-night. They left home early in the afternoon and procured tickets on their way from the station to Mr. Athel's.
Such a proceeding was so at variance with Mr. Athel's views of life that it made him seriously uncomfortable. It suggested criminality, or at least lunacy, both such very unpleasant things to be even remotely connected with. Poverty he could pardon, but suicide was really disreputable.
Emily was more perplexing to her now than even at the time of Wilfrid Athel's rejection. She consoled herself with the thought that a period of active occupation was no doubt the best means of restoring this complex nature to healthy views of life; that at all events it was likely to bring about an unravelling of the mysteries in which her existence seemed to have become involved.
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