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"Oh! so that's it. Has anybody else been gossiping?" "I do wish you wouldn't you wouldn't take things so coolly!" cried Augustina. "I tell you, the least trifle is enough to do a young girl of your age harm. Your father would have been so annoyed." "I don't think so," said Laura quietly. "But who is it now? The Reverend Mother?" Augustina hesitated.
Nikolai Artemyevitch used to hint at this fact in justification of his intimacy with Augustina Christianovna. She had never reproached him to his face, but she complained of him secretly to every one in the house in turn, even to her daughter. Anna Vassilyevna did not care for going out, she liked visitors to come and sit with her and talk to her; she collapsed at once when she was left alone.
Loram's by stating that her name was Augustina Gwendoline Dobbs, and that she was housemaid to Mr. George Hurst, of "The Poplars," Eltham. "Mr. Hurst lives alone, I believe?" said Mr. Loram. "I don't know what you mean by that," Miss Dobbs began; but the barrister explained: "I mean that I believe he is unmarried?" "Well, and what about it?" the witness demanded tartly.
She was staying the night in the village, and there was literally nothing for me to do but come home with Hubert or to throw myself on some stranger." "And such stories as one hears about this dreadful young man!" cried Augustina. "I dare say. There are always stories." "I couldn't even tell you what they are about!" said Augustina. "Your father would certainly have forbidden it altogether."
Even now, with Augustina, he was short. "I shall take no vows, dear, before the time. But it would please me it would console me if you would put all these things out of your head. I see the will of God very plainly. Let us submit to it." "It hurts me so to see you suffer!" she said, looking at him piteously. He bent over the grass, struggling for composure.
Helbeck on the best of terms? Was not Augustina quite pleased quite content? "I always knew, my dear Laura, that you and Alan would get on, in time. Why, anyone could get on with Alan he's so kind!" When these things were said, Laura generally laughed. She did not remind Mrs.
He has lost all love for me. He says hard things to me even. He judges me like like a stranger." She looked at Augustina imploringly through her tears. "Did he scold you just now about the relic? But it was because it was you. Nobody else could have made him angry about such a thing. Why, he would have just laughed and pitied them! you know he would. But you oh, Laura, you torture him!"
"Oh! let me go," she cried, flinging his hand away from her. "Let me go!" And before he could stop her, she had fled to the door, and disappeared. Helbeck and Augustina ate a lonely dinner. "You must have taken Laura too far this afternoon, Alan," said Mrs. Fountain fretfully. "She says she is too tired to come down again to-night so very unlike her!"
It would be different if she cared for any of his interests but I often think she hates the orphans! She is really naughty about them. And then the Sisters oh dear!" Augustina gave a worried sigh "I don't think the Reverend Mother can have managed it at all well."
Augustina fell into a maze of rather miserable cogitation. She recalled her brother's manner and words after his return from the station on the night of the expedition and then next day, the news! and Laura's abrupt admission: "I met him in the garden, Augustina, and well! we soon understood each other. It had to come, I suppose it might as well come then.
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