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Her mind was divided between the most contradictory impulses and attractions. How had it come about, she asked herself, after a while, that she was listening like this to his schemes for his children and his new orphanage? she, and not his natural audience, the two priests and Augustina.
Helbeck, who would allow nobody to help him in the task. The conversation dragged. Laura and her host talked a little about the country and the weather. Father Bowles and Augustina tried to pick up the dropped threads of thirteen years; and Mrs. Fountain was alternately eager for Whinthorpe gossip, or reduced to an abrupt unhappy silence by some memory of the past.
Fountain shook with the emotion of saying such things to Laura, but her blue eyes flamed. "What! fish and eggs? that kind of thing?" said Laura. "As if there was any hardship in that!" "Laura! how can you be so unkind? I must just keep it all to myself. I won't tell you anything!" cried Augustina in exasperation.
A message had been sent on to her an hour before to the effect that Miss Fountain had missed her train, and was not likely to arrive that night. "Oh, Alan! where is she?" "I got a telegram through to the station-master. Don't be anxious, Augustina. I asked him to direct her to the inn. The old White Hart, they say, has passed into new management and is quite comfortable.
We ought to be for Augustina's sake. And I very much want to discuss with you seriously what I have to say." He obeyed her. He came to sit beside her, recovering his composure bending forward that he might give her his best attention. She paused a moment knitting her brows. "I thought afterwards, a long time, of what had happened. I talked, too, to Augustina.
And as soon as it appeared that her papa liked Augustina, and had a use for her, Laura at the age of eight promptly accepted her as part of the family circle, without the smallest touch of either sentiment or opposition. She walked gaily hand in hand with her father to the registry office at St. Bees. The jealously hidden, stormy little heart knew well enough that it had nothing to fear.
"Of course, if your mother were to think such things and to say them to me every time I went to Bannisdale, I couldn't stay. But I want to see Augustina very, very much." Her voice wavered. "And I could easily go to her if I were close by when she was alone. And of course I should be no expense. Your mother knows I have my own money." Hubert nodded.
Helbeck's exertions, which lay half-way between Bannisdale and Whinthorpe. They had not long arrived, and were now waiting for Rosary and Benediction in the chapel before they were admitted to the tea which Mrs. Denton and Augustina had already spread for them in the big hall. At sight of the children Helbeck's face lit up and his step quickened.
Kindly tell her, Augustina, that I will let her have the key of it. And kindly tell her also as from yourself, of course that she will be treating us all with courtesy if she does come home at a reasonable hour. We have been a very quiet, prim household all these years, and Mrs. Denton, for all her virtues, has a tongue." "So she has," said Augustina, sighing.
No doubt her relations were vulgar, low-born folk! but she did not ask Mr. Helbeck or her stepmother to entertain them. At last there had been a passage of arms between her and her stepmother. Perhaps Mr. Helbeck had overheard it, for immediately afterwards he had emerged from his study into the hall, where she and Augustina were sitting.
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