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'You would do wisely to accept her kindness, argued Henry. 'It would be a great advantage to you to be intimate with a lady of her opportunities. 'I do not like patronage, said Averil. 'Ave! Ave! cried the children, who had been trying to attract her attention, 'if you will let us go to Laburnum Grove by twelve o'clock to-morrow, Mis.
For he was as furious at having committed himself to himself, as he was at his avowal to Averil he, who had always been certain of loving so wisely and so well, choosing an example of the true feminine balance of excellence, well born, but not too grand for the May pretensions; soundly religious, but not philanthropically pious; of good sense and ability enough for his comfort, but not of overgrown genius for his discomfort; of good looks enough for satisfaction, but not for dangerous admiration; of useful, but not overwhelming wealth; of creditable and not troublesome kindred that he should find himself plunged headlong into love by those brown eyes and straight features, by the musical genius, talents anything but domestic, ill-regulated enthusiasm, nay, dislike to himself, in the very girl whose station and family he contemned at the best, and at the very time when her brother was a convict, and her sisters dependent!
He paused in his walk with an awkward sense of having spoken unadvisedly. "Of course," he said, with a boyish effort to recover his ground, "it has to be done. Someone must do the dirty work. But that doesn't make you like the man who does it a bit the better. One wouldn't brush shoulders with the hangman if one knew it." Averil was standing still. Her hands were clenched.
"No?" said Averil indifferently. "And, why, please do you call him a monster?" Steele laughed a little. "Didn't you know?" he said. "Why, he is the King of Evil in these parts!" Averil felt her face slowly flushing. "I don't understand," she said. "Don't you?" said Steele. "Honestly now?" The flush heightened. "Of course I don't," she said. "Otherwise why should I tell you so?"
Gertrude was greatly amused with her account of the marriage, in the sitting-room at Massissauga, and of Tom's being so unprepared for the brevity of the American form, that he never knew where he was in the Service, and completed it with a puzzled 'Is that all? Averil had, according to Ella, been infinitely more calm and composed.
They went down softly, Mab and all, nursed up the fire that Henry had raked out; and if Saturnalia could be held over the writing out of a hymn tune, they did it! At any rate, it had the charm of an assertion of independence; and to Averil it was something like a midnight meeting of persecuted Christians to Leonard it was 'great fun. That evening was not a solitary specimen.
"You shall never regret it, my darling," he said. "You have turned my world into a paradise. I will do the same for yours." "It doesn't take much to make me happy," Averil said, leaning her forehead against his shoulder. "I hope you will be a kind master, Dick, and let me have my own way sometimes." "Master?" scoffed Derrick, kissing her hair.
Five months had elapsed since the arrival of Averil in Massissauga months of anxiety and disappointment, which had sickened Henry of plans of farming, and lessened his hopes of practice. The same causes that affected him at New York told in Indiana; and even if he had been employed, the fees would have been too small to support the expense of horses.
'People don't propose such guerdons without knowing who is to earn them. 'Yes, she has long believed in King John, said Ethel. Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness. She told Mary that she had resolved that she would never again contend with Henry, but would let him do what he would with herself and her sisters.
'I assure you, if you would persuade him to talk it over with me, that I could show him that he would involve you all in what would be most distasteful. 'Thank you, but his mind is made up. No other course is open. 'Could he not, at least, go and see what he thinks of it, before taking you and your sisters? 'Impossible! said Averil. 'We must all keep together; we have no one else.
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