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Time was against him and love, and time would probably win. 'When I went away from the first Avice, he continued with whimsical misery, 'I had a presentiment that I should ache for it some day. And I am aching have ached ever since this jade of an Ideal learnt the unconscionable trick of inhabiting one image only. Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on.
At the top of a low hill he paused and looked about him, recognizing the scenes from the descriptions which Avice had given him in her letters. There was Wraye itself a big, old-world place, set amongst trees at the top of a long park-like expanse of falling ground; hills at the back, the sea in the far distance.
To do so, however, without wishing at least the elder Avice good-bye would be unfriendly, considering the extent of their acquaintance. One evening, knowing this time of day to suit her best, he took the few-minutes' journey to the rock along the thin connecting string of junction, and arrived at Mrs. Pierston's door just after dark. A light shone from an upper chamber.
Poor Avice! she knew no better. She had been taught that the Lord who died for her was a stern, angry Judge, and that all the mercy rested in His human mother. And the Jews had crucified Christ; so, thought Avice, He must hate them! Perhaps, of such Christians as she was, He may have said again, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Hester came in quietly.
She knew from experience that he would be deaf, for the moment, to anything less than an alarm of fire. When he had lovingly consumed the last morsel he awoke to her presence and smiled benignantly. "My dear, don't fail to try them, they're exquisitely perfect!" "You really must talk to Avice," his wife replied. Mr. Milbrey sighed, deprecatingly.
It was not till October that they met again. Maude fancied that Avice eschewed any renewal of intercourse with her. She kept herself strictly secluded in the chamber which had been allotted to the nuns; and since Maude had no power to pass beyond the door of the guard-room, the choice lay in Avice's own hands. At neither of the subsequent interviews was she present.
But Avice had been weak enough, as her mother knew, to indulge in fancies for local youths from time to time, and Mrs. Pierston could not help congratulating herself that her daughter had been so docile in the circumstances. Yet to every one except, perhaps, Avice herself, Jocelyn was the most romantic of lovers.
"Why, Avice, where hast thou been?" says the elder of the two women. "I was coming, Grandmother," explains little Avice, "and Father Thomas called me, and bade me tell you that the holy Bishop would come to see you this afternoon, and sup his four-hours with you." Four-hours, taken as its name shows at four o'clock, was the meal which answered to our tea.
'I suppose you'll marry some day, Avice? remarked Pierston, as he regarded her thoughtfully. 'Some do and some don't, she said, with a reserved smile, still attending to the casts. 'You are very offhand, said he. She archly weighed that remark without further speech.
Avice never thought of its not being right to go to Church such a figure, and now she finds that papa thinks the command to "have power on her head" really may apply to that sort of fashion, we are going to contrive something for Sunday, but it could not be done in time for to-day. Besides, she had no dress but a serge."
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