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And I am glad of it. I'm not like you, Milly; I can't be contented with this life. Miss Barfoot and Miss Nunn are very sensible and good people, and I admire them very much, but I can't go their way. It seems to me that it would be dreadful, dreadful, to live one's life alone. Don't turn round and snap at me; I want to tell you the truth whilst you can't see me.
He made an effort to say something; seemed to abandon it; again tried, and spoke in a thick, unnatural voice. 'Can you honestly repeat to me what Barfoot was saying to-day, when you were on the seat together? Monica's eyes flashed. 'I could; every word. But I shall not try to do so. 'Not if I beseech you to, Monica? To put my mind at rest 'No.
As I have told you before, in talking like that you degrade yourself and insult me. 'I have my faults; I know them only too well. One of them is that I cannot bear you to make friends with people who are not of my kind. I shall never be able to endure that. 'Of course you are speaking of Mr. Barfoot. 'Yes, he avowed sullenly.
Voices in conversation caused Rhoda to look round; Barfoot had already observed the strangers. 'Let us go up on to the higher sand, he said. Without reply Rhoda accompanied him, and for several minutes they exchanged no word. The men, talking and laughing loudly, went by; they seemed to be tourists of a kind that do not often trouble this quiet spot on the coast; their cigars glowed in the dusk.
He has come up, and here I feel convinced he will die. It's a very monstrous thing, but uncommonly like women in general who have got a man into their power. Micklethwaite shook his head. 'You are too hard upon them. You have been unlucky. You know my view of your duty. 'I begin to think that marriage isn't impossible for me, said Barfoot, with a grave smile. 'Ha! Capital!
Miss Barfoot was smiling at this Palladin attitude when a servant announced two ladies Mrs. Smallbrook and Miss Haven. They were aunt and niece; the former a tall, ungainly, sharp-featured widow; the later a sweet-faced, gentle, sensible-looking girl of five-and-twenty.
By-the-bye, you must read the paper we are going to publish; the first number will be out in a month, though the name isn't quite decided upon yet. Miss Barfoot was never in such health and spirit nor I myself. The world is moving! Whilst Miss Madden went into the house to prepare hospitalities, Rhoda, still nursing, sat down on a garden bench.
I have nothing whatever in view, beyond enjoying life. 'At your age? 'So young? Or so old? Which? 'So young, of course. You deliberately intend to waste your life? 'To enjoy it, I said. I am not prompted to any business or profession; that's all over for me; I have learnt all I care to of the active world. 'But what do you understand by enjoyment? asked Miss Barfoot, with knitted brows.
Whatever you both agree upon will satisfy me. So come by all means if you wish. I can have nothing to do with it. You had better write and ask her if she will see you, I should think. Barfoot rose from his seat, and Mary was glad to be released so quickly from a disagreeable situation.
'Miss Barfoot, I am sorry to say, has gone to visit one of our girls who is ill. But I think she will very soon be back. Will you come in? 'Gladly. I had so counted on an hour's talk. Rhoda led him to the drawing-room, excused herself for a few moments, and came back in her ordinary evening dress.
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