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She persisted in her determination; she cast off all thoughts of ministering like an angel, or revenging like a demon; she enjoyed the gaieties with which the youth of Radstowe amused itself during the summer months; she accompanied her aunts to garden parties, ate ices, had her fortune told in tents, flirted mildly and endured Charles Batty's peculiar half-apprehensive tyranny.
To sit frequently for an hour at a time, as Thomas did, listening with attention to Mrs. Batty's talk of her own and her son's ailments, was in itself a marvel of charity. This evening she met him as he entered, and lighted him into his room. 'There's a letter come for you, Mr. Bird. I put it down somewheres why, now, where did I ? Oh, 'ere it is.
"Quite right, me man," said a cool voice at Curly's side, and a hand fell on his shoulder as a tall form loomed up in the crowd. "There's good matayrial in you, me bully. Hould yer position, an' be sure that Batty's with you, at the laste. Fair play's a jule, an' it's fair play we're goin' to have here."
A shudder passed through Charles Batty's big frame and the words, 'Don't marry him, reached her ears like a distant muttering of a storm. 'You would not be happy. 'What has happiness to do with it? she asked with an astonishing young bitterness. 'Ah, if you feel like that, he said, 'if you feel as I do about you, if nothing he does and nothing he says
Batty's flowers. 'Yes, dear, do. Charles, take her to your father. Mrs. Batty was very hot; it would be a relief to her to heave and sigh alone. Charles rose and advanced, stooping a little, carrying his arms as though they did not belong to him and, in the hall, beside one of the gleaming statues, he paused. 'I've offended you, he said miserably. 'I make mistakes somehow. Nobody explains.
Batty's slightly ironical smile and his references to expense, she had controlled herself; among her acquaintances it was necessary to treat the affair as a mere bagatelle; but with Henrietta she could expand unlimitedly.
'Charles, she said in rather a high voice, 'did you find your hat and stick that night? 'What? Oh, yes, and then irrelevantly he added, 'I've just been made a partner. 'Really? She was always interested in practical things. 'In Mr. Batty's firm? How splendid! I didn't know you were any good at business. 'I've been improving, and you don't know anything about me.
He had a dreary fancy for looking at the camp, and living over again those days when he was still young and a fool, of course; but not so great a fool as now, with Lily living in a little flat in Mercer. Batty's lease had expired, and she had moved into a cheaper, but still ornate, apartment house on the other side of the river. Well!
Franklin looked twice to see if there was affectation in this calm statement, but was forced, with a certain horror, to believe that his new acquaintance spoke of this as a matter of fact, and as nothing startling. He had made no comment, when he was prevented from doing so by the exclamation of the cowboy, who pointed out ahead. "There's Batty's place," said he, "an' there's Batty himself.
She was a stout woman. All my side runs to stoutness, but Mr. Batty's family are like hop-poles. Well, I believe it's healthier, and I must say the boys take after him. Now I fancy you're rather like Miss Rose. 'They say I am just like my father. Mrs. Batty said 'Ah! with meaning, and Henrietta tried to sit straighter on the seductive settee. She could not allow Mrs.
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