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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I'll soon set that right. My dear friend, Percy Linwood; my dear friend, Arthur Bervie be known to each other! esteem each other!" Captain Bervie acknowledged the introduction by a cold salute. Percy, yielding to the good-natured impulse of the moment, alluded to what had happened in Doctor Lagarde's consulting-room.
At the same moment, Charlotte whispered to her mother: "Don't encourage him to prolong his visit." The Captain showed no intention to prolong his visit. To Charlotte's surprise, when he took leave of the ladies, Percy also rose to go. "His carriage," he said, "was waiting at the door; and he had offered to take Captain Bervie back to London."
I can see that she has lovely dark-brown eyes. She has the look of a sensitive nervous person. She is quite young. I can see no more." "Look again at the man who is putting the ring on her finger," said the Captain. "Are you sure that the face you see is the face of Mr. Percy Linwood?" "I am absolutely sure." Captain Bervie rose from his chair. "Thank you, madam," he said to the Doctor's mother.
They had been ten, twenty, thirty times round; they had never stopped to rest like other dancers; they had centered the eyes of the whole room on them including the eyes of Captain Bervie without knowing it; her delicately pale complexion had changed to rosy-red; the neat arrangement of her hair had become disturbed; her bosom was rising and falling faster and faster in the effort to breathe before fatigue and heat overpowered her at last, and forced her to say to him faintly, "I'm very sorry I can't dance any more!"
'I am no longer the rival who hates you, he said. 'Give me time to try if change of scene will quiet my mind; and I will be your brother, and her brother. Whatever his faults may be, Charlotte, Arthur Bervie has a great heart. Go in, I entreat you, and be friends with him as I am." Charlotte listened with downcast eyes and changing color. "You believe him?" she asked in low and trembling tones.
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