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Brahan's drawing-room, I was in a kind of somnambulism, moving, walking, seeing, yet hardly conscious of what I was doing, or what was passing around me. She was the president of the association, and a very charming woman.
After leaving Madge, instead of going to the lady's, at whose house the society met, I ordered the coachman to drive to one of the fashionable stores and leave me. "Return in an hour," said I, as I left the carriage. "You will find me at Mrs. Brahan's. Drive the horses out to the Battery for exercise, as you usually do."
I was anxious he should go immediately to Mr. Brahan's; for, added to my desire to be under the influence of her feminine regard, I cherished a faint hope that through him I might learn something of Ernest's mysterious exile. They both returned with Richard; and while Mr.
Tell me, for I am not a man to be tampered with, as you will find to your cost." "I cannot answer when addressed in such a tone. Oh, I cannot." "Gabriella! this is not a moment to trifle. Tell me, without prevarication, were you, or were you not in the Park, walking with a gentleman, on the morning you left for Mrs. Brahan's? Answer me, yes, or no."
"What would she say, if she knew I had parted with her splendid gift, unknown to my husband, whose happiness she committed so solemnly to my keeping?" I told Ernest of the interesting circumstances connected with Mr. Brahan's house, and of the picture of my mother I so longed that I should see. The wish was gratified sooner than I anticipated; for that very evening, it was sent to me by Mr.
Then it recurred to me; but it did not seem possible that it could interest or affect me much, though it might my brother. I have not spoken of Mrs. Brahan's children, because I have had so much to say of others; but she had children, and very lovely ones, who were the crowning blessings of her home.
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