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Some of the others had come out, for there were voices in the gloom. "Perhaps you wonder why I brought you here," Clare said frankly. "No," Dick answered. "If you had any reason, I'm not curious. And I'd rather be outside." "Well," she said, "the light was rather glaring and the room very hot." She paused and added: "Mr. Brandon's your cousin?" "He is, and a very good sort.
"We went to the Circus, and at present she is at Miss Brandon's Academy." He was surprised by the sudden concern on his cousin's handsome, florid countenance. "By heaven, Jasper," the lawyer exclaimed, "am I to understand that you took a well, an illegitimate child, to Miss Brundon, left her in the School? It's it's incredible." "Why not?"
I should sit still and smile when such dishonor and such ruin are coming to a house over which my mother has presided! No; far be it from me ever to be so selfish! I shall oppose Miss Brandon's plans with all my strength and all my energy." "She may triumph, after all." "She shall not triumph over my resistance and my contempt. Never do you hear me, Daniel? never will I bow down before her.
This time Beatrice would not let Brandon row while the sun was up. They rowed at night, and by day tried to get under the shadow of the shore. At last a wind sprang up; they now sailed along swiftly for two or three days. At the end of that time they saw European houses, beyond which arose some roofs and spires. It was Sierra Leone. Brandon's conjectures had been right.
"I am not sorry to see you alone," he replied, "for I have a good deal to say to you. This living of Colonel Brandon's can it be true? has he really given it to Edward? I heard it yesterday by chance, and was coming to you on purpose to enquire farther about it." "It is perfectly true. Colonel Brandon has given the living of Delaford to Edward." "Really!
However, "this call" had the effect of making the "called one" a finished sinner, and of filling up the measure of wretchedness to his wife. All this was preparatory to an event, to me of the utmost importance, which is, perhaps, at this very moment, influencing imperceptibly my mind, and directing my character. Brandon's call, in our humble circle, made a great deal of noise.
"And no one inquires where they come from?" "From her sainted father's petroleum-wells, my dear fellow. Petroleum explains everything." Brevan seemed to feel a kind of savage delight in seeing Daniel's despair, and in explaining to him most minutely how solidly, and how skilfully Miss Sarah Brandon's position in the world had been established.
He had a harsh and dictatorial way of giving orders very different from Brandon's and Phillips's pleasant manner and he consequently had never been well served. His men had been the first to leave at the time of the diggings, and the consequences had been most disastrous.
"Colonel Brandon's character," said Elinor, "as an excellent man, is well established." "I know it is" replied her mother seriously, "or after such a warning, I should be the last to encourage such affection, or even to be pleased by it. But his coming for me as he did, with such active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men."
Elinor derived no comfortable feelings from this conversation, to lessen the uneasiness of her mind on other points; she was left, on the contrary, with a melancholy impression of Colonel Brandon's unhappiness, and was prevented even from wishing it removed, by her anxiety for the very event that must confirm it.
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