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With the utmost delicacy, but with perfect truthfulness at the same time, Carmina revealed to her betrothed husband the serious reasons which had forced her to withdraw herself from his mother's care. Bound to speak at last in her own defence, she felt that concealments and compromises would be alike unworthy of Ovid and of herself.
The two persons addressed waited in silence to hear more. Carmina's head drooped: she looked down. Miss Minerva attentively observed Mrs. Gallilee. "Why am I invited to hear what she has to say about her son?" was the question which occurred to the governess. "Is she afraid that Carmina might tell me about it, if I was not let into the family secrets?" Admirably reasoned, and correctly guessed!
The two girls, in obedience to domestic regulations, were making their midday toilet before dinner. Carmina described her interview with Mrs. Gallilee, and her meeting with Mr. Le Frank. "Don't scold me," she said; "I make no excuse for my folly." "If Mr. Le Frank had left the house, after you spoke to him," Miss Minerva answered, "I should not have felt the anxiety which troubles me now.
We mean the author of the best pieces in the so-called 'Carmina Burana. A frank enjoyment of life and its pleasures, as whose patrons the gods of heathendom are invoked, while Catos and Scipios hold the place of the saints and heroes of Christianity, flows in full current through the rhymed verses.
My children, too my dear good children it's enough to break one's heart think of their being brought up by a mother who could say what she said, and do What will they see, I ask you what will they see, if she gets Carmina back in the house, and treats that sweet young creature as she will treat her?
She has been obliged to give way; and she hates me almost as bitterly, Carmina, as she hates you. "This called to my mind the interruption of the previous night, when Miss Minerva had something important to tell me. When I asked what it was, she shook her head, and said painful subjects of conversation were not fit subjects in my present state.
A medical gentleman was present at the concert, who offered his services in reviving Miss Carmina. The same gentleman is now in attendance on the interesting patient. Can you guess who he is?" Mr. Le Frank had sold a ticket for his concert to the medical adviser of the family one Mr. Null. A cautious guess in this direction seemed to offer the likeliest chance of success.
"Worthy old creature! how full of humour she is! The energy of the people, Miss Carmina. I often remark the quaint force with which they express their ideas. No not a word of apology, I beg and pray. Maria, my dear, take your sister's hand, and we will follow."
In this sort did I spend some leisure hours during my confinement in Bridewell, especially after our return from Newgate thither, when we had more liberty, and more opportunity and room for retirement and thought: for, as the poet said, Carmina scribentes secessum et otia quaerunt. They who would write in measure, Retire where they may, stillness have and pleasure.
Teresa and the music-seller suggested a more reasonable view as gravely as they could. Carmina humbly submitted to the claims of common sense without yielding, for all that. "I know I'm wrong," she confessed. "Don't spoil my pleasure; I can't do it!" The strange parallel was now complete. Bound for the same destination, Carmina and Ovid had failed to reach it alike.
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