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His lips just touched Carmina's delicate little ear, while his mother turned away to ring the bell. "Expect me to-morrow," he whispered. "I love you! love you! love you!" He seemed to find the perfection of luxury in the reiteration of those words. When Ovid had left them, Carmina expected to hear something of her aunt's discovery in the Square. Mrs. Gallilee's innocence was impenetrable.
He humoured her silently and mechanically just as he had humoured her in the matter of the stick, and in the matter of the tickling. Having opened the dictionary, he looked again at Carmina. She had not moved; she seemed to be weary enough to fall asleep. The reaction nothing but the reaction. It might last for hours, or it might be at an end in another minute.
Press on the place so. And, when she wriggles, say, With the big doctor's love." Getting back to his own house, Mr. Mool was surprised to find an open carriage at the garden gate. A smartly-dressed woman, on the front seat, surveyed him with an uneasy look. "If you please, sir," she said, "would you kindly tell Miss Carmina that we really mustn't wait any longer?"
Miss Minerva's mind was too seriously preoccupied to notice this aggravation of her pupil's offence. One subject absorbed her attention the interview then in progress between Carmina and her aunt. How would Mrs. Gallilee's scheme prosper now? Mr. Le Frank might, or might not, consent to be Carmina's teacher. Another result, however, was certain.
Carmina asked in dismay. "He may only have heard you playing." Offering this hopeful suggestion, Miss Minerva felt no doubt, in her own mind, that Mr. Le Frank was perfectly well acquainted with Carmina's opinion of him. It was easy enough to understand that he should himself inform the governess of an incident, so entirely beyond the reach of his own interference as the flight of Zo.
"She is almost well again." Left alone, Teresa went into the sitting-room: she was afraid to show herself at the bedside. Mr. Null had destroyed the one hope which had supported her thus far the hope of escaping from England with Carmina, before Mrs. Gallilee could interfere.
Had she not more than once advised him to wait a few years in other words, to wait until he had won the highest honours of his profession before he thought of marrying at all? But Carmina was too precious to him to be humiliated by comparisons with other women, no matter what their rank might be. He paid her a compliment, instead of giving her an answer.
"Why are you so loud?" Zo interposed. "Do you think he's deaf?" Benjulia made a sign, commanding the child to be silent without turning towards her. He answered Carmina as if there had been no interruption. "My medical studies," he said, "reconcile me to my life." "Suppose you got tired of your studies?" she asked. "I should never get tired of them." "Suppose you couldn't study any more?"
There might be difficulties to come, in managing Carmina, which she had not foreseen. Meanwhile, she was left to act on her own unaided discretion in the serious matter of her son's failing health. Benjulia had refused to help her; he was too closely occupied in his laboratory to pay or receive visits. "Send him away.
Helped by her steadier flow of spirits, Carmina could now see all that was worthiest of sympathy and admiration, all that claimed loving submission and allowance from herself, in the sacrifice to which Miss Minerva had submitted. How bravely the poor governess had controlled the jealous misery that tortured her! How nobly she had pronounced Carmina's friendship for Carmina's sake!
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