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The brim of her hat struck Carrissima as being a shade wider than that of any one else, her dress closer about the ankles, while yet she wore it without a trace of anything that could be called vulgarity. "I should have come even earlier," she said, taking Carrissima's hand; "but I only got back from Sandbay this morning.
"Oh, thank you," she exclaimed. "So custom stales any variety they possess." "Not at all," he urged. "What I meant was that familiarity, as the copybooks say, may breed a kind of well, scarcely contempt " "Mark," said Carrissima, "the more you say the worse you will make it. I really think you had better be quiet.
When she referred to the report of a recent lawsuit in which Lawrence had admittedly increased his already growing reputation, Carrissima smiled to see him unbend, although she might feel inclined to frown when she noticed that Colonel Faversham's eyes scarcely left Bridget's face until she rose from her chair to follow her hostess up-stairs.
"From what I have seen since," Carrissima continued, "I believe you have found a mare's nest. You seem to forget that father is sixty-five." "Ah, yes, but he doesn't begin to realize the fact," said Lawrence. "He thinks he is quite capable of acting like an ordinary man of half his age. If you had tried to provide your friend with an easy prey, you couldn't have gone a surer way to work."
Her brother Lawrence, for instance, who was apt to search for mysterious springs of action, and who must not on any account be allowed to hit upon the true one. No doubt Carrissima was sensitive and self-conscious; moreover, she was jealous. She was, however, extremely curious also curious to see for herself how Bridget had developed and in the end she made up her mind to go to Golfney Place.
If this were the case, nothing else seemed to be of any importance. Carrissima was prepared to condone an offence, the importance of which, she supposed, she had exaggerated; and perhaps if she were to make herself more abject, he would grasp the olive branch. As Bridget suggested, what did it matter so that they came together at last?
Weeks have passed since Carrissima came to ask Sybil to look you up. If she had been in London she would have flown to your house; you might graciously have returned her visit; I should have seen you, and precious time would have been saved." "It's never too late to mend," said Bridget. "I mean, of course, for your sister." "You regard me as hopeless?"
"He looked very well the last time I saw him," replied Carrissima, at once on guard. "When was that?" "A few days ago!" "You don't appear to have any interesting announcement to make," suggested Bridget, with expressive eyes on Carrissima's face. Now, Carrissima hesitated. She could easily have answered in such a way that her hostess, with all her audacity, would have been silenced.
With the deliberate intention of creating a favourable impression on the colonel, for whose daughter's hand he was on the point of asking, Mark explained that Harefield's practice was turning out far better than could have been expected. Now and then he glanced significantly at Carrissima, who might have bidden him "good-bye" very happily if Bridget Rosser had never entered her life.
"Sybil Clynesworth," she answered, with her eyes on the notepaper. "What has she got to say?" exclaimed the colonel, fidgeting in his chair. "Why do you hesitate?" he added. "Jimmy is going to be married," said Carrissima. "H'm! Going to marry Bridget?" "From what Sybil says, in a very few days," was the answer. Colonel Faversham said nothing more at the moment.
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