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Her arms were round my neck now. There was a minute or two of silence: I really did not know what to say next. Then she looked up, tears in her eyes, a tone I never could describe in her voice. "And you have done all this for me, Robert!" I made a feeble attempt to unloose her hands and draw myself up. "Don't talk that way, Clarice; it hurts me.
Through the open window opposite to her she perceived the glimmer of a light dress in the dark of the room, but it was motionless now, a fixed patch of white. Clarice experienced a revulsion of pity for Lady Cranston. 'What must be her thoughts? she asked herself. She remained at the window until the party from the Club emerged again from the passage and turned towards the hotel.
The question sprang into his mind, 'Could Mallinson have a fair chance unless she was made acquainted with those facts? Fielding knew Members of Parliament who had been returned over the heads of residents in the constituency because they entered it too late for the electors to become intimate with their defects. Drake's career might provide an analogy unless Clarice was told.
We may hope to reach the Indian camp early to-morrow, and your sister will then be placed under the charge of the Indian chief and his daughter." When I put the question to Clarice, she replied, "I would infinitely rather have you with me; but if you believe that it is your duty to remain with Uncle Jeff, I could not bear the thought of your leaving him.
Clarice, however, paid no great attention to the proceedings in the waggonette. She was almost oblivious to the husband at her side. The night was about her, cool with soft odours, wrapping her in solitude. Love at last veritably possessed her, so she believed; it had invaded her last citadel to-night. That it sat throned on ruins she had no eyes to see.
He called me "Clarice" the other day, and never noticed the mistake, and that's not my name, is it? She turned to him quite seriously as she put the question. 'No, replied Fielding, 'your name's Constance, and he dwelt upon the name for a second. 'Yes Constance, said Mrs. Willoughby thoughtfully. 'It sounds rather prim, don't you think?
'The phrase, Drake had said, 'to me is significant of something more than cheap phraseology. I know that half a throb could create an earthquake in Matanga. What if the man's established interest in this direction were to suppress his nascent interest in Clarice! Fielding immediately asked Drake what he thought of Miss Le Mesurier.
I had by this time observed that my mother was not looking so well as usual. One night she became very ill, and in spite of all my father and two kind women of our party could do for her, before morning she was dead. My father appeared inconsolable; and, naturally, Clarice and I were very unhappy. We would willingly have died with her.
"I don't see that," said the troublesome Jane: "what was the use of your being there intermeddling?" "Jane," said one severely, "if you will be still, you will probably learn. How can you expect to hear anything when you keep on interrupting Clarice like this?" "I am coming to that now, Jane. What he thus saw and heard he most patiently, and heroically, and from the noblest motives "
'No. Clarice was driven to name the companion. 'You seem to have struck up a great friendship with Mr. Drake. I should hardly have thought that you would have found much in common. 'Arcades ambo, don't you know? Clarice did not know, and being by this time exasperated, she showed that she did not. Fielding explained blandly, 'We both drive the same pigs to the same market.
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