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It it isn't reasonable." All the mischief in her eyes was drowned in fresh tears. She thought that he was offended, and the estrangement of a moment seems eternal to first love. "Honorable men do not permit themselves to speak of love at all where they have reason to think it unwelcome," was his grave reply. "Unwelcome? Oh, Mr. Closs!"
He would never forgive me if I permitted this entanglement." Lady Clara turned to Hepworth Closs. "Plead for me plead for that poor girl!" she cried, with the unreasoning persistence of a child; but, to her astonishment, Hepworth answered even more resolutely than his sister. "I cannot, Clara. There should be nothing in common between the daughter of Olympia and Lord Hope's only child."
These thoughts troubled the proud old peeress a long time before she gave them expression; but, one day, Clara sat by her, looking a little sad, for, now that the excitement of her first coming was over, she began to think of Hepworth Closs to wonder where he was, and yearn for some news of him to a degree that clouded her whole bright being like a feeling of homesickness.
Some prest hard to go thorow the chief Parts of the City as was done at the Revolution; but this we refused, considering that it looked airy and frothy, to make such Show of them, and inconsistent with the solid serious Observing of such an affecting, surprizing unheard-of Dispensation: But took the ordinary Way of other Burials from that Place, to wit, we went east the Back of the Wall, and in at Bristo-Port, and down the Way to the Head of the Cowgate, and turned up to the Churchyard, where they were interred closs to the Martyrs Tomb, with the greatest Multitude of People Old and Young, Men and Women, Ministers and others, that ever I saw together."
Closs turned very white, and his hand clenched and unclenched itself with passionate force. "My lord, this is a cruel insult, which I have not deserved!" All at once the earl turned, with some show of feeling, and looked Hepworth steadily in the face. "Hepworth Closs, listen to me. If I seem cruel and unmanly, it is because I wish to be kind.
"I will do anything, everything that you wish, only do not leave me again." "But I must sometimes go out." "And I cannot go with you. Rachael Closs is not good enough for your high-born friends. Lady Carset has put her ban on your wife, and the nobility of England accept it. But for this I might have been the companion of your visits, the helpmate of your greatness for I have the power.
During fourteen years Hepworth Closs had been a wanderer over the earth. When he was carried out from the court-room after Mrs. Yates' confession of a crime which he had shrinkingly believed committed by another, he had fainted from the suddenness with which a terrible load had been lifted from his soul. In that old woman's guilt he had no share.
Then Hepworth Closs stepped forth, and on his arm a bright, sparkling little figure, in a cloud of gauzy silk, and crowned with white roses, who smiled and kissed her hand to the crowd, while her little feet kept time, and almost danced, to the music, which broke from terrace and covert as the bridal party appeared.
Why, that's the place I saw mentioned in the Court Journal. There is to be tremendous doings at Houghton Castle before long; a grand entertainment, to which all the grandees, far and near, are invited. What if this fifty thousand dollars should get me and Mrs. S. an invite? That would be a crusher." "It is possible," said Closs, controlling the fierce beating of his heart.
"Not if I persuade Lady Hope to take you up to London for this appearance?" "Ah, then, perhaps." "And go with you myself?" "That will be splendid." "That Olympia is a magnificent creature. I took supper with her once in New York." "You, Mr. Closs! You took supper with her?" "She sang for us that night, divinely." "And you admire her so much?" "Very much." "Mr. Closs, I do not think I care to go.
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