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On all of which accounts he resisted his mother's grief, and his own at seeing her grieve, and decided on going down to Monk Grange the next day. Had not Dr. Corfield been ailing at this time, the mother would have accompanied her son.
My uncle visited Clifton late in 1867, and decided to have the sheep boiled down at the works owned by Mr. Harry Edkins, on the Albert River. During his stay at Burketown he became the guest of Mr. Surveyor Sharkey on Sweers Island, and met Miss Huey, sister of Mrs. Edkins, late of Mount Cornish Station, who became the second Mrs. Corfield.
"No," said Learn with her old disdain for self-evident propositions. "I am sitting here." "Don't you care for dancing?" he asked. He knew that she did, but a certain temperament prefers foolish questions to silence; and Alick Corfield was one who had that temperament. "Not to-night," she answered, looking into the garden,
One day while they were there Mrs. Corfield called Alick. "Wait for me, I shall not be long," he said to Leam, and went out to his mother. As he turned Learnm's eyes went again to that small phial of death on the shelf. "Take it, Leama! take it, my heart!" she heard her mother whisper.
Corfield briskly, "it was a pretty sight, and I am sure every one was happy."
The last words came in as grace-lines, and with them Alick felt himself dismissed. If the rector had been facile to deal with, Mrs. Corfield was not. When she heard of the proposed arrangement, and that she was to lose her boy for the second time out of her daily life, and more permanently than before, her grief was as intense as if she had been told of his approaching death.
But she went daily to Steel's Corner, because she knew the Corfields and in her own way liked Alick. Mrs. Corfield assured her there was no danger, not a particle, with her free use of disinfectants and her cunning devices of ventilation. And Leam believed her, and acted on her belief, which gave her a false look of heroism and devotion that won the heart of poor Pepita's "crooked stick" for ever.
He owed it to himself and his position that his wife, man of many loves as he was, should be this; but at the worst the childish affection of brother and sister, which was all that could possibly have been between Leam and that awkward young gangrel Alick Corfield, could have nothing in it that he ought to take to heart or that should influence him. Yes, he might smile and not be afraid.
"Would you like to double your protectors?" he asked. "Shall I share my office?" "No," said Leam. "I like best to be with one person only." "And possession being the nine points, let us go on," laughed Edgar, whirling her away. "By the by, would you have preferred my giving you to Mr. Corfield as 'the one person only'?" he asked with affected doubt, making pretence of wishing to know her mind.
"But if you come to us, you can listen to her as much as you like," said Alick soothingly. "We will not hinder you; and, as my mother says, it is not good for you to be here alone." "I like it," said Leam. "Nonsense! then you should not like it. It is not natural for a girl of your age to like it. Come with us," cried Mrs. Corfield: "why not?" "I have something to do," Leam answered solemnly.
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