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After an unendurable interval of nearly an hour's duration, Sir Peter returned alone to the breakfast-room. Mr. Cosway and Mr. Stone had already taken their departure for London, with their host's entire approval. "It is left to my discretion," Sir Peter proceeded, "to repeat to you what I have heard in my study.
Adela received this bold solution of the difficulty in which they were placed exactly as thousands of other young ladies have received similar proposals before her time, and after. She first said positively No. Cosway persisted. She began to cry, and asked if he had no respect for her. Cosway declared that his respect was equal to any sacrifice except the sacrifice of parting with her forever.
Among the unimportant junior officers, not wanted on board under these circumstances, and favored accordingly by obtaining leave to wait for orders on shore, were two young men, aged respectively twenty-two and twenty-three years, and known by the names of Cosway and Stone.
She knew by instinct the man who disliked her and she waited deliberately for Stone to reply. "We have been here some time," he said, "and we shall be obliged, ma'am, if you will let us have our bill." Mrs. Pounce lifted her eyebrows with an expression of innocent surprise. "Has the captain got well, and must you go on board to-night?" she asked. "Nothing of the sort!" Cosway interposed.
"You want my name in return, I suppose? You young puppy, you shall have it! My name is Restall." He turned his back and walked off. Cosway took the only course now open to him. He returned to his lodgings. The next day no letter reached him from Adela. He went to the postoffice. No letter was there. The day wore on to evening and, with the evening, there appeared a woman who was a stranger to him.
Bear it patiently, dear, as I do, and let me hear if you have succeeded in finding a lodging near us." Not submitting to this first disappointment very patiently, Cosway sent his reply to the post-office, addressed to A. R. the initials of Adela Restall. The next day the impatient lover applied for another letter. It was waiting for him, but it was not directed in Adela's handwriting.
Your enemy's object could only be to provoke you into planning an elopement and, your arrangements once completed, to inform Mr. Restall, and to part you and Miss Adela quite as effectually as if you were at opposite ends of the world. Oh, you will undoubtedly be parted! Spiteful, isn't it? And, what is worse, the mischief is as good as done already." Cosway rose from his chair.
Out of this unpromising material the lively imaginations of the women built up a romance. The men only noticed that Mr. Cosway was rather silent and thoughtful; that he was not ready with his laugh; and that he had a fancy for taking long walks by himself. Harmless peculiarities, surely? And yet, they excited the curiosity of the women as signs of a mystery in Mr.
"And, when Lady Aurelia Cosway and her five beautiful daughters drive up to the door, will you go and receive them in the ball; and, making them a profound curtsey, beg to conduct them into a dressing-room?" "No; because, d'ye see, no ladies ever came further than your door." "And whom may I thank for that?" "Me, assuredly," said Pigtop, very proudly. "I do."
Cosway did not permit her to be paid for her work, and as a consequence many costly gifts were made her in return for her miniatures, which were regarded as veritable treasures by their possessors.
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