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Harry perceived her darling's plastic nature changing daily for the worse in the hands of this crafty potter; and though it was an admission humiliating to her, as a mother, to make, she made it to Mrs. Basil in her sick-room. "Mr. Balfour is doing my Charley harm," she said. "He is an altered boy already, and yet my husband talks as though we are never to be rid of the man.
She had been waiting for her darling's arrival with a beating heart, and in the joy of hearing his voice once more, and of being able to lay her hands again on that beloved head, she forgot everything else even her first-born son who stood by smiling bitterly, as he watched the rich and boundless stream of a mother's love flowing out to his younger brother.
His efforts to master the delicate intricacy of his darling's mental and spiritual organization may be like the would-be careful hold of thumb and finger upon a butterfly's wing, but the pain he causes is inconceivable by him. The suspicion of hurt to the beautiful thing would break his heart.
The Christchurch Kid was himself strictly conventional, and had been genuinely shocked by Darling's practices, and especially by his striking resemblance to the Master as portrayed by the early painters, and by Munkácsy in Christ Before Pilate. "'E was all right," he explained to me as we climbed, "but 'e ought to been careful of 'is looks.
General Darling's wife, a very valuable lady, has adopted the same system there; she has visited the prison at Paramatta, and the same thing respecting the officers is felt there as it is here. On the Continent of Europe, in various parts St. Petersburg, Geneva, Turin, Berne, Basle, and some other places there are corresponding societies, and the result is the same in every part.
Murray opened the paper, glanced at the date, and his swarthy face paled as he put his hands over his eyes. Mrs. Powell came nearer, and once more touched his hand; but, with a gesture of disgust, he pushed her aside. "Away! Not a word not one word more! You are not worthy to take my darling's name upon your lips! She may be Manning's wife God forbid it! or she may be in her grave.
I suppose it was because Wendy knew this that her last words to him were these rather plaintive ones: 'You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised; and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemed satisfied.
I'll read quietly till you want me. Then I shall be very glad to do any thing I can for you." With that Christie retired to the big chair, and fell to reading the first book she took up, a good deal embarrassed by her reception, and very curious to know what would come next. The old woman went away after folding the down coverlet carefully over her darling's feet, and Helen seemed to go to sleep.
Everything seemed to have combined to lead him on to predestined disaster and misery even in Sabine's and Michael's combining to keep the matter secret from him not to cause him pain all had augmented the suffering now. If but there was no good in contemplating ifs what he had to do was to think clearly as to what would be the wisest course to secure his darling's happiness.
Haughton first presented himself? how often had he seen Sophy? what had passed between them? did not Lady Montfort see that his darling's heart was breaking?"
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