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Miss Etta and Grega and Mr. Lin Darton were gathered into a corner of the room and an occasional whispering escaped them. The oppression was terrific. I began to want Lisbeth, to long for her to come, as she would come, like a cool blade cutting through density. And yet I was not sure. I found myself staring through the black, shiny surface of the window, seeking relief in the obscuring dark.
Darton was the first to break the silence. 'Shall I call Sally? he said. 'O no, she quickly returned. 'We have given trouble enough already. We have no right here. But we are the sport of fate, and were obliged to come. 'No right here! said he in surprise. 'None. I can't explain it now, answered Helena. 'This kettle is very slow.
She interposed with a stout negative, which closed the course of his argument like an iron gate across a highway. Darton paused. 'Then, said he simply, 'you hadn't heard of my supposed failure when you declined last time? 'I had not, she said. 'But if I had 'twould have been all the same. 'And 'tis not because of any soreness from my slighting you years ago? 'No. That soreness is long past.
'Please do not put this question to me any more. Friends as long as you like, but lovers and married never. 'I never will, said Darton. 'Not if I live a hundred years. And he never did. That he had worn out his welcome in her heart was only too plain. When his step-children had grown up, and were placed out in life, all communication between Darton and the Hall family ceased.
Her stagnant sympathies, her sometimes unreasonable manner, had covered a heart frank and well meaning, and originally hopeful and warm. She left him a tiny red infant in white wrappings. To make life as easy as possible to this touching object became at once his care. As this child learnt to walk and talk Darton learnt to see feasibility in a scheme which pleased him.
She sat down and enclosed the tickets to Rose Darton, with a little sugared note. Sarah, being out, Elizabeth took it.
A desultory, very desultory correspondence, dragged on between Sally Hall and Darton, who, not quite knowing how to take her petulant words on the night of her brother's death, had continued passive thus long. Helena and her children remained at the dairy-house, almost of necessity, and Darton therefore deemed it advisable to stay away. One day, seven months later on, when Mr.
He proceeded to seek relief in a business which at this time engrossed much of his attention that of clearing up a curious mistake just current in the county, that he had been nearly ruined by the recent failure of a local bank. A farmer named Darton had lost heavily, and the similarity of name had probably led to the error.
The large farmers, corn-merchants, millers, auctioneers, and others had each an official stall in the corn-market room, with their names painted thereon; and when to the familiar series of "Henchard," "Everdene," "Shiner," "Darton," and so on, was added one inscribed "Farfrae," in staring new letters, Henchard was stung into bitterness; like Bellerophon, he wandered away from the crowd, cankered in soul.
Thus set in train, the transfer of Darton's heart back to its original quarters proceeded by mere lapse of time. In the following July, Darton went to his friend Japheth to ask him at last to fulfil the bridal office which had been in abeyance since the previous January twelvemonths. 'With all my heart, man o' constancy! said Dairyman Johns warmly.
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