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You don't have so much leisure out of childhood." "What jolly times we had back there in First Street! Oh, Ben, I did like you all so much! And I can't bear to have the good feeling die out." There were tears in Delia's brown eyes. Ben was moved immeasurably. "May be I ought to have said something to mother; Joe counselled me to wait." "Then it has been talked about!"
Thus ended the First Act of Delia's life. When three weeks later, after a marriage at which no one was present except the persons to be married, Lady Tonbridge, and Dr. France, Winnington took his wife far from these scenes to lands of summer and of rest, he carried with him a Delia ineffaceably marked by this tragedy of her youth.
She remembered Delia's mother, and in the face before her she recognised again the Greek type, the old pure type, reappearing, as it constantly does, in the mixed modern race. But the daughter surpassed her mother.
The resentment was rather Delia's, but she kept it to herself, for she was capable of reflecting with complacency that the key of the house would after all be hers, so that she could open the door for the Proberts if the Proberts should knock.
The faces of the three women in the back parlour, were all strained and nervous; they spoke low, and they gathered round Delia with an eagerness which betrayed their own sense of isolation of being left leaderless. "You will be going up soon, won't you?" whispered Miss Toogood, as she stroked the sleeve of Delia's jacket.
Delia's glance showed her uncertain whether the foe was worth her steel. "We want to manage ourselves," she said at last, smiling indifferently. "We say you do it badly." The Captain attempted to spar with her a little longer. Winnington meanwhile stood, a silent listener, amid the group round the tea-table. He and Dr.
The last of Delia's furniture was hardly aboard, when we heard great shouts of joy, and saw the men returning that had gone to search the cliff. They bore between them three large oak coffers: which being broke, we came on an immense deal of old plate and jewels, besides over L300 in coined money. There were two more left behind, they said, besides several small bags of gold.
Gertrude was really planning this hateful thing; the destruction of this beautiful and historic house, with all its memories and its treasures, in order to punish a Cabinet Minister for his opposition to Woman Suffrage, and so terrorise others. Moreover it meant the risking of human life Daunt his children, complete indifference also to Delia's feelings, Delia's pain. What was she to do?
Delia indeed never spoke of the militant propaganda; but she often produced on Susy a strange impression as of someone listening through darkness. The net result of all these guessings was that the tender Susy fell suddenly in love with Delia first for Mark's sake, then for her own; and became in a few days of frequent meetings, Delia's small worshipper and ministering spirit.
They had the front room upstairs, and their bed stood in the alcove. The furnishing looked like some of the country houses. Mrs. Whitney had the back room, and Nora shared it with her. There were great pantries between with shelves and drawers, and in one a large chest, painted green, that Nora said was full of curiosities. Delia's room was up on the top floor. She had made it oddly pretty.
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