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Sellimer's illness, but was to take place immediately so said the last letter before the arrival of the news that changed the course of events at the cove. As yet, Lahoma had not met Mr. Gledware, but the fame of his riches and his luxurious home had both increased her curiosity to see him, and her conviction that Mr. Edgerton Compton stood no chance with Annabel.
That very day, I found, on reaching home, that William Edgerton had been there had gone there almost the moment after he had left me at the office; and that he had remained there, obviously at work in the studio, until the time drew nigh for my return to dinner. My feelings forbade any inquiries. These, facts were all related by my wife herself. I did not ask to hear them.
This ended our conference. Kingsley rode home with him, while, throwing myself upon the ground, I surrendered myself to such meditations as were natural to the moods which governed me. They were dark and dismal enough. Edgerton had avowed his guilt. Could there be any doubt on the subject of my wife's? He had made no sort of qualification in his avowal of guilt, which might acquit her.
This inquiry was made abruptly, but it did not disturb her. Her answer was strangely satisfactory. "I have scarcely looked in upon the studio in all that time." I longed to ask what Edgerton had done with himself, and whether he had been suffered to employ himself alone, in his morning visits, but my tongue faltered I somehow dared not.
How much would I have given could he only have provoked me to anger on any ground could he have given me an occasion for difference of any sort or to any degree anything which could have justified a mutual falling off from the old intimacy! But William Edgerton was meekness and kindness itself.
"William Edgerton is a little too amiable, perhaps, for his own good. It makes him listless and worthless. He will do nothing at pictures, wasting his time only when he should be at his business." "But did I not understand you, Edward, that he was a man of fortune, and independent of his profession?" she answered timidly. "Even that will not justify a man in becoming a trifler.
I saw their linked arms the compliant, willing movements of their mutual forms and dark were the images of guilt and hateful suspicion which entered my brain and grew to vivid forms, in action before me. I fancied the fierce, passionate yearnings in the heart of Edgerton; I trembled when I conjectured what fancies filled the heart of Julia.
When, the next day, I sought William Edgerton himbelf, and declared my novel determination, he turned pale as death. I could see that his lips quivered. I watched him closely. He was evidently racked by an emotion which was more obvious from the necessity he was under of suppressing it.
Carl Schurz, also, stirred us deeply. I recall one clever sentence. He said, "When the time came that this country needed a poultice it elected President Hayes and got it." Of our local talent real eloquence found its best expression in Henry Edgerton. The height of enthusiasm was registered in war-time by the mighty throng that gathered at Lincoln's call for a hundred thousand men.
Darrin leaped nimbly back, both from a chivalrous impulse to give Treadwell a chance to recover his steadiness and to save himself from any sudden rush and clinch by his big opponent. But Treadwell, standing with his guard up, showed no inclination to follow the one who had just given him such punishment. "Mix it up, gentlemen mix it!" called Midshipman Edgerton impatiently.
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