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Perhaps my own dark tresses were crowned by premature snow. I had not seen myself since the green of summer had passed into the "sere and yellow leaf," and perhaps the blight of my heart was visible on my brow. When I was alone with Edith, I surprised her by asking if my hair were not white. She smiled, and bringing a toilet glass, held it before me.
Leete had not spoken with that apologetic air and Mrs. Leete and Edith shown a corresponding embarrassment, I should not have flushed, as I was conscious I did. "I was not in much danger of being vain of my generation before," I said; "but, really " "This is your generation, Mr. West," interposed Edith.
In weak natures we often find great pertinacity. Granger had this quality. He had set his mind on the copartnership, and saw in it a high road to fortune, and no argument of Mr. Dinneford, nor opposition of Edith, had power to change his views, or to hold him back from the arrangement favored by Mrs. Dinneford, and made possible by the capital she almost compelled her husband to supply.
Edith should read Nina's letter aloud to him, with Arthur sitting near, and then, when it was finished, he would ask if it were true, und why she had not told him before. Dinner was over, and in the library, where Richard had asked Edith to be his wife, he sat waiting for her now, and for Arthur who had been invited to Collingwood that afternoon.
As has been said, they often exchanged ideas without words. He remarked, as she glanced at a book: 'Yes, I have read A Life of Slavery. Have you? Do you think it good? 'Splendid, Edith answered; 'it's a labour of hate. He laughed. 'Quite true. One can't call it a labour of love, though it was written to please the writer not the public.
Thus ran his fancies day by day, and the night only lent a deeper intensity to the yearnings of the day. He walked about as in a dream, seeing nothing, heeding nothing, while this one strong desire to see Edith once more throbbed and throbbed with a slow, feverish perseverance within him. Edith Edith, the very name had a strange, potent fascination.
Beside Edith, on the most comfortable portion of the ottoman, sat Chimo, with an air of majestic solemnity, looking, as privileged dogs always do look under like circumstances, as if the chief seat belonged to him as a matter not of favour but of right. On the table was spread a solid lump of excellent pemmican excellent, because made by the fair hands of Mrs Stanley.
'Oh, men are all alike! exclaimed Madame Frabelle cynically. 'Only some men, said Edith. 'Besides, to a woman I mean, a nice woman there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name. 'Men often say women are all alike, said Madame Frabelle.
Ever since Heideck had heard the news of Edith Irwin's death from Brandelaar, all purely human feelings and sensations that connected him with life had died in his heart. He was no longer anything but the soldier, whose thoughts and efforts were filled exclusively with anxiety for the victory of his country's arms.
I must see Humphrey, and be candid with him." "But Alice and Edith, where are they gone, father?" "That I can inform you. I have a letter from Langton on the subject, for I begged him to find out.
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