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Edmonstone's forgiveness. 'You had rather to forgive us! said she. 'You forget how ill I behaved, said Guy, colouring. 'If you knew the madness of those first moments of provocation, you would think that the penance of a lifetime, instead of only one winter, would scarce have been sufficient. 'You would not say, as Charles does, that the suspicion justified your anger?
Edmonstone. This was too much for Charlotte, who sprang forward, and flung her arms round her neck, sobbing out, 'Mamma! dear mamma! don't say such horrid things! No one is half so wise or so good, I am sure Guy thinks so too! At the same time Bustle, perceiving a commotion, made a leap, planted his fore-feet on Mrs. Edmonstone's lap, wagging his tail vehemently, and trying to lick her face.
Guy had ever learned to wait patiently, and had a custom of marching up and down, and listening with his head thrown back, or, as Charles used to call it, 'prancing in the hall. If Mrs. Edmonstone's patience was tried by the preparation for the hunt in the morning, it was no less her lot to hear of it in the evening.
'It was after he had been bled that he seemed to wake up. He could not speak or move, but he looked at me or I don't know what I should have done. The last words were almost inaudible from the gush of tears that he vainly struggled to repress, and he was turning away to hide them, when he saw that Mrs. Edmonstone's were flowing fast.
'Well, well, he broke in nervously, 'I know all that, and it can't be helped. Say no more about it. Young people will be foolish, and I have been young and in love myself. That Captain Morville should live to be thankful for being forgiven in consideration of Mr. Edmonstone's having been young! 'May I then consider myself as pardoned, and as having obtained your sanction?
Edmonstone's sentence, and trust that time will bring to his knowledge that I am innocent of what I am accused of. He has every right to be displeased with me. Charles pronounced this to be only Guy's way of abusing himself; but his father saw in it a disguised admission of guilt.
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