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Knight then saw that she was bleeding from a severe cut in her wrist, apparently where it had descended upon a salient corner of the lead-work. Elfride, too, seemed to perceive and feel this now for the first time, and for a minute nearly lost consciousness again.
'Now, she said to Elfride, who, like AEneas at Carthage, was full of admiration for the brilliant scene, 'you will find that our companionless state will give us, as it does everybody, an extraordinary power in reading the features of our fellow-creatures here.
They dine at my lord's oftener than they used. Ah, here's a note was brought this morning for you by a boy. Stephen eagerly took the note and opened it, his mother watching him. He read what Elfride had written and sent before she started for the cliff that afternoon: 'Yes; I will meet you in the church at nine to-night.
Elfride had not; but she had begun to take for her maxim the undoubted truth that the necessity of continuing faithful to Stephen, without suspicion, dictated a fickle behaviour almost as imperatively as fickleness itself; a fact, however, which would give a startling advantage to the latter quality should it ever appear.
Now she would have the satisfaction of feeling that at any rate he knew her true intent in crossing his path, and annoying him so by her performance, and be taught perhaps to despise it a little less. Four days later an envelope, directed to Miss Swancourt in a strange hand, made its appearance from the post-bag. 'Oh, said Elfride, her heart sinking within her.
Moreover, several years of poetic study, and, if the truth must be told, poetic efforts, had tended to develop the affective side of his constitution still further, in proportion to his active faculties. It was his belief in the absolute newness of blandishment to Elfride which had constituted her primary charm.
'You will kill me quite, I am afraid. 'Kill you? 'As a diamond kills an opal in the same setting. 'I have noticed several ladies and gentlemen looking at me, said Elfride artlessly, showing her pleasure at being observed. 'My dear, you mustn't say "gentlemen" nowadays, her stepmother answered in the tones of arch concern that so well became her ugliness.
Elfride grew pale, and shifted her little feet uneasily. Knight lowered the glass. 'I think we had better return, he said. 'That cloud which is raining on them may soon reach us. Why, you look ill. How is that? 'Something in the air affects my face. 'Those fair cheeks are very fastidious, I fear, returned Knight tenderly.
When he surveyed the volumes on his shelves few of which had been opened since Elfride first took possession of his heart their untouched and orderly arrangement reproached him as an apostate from the old faith of his youth and early manhood. He had deserted those never-failing friends, so they seemed to say, for an unstable delight in a ductile woman, which had ended all in bitterness.
His obtuseness to the cause of her indisposition, by evidencing his entire freedom from the suspicion of anything behind the scenes, showed how incapable Knight was of deception himself, rather than any inherent dulness in him regarding human nature. This, clearly perceived by Elfride, added poignancy to her self-reproach, and she idolized him the more because of their difference.
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