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Updated: June 7, 2025
I'd better begin to feel a bit scared about Elma's health. ... Seems to me she's had a pretty bad shock and wants to settle right in, and not risk another move for the next three or four days!" ... The scarlet lips twisted whimsically, and a dimple dipped in the white cheek.
She therefore directed the driver to take her to the jeweller's shop in Bond Street where she had made her previous purchases, and anticipated a pleasant half hour choosing an ornament which would commend itself to Elma's approval. The partner in the firm welcomed her with his usual empressement, mingled with a certain surprise for which she was at a loss to account.
Oh, how kind of you; thank you. No, Elma's none the worse for her adventure, thank Heaven! just a little shaken, that's all, but not otherwise injured. And this gentleman's the brother of the kind friend who was so good to her in the tunnel. I'm not quite sure of the name. I think it's " "Guy Waring," the young man interposed blandly.
A forgotten love. Yet she tingled to remember it. "And you think?" Mr. Clifford asked, laying down his newspaper and looking very grave. "I don't think. I know," his wife answered hastily. "I was wrong the other day, and Elma's in love with that young man, Cyril Waring.
Clifford went down to meet her husband in the breakfast-room. "Well?" the father asked, shortly, looking hard at his wife's face, which told its own tale at once, for it was white and pallid. "Well!" Mrs. Clifford answered, with a pre-occupied air. "Elma's not herself this morning at all. Had a nervous turn after she went to her room last night. I know what it is.
Geoffrey was lounging about in the hall as the two girls descended the wide staircase. His attitude gave the impression that he had been impatiently awaiting their advent, and, as he took in Elma's changed looks in one comprehensive sweep, his eyes brightened with an expression before which her lids drooped in embarrassment.
"Why, so do I!" "How strange it seems!" In the garden of Eden these surprises grow on every bush! Elma's heart was hopelessly out of keeping, but conscience still fought feebly against temptation.
She sat holding herself somewhat stiff, feeling a good deal disgusted, wondering what Bessie Challoner would say, what Gwin Harley would think, anticipating in advance Elma's sneers. Kitty, however, subjugated Mr. and Mrs. Denvers and the two boys completely.
But as you see, any excitement " Madame gesticulated eloquently behind Elma's back. "Excitement prostrates you, doesn't it, dear? We must keep you quite a prisoner for the next few days!" Mrs Ramsden sat down heavily on a wicker chair, folded her hands on her sloping lap, and sighed resignedly. Hardly a moment had elapsed since her arrival, but already her cause was lost.
The anguished grip of the heart with which he realised at once Elma's identity, and her peril, was a revelation of his own feelings which could not be reasoned away. As he knelt by her side in those first anxious moments he was perhaps almost as much stunned as herself, for in the flash of an eye his whole life had altered.
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