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There was a silence for a little time, and the elder lady resumed: "I remember now what you allude to, dear mademoiselle the increased estrangement, the widening separation which severs me from one unutterably dear to me the first and bitter disappointment of my life, which seems to grow more hopelessly incurable day by day." Mrs. Marston paused, and, after a brief silence, the governess said:
Stripped of every vestige of the older Roman civilization by ages of bitter warfare, of civil strife, of estrangement from the general culture of Christendom, the unconquered Britons had sunk into a mass of savage herdsmen, clad in the skins and fed by the milk of the cattle they tended.
Some suspicion of this estrangement must have dawned upon the girl, or else she was irritated by his acquiescence in her various phases of self-humiliation. All at once she dashed the tears from her eyes, and winding herself out of his arms, exclaimed: "See here, George Bancroft! I'll jest learn all they know pianner and all. I ken, and I will. I'll begin right now. You'll see!"
"Arline and Ruth haven't been on friendly terms since the night of Arline's dinner at Vinton's," Grace remarked soberly. "It isn't Ruth's fault. She is heartbroken over the estrangement. This is the first difference she and Arline have ever had." "Such a ridiculous thing to quarrel over," sniffed Elfreda.
Here was permanent estrangement, comfortless formality, cold, compulsory esteem; but there was no treachery in the household, no malignant hate, no base revenge. But Hector Garret would not rest: he had far less or far more energy than his wife; he walked his lands a moody, harassed man.
"What I am about to tell you is known only to three persons, and is the most sacred of secrets. Nothing but our friendship could authorise me to impart it to you." "I hope it is something to your advantage," said his companion. "Nothing of that sort; it is of yourself that I am thinking. Since our political estrangement, I have never had a contented moment.
Tom Rainsfield, in the meantime, had learnt from his sister-in-law the cause of John's estrangement; and deeply sympathising with his friend, he made his visits to Fern Vale as frequent as possible, to cheer and enliven him in his dullness.
"'MY DEAR BROTHER," began the doctor, "'I am growing an old woman now, and in spite of the good reasons I had for ceasing to write, or to communicate with you in any way, I do not feel that I can keep up the estrangement from my own flesh and blood any longer. "'If you like to let bygones be bygones, I, on my side, am quite willing to do the same.
To me the appointment of Gutzkow as the director of dramatic art at the theatre was peculiarly objectionable, as it was not long before I was convinced of his utter incompetence for the task, and it was probably owing to the frankness with which I expressed my opinion to Luttichau that our subsequent estrangement was originally due.
He did not know what to do, and on the following day May Lawton encountered him again, and proved by her demeanour that the episode of the previous afternoon had caused no estrangement. Lionel vacillated.
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