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Moreover, when she thought of what Ethelberta would have replied had that keen sister known the wildness of her true reason in wishing to go, she shuddered with misery.
'I was one of the applicants for the post of assistant-organist at Melchester Cathedral when it became vacant, and I find I am likely to be chosen, through the interest of one of my father's friends. 'I congratulate you. 'No, Ethelberta, it is not worth that. I did not originally mean to follow this course at all; but events seemed to point to it in the absence of a better.
It became evident to all the family that some misunderstanding had arisen between Ethelberta and Mr. Julian. What Picotee hoped in the centre of her heart as to the issue of the affair it would be too complex a thing to say.
You cannot have celebrity and sex-privilege both. Thus Ethelberta laughed off the awkward conjuncture, inwardly deploring the unconscionable maternal meddling which had led to this, though not resentfully, for she had too much staunchness of heart to decry a parent's misdirected zeal.
Christopher was evidently imagining the elderly gentleman to be some retired farmer, or professional man already so intermixed with the metamorphic classes of society as not to be surprised or inconvenienced by her beginnings; one who wished to secure Ethelberta as an ornament to his parlour fire in a quiet spirit, and in no intoxicated mood regardless of issues.
Before this picture sat Ethelberta in a light linen dress, and with tightly-knotted hair now again Berta Chickerel as of old serving out breakfast to the rest of the party, and sometimes lifting her eyes to the outlook from the window, which presented a happy combination of grange scenery with marine.
However, it was too late now to muse on this, and it may be added that from first to last Ethelberta never discovered from the Belmaines whether her proposal had been an infliction or a charm, so perfectly were they practised in sustaining that complete divorce between thinking and saying which is the hall-mark of high civilization.
'What does this mean, Ethelberta? she inquired in tones from which every shade of human expressiveness was extracted by some awful and imminent mood that lay behind. 'It means what it says, said Ethelberta quietly. 'Then it is true? 'Yes. I must apologize for having kept it such a secret from you.
This was the building which Ethelberta had visited earlier in the day: it was the Petit Trianon of Enckworth Court. The viscount left her side and hurried forward. The door of the building was opened by a woman. 'Have you prepared for us, as I directed? 'Yes, my lord; tea and coffee are both ready. 'Never mind that now. Lady Mountclere is ill; come and assist her indoors.
Picotee, you may as well come inside; if he means to call he will; but he ought to be here by this time. It was only once more, and that some time later that she again said 'Listen! 'That's not the noise of a carriage; it is the fizz of a rocket. The coastguardsmen are practising the life-apparatus to-day, to be ready for the autumn wrecks. 'Ah! said Ethelberta, her face clearing up.
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