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It was renewed, and Harry burst into a fit of laughter at some fun of one of the Conley girls. The Countess passed on, and met Juliana pacing by herself near the lower gates of the park. She wished only to see how Juliana behaved. The girl looked perfectly trustful, as much so as when the Countess was pouring in her ears the tales of Evan's growing but bashful affection for her.
Then she, herself, struck him to the ground, and sitting in his chamber, sick and weary, on the evening of his mishap, Evan's sole desire was to obtain the handkerchief he had risked his neck for. To have that, and hold it to his heart, and feel it as a part of her, seemed much.
Raikes were less keen at the moment than Evan's, but his openness to ridicule was that of a man on his legs solus, amid a company sitting, and his sense of the same when he saw himself the victim of it acute. His face was rather comic, and, under the shadow of embarrassment, twitching and working for ideas might excuse a want of steadiness and absolute gravity in the countenances of others.
As the echoes of Evan's last appeal rang and died in the universal uproar, the fiery vault over his head opened down the middle, and, reeling back in two great golden billows, hung on each side as huge and harmless as two sloping hills lie on each side of a valley.
His gaiety presently forsook him as quickly as it had come. Instead of remonstrating at Evan's restlessness, it was he who now dragged Evan from spot to spot. He spoke low and nervously. 'We're watched ! There was indeed a man lurking near and moving as they moved, with a speculative air. Writs were out against Raikes. He slipped from his friend, saying: 'Never mind me.
The results of this small passage of arms were, that Evan's disclosure at Fallow field was annulled in the mind of Harry Jocelyn, and the latter gentleman became the happy slave of the Countess de Saldar.
My diplomatist praises my abilities Sir John Loring my style the rest follow and I do not withhold my smiles, and they are happy, and I should be but that for ungrateful Evan's sake I sacrificed my peace by binding myself to a dreadful sort of half-story. I know I did not quite say it. It seems as if Sir A.'s ghost were going to haunt me.
As to this, Juliana was sufficiently open, though, as she conceived, her art was extreme. 'Do you know why I stay to vex and trouble you? she asked Caroline. 'Well, then, it is that I may see your brother united to you all: and then I shall go, happy. Twice a week a bunch of the best flowers that could be got were sorted and arranged by her, and sent namelessly to brighten Evan's chamber.
Raikes has spent it, I can't lend it, and you haven't got it, and there we all are. At the end of the year he's free, and he ha! ha! I'm not a bit the merrier for laughing, I can tell you. Catching another glimpse of Evan's serious face, Andrew fell into louder laughter; checking it with doleful solemnity.
But now, as if the Fates had been lying in watch to entrap her and chain her, that they might have her at their mercy, her dreams of Evan's high nature hitherto dreams only were to be realized.
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