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You are very much agitated; you want rest." He was right. I could stand no longer; I dropped into the chair. Major Fitz-David rang the bell, and spoke a few words to the servant at the door. "I have been here a long time," I said, faintly. "Tell me if I am in the way." "In the way?" he repeated, with his irresistible smile. "You forget that you are in your own house!"
I cannot account for the extraordinary inconsistency in my character which this confession implies. I can only describe the facts as they really were. The singing went on upstairs. Major Fitz-David still waited impenetrably to hear what I had to say to know what I resolved on doing next. Before I had decided what to say or what to do, another domestic incident happened.
Events had separated me from Major Fitz-David, after the date of the dinner-party which had witnessed my memorable meeting with Lady Clarinda. From that time I heard little or nothing of the Major; and I am ashamed to say I had almost entirely forgotten him when I was reminded of the modern Don Juan by the amazing appearance of wedding-cards, addressed to me at my mother-in-law's house!
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