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And if we were to go out of the usual course, do you conceive that the gentlemen on the other side would fail to notice it?" "Which shall it be then?" "I'm quite indifferent. If the memory of either of these two persons is doubtful, and after twenty years it may be so, Mr. Furnival will discover it." "Then on the whole I'm disposed to think that I'd let him take the man."
In her ignorance of the law she could only imagine what might or might not happen to her at any moment, and therefore the words which Sir Peregrine had spoken relieved her rather than added to her fears. And then Mr. Furnival began his tale, and gradually put before her the facts of the matter.
Mrs. Furnival perhaps had no sufficient grounds for those terrible fears of hers; but nevertheless the mistress of Orley Farm was very comely in the eyes of the lawyer. Her eyes, when full of tears, were very bright, and her hand, as it lay in his, was very soft.
The words, however, which he uttered would not take the guise of indifferent observations, but fell flatly on their ears, and at the same time solemnly, as though spoken with the sole purpose of creating sound. "I hope you have been enjoying yourself at Birmingham," said Mrs. Furnival. "Enjoyed myself! I did not exactly go there for enjoyment." "Or at Romford, where you were before?"
Under such circumstances as those Lady Mason must of course have been innocent as touching Mr. Furnival. "Yes," said Sophia. "There is no doubt whatsoever that they were engaged. Sir Peregrine told Lady Staveley so himself." "And now it's all broken off again?" "Oh yes; it is all broken off now. I believe the fact to be this.
Furnival had been an excellent husband, going forth in the morning to his work, struggling through the day, and then returning to his meagre dinner and his long evenings of unremitting drudgery. The bodily strength which had supported him through his work in those days must have been immense, for he had allowed himself no holidays. And then success and money had come, and Mrs.
What in the world is there so beautiful and so lovely as a high tone of moral sentiment?" To this somewhat transcendental question Mrs. Furnival made no reply. That a high tone of moral sentiment as a thing in general, for the world's use, is very good, she was no doubt aware; but her mind at the present moment was fixed exclusively on her own peculiar case.
Post-marks now-a-days are very clear, and everybody may know whence a letter comes. His letters had been brought to him by the butler; but was it not probable that that ancient female servant might have seen them first, and have conveyed to her mistress intelligence as to this post-mark? If so ; and Mr. Furnival almost felt himself to be guilty as he thought of it.
Furnival, though his hair was grizzled and his nose was blue; nor did she ever think of attracting to herself the admiration of any swain whose general comeliness might be more free from all taint of age. Why then should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five? That he did wander afield, poor Mrs.
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