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Her death was felt by all of us as that of a member of our family, and she lies in the Protestant cemetery at Florence by the side of her former master, and of the young mistress whom she had loved as a child of her own. The next to go was Mr. Garrow. His death was a very sudden and unexpected one. He was a robust and apparently perfectly healthy man. I was absent from home when he died.
Mr. Garrow then sat down, very tired of this preliminary work, and wondering when he should have the luck to conduct such a case as Hardie v. Hardie; and leaned forward to be ready to prompt his senior, a portly counsel, whom Mr. Compton had retained because he was great at addressing juries, and no point of law could now arise in the Case.
It would be telling him that you would be his wife. He would understand it so, and so would your mother and I. It must be so understood altogether." "But, papa, when we were at Liverpool " "I have told him everything, dearest," said Mrs. Garrow. "I think I understand the whole," said the Major; "and in such a matter as this I will not give you counsel on either side.
"There is that touch of the absurd about it," said Reckage, "which makes it difficult for a friend to come forward. To pursue a man on his wedding journey " "It is no laughing matter," put in Lord Garrow; "and if the woman has deceived the poor fellow, it's a monstrous crime." "Oh, she hasn't; she couldn't deceive him," said Pensée. "I know her intimately."
"It is among the vexations brought upon me by my illness, that I still remain personally unacquainted with Miss Garrow, though seeming to myself to know her through those who actually do so.
"I do believe that she loves me, and if she does, perhaps she may still listen to you." Major Garrow did not feel sure that he "knew it all." But when he had fully discussed the matter that night with his wife, then he thought that perhaps he had arrived at that knowledge.
Garrow had for a while thought it better that the young man should not come. But Bessy would not permit this. It would vex her father, put out of course the arrangements of other people, and display weakness on her own part. He should come, and she would endure without flinching while the fox gnawed at her.
"What is the matter?" asked Lord Garrow, who was following close upon her heels. "Life," she said, "life! That is all that ever does matter." "Ain't you happy?" "No, but I have it in me to be happy an appalling capability. Let us say no more about it. I must join myself to eternity, and so find rest."
He spoke no further word to her as he walked home, but in handing her down to the ferry-boat he pressed her hand. For a second it seemed as though she had returned this pressure. If so, the action was involuntary, and her hand instantly resumed its stiffness to his touch. It was late that night when Major Garrow went to his bedroom, but his wife was still up, waiting for him.
Garrow, though she had known him since he was a boy, had taken an aversion to him since he had quarrelled with her daughter; but there was no room on this first night for showing such aversion, and everything went off well. "Godfrey is very much improved," the Major said to his wife that night. "Do you think so?" "Indeed I do. He has filled out and become a fine man."
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