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Her father had taken no step towards any effort for the rescue of his son, and she would sorely need help in what she must herself try to do. She could say nothing to the major about lord Gartley, or the influence her brother's behaviour might have on her future: that would not be fair either to Gartley or to the major; but might she not ask him to help her to find Corney?
It is righteousness not of words, not of theories, but in being, that is, in vital action, which alone is the prince of the power of the spirit. Where that is, everything has its perfect work; where that is not, the man is not a power is but a walker in a vain show. He did not see through or even into Gartley who was by no means a profound or intentional hypocrite.
Within three months from the burial of Mrs. Braddock, the widower had removed himself and his collection to Gartley, and had renamed his new abode the Pyramids. Here he dwelt quietly and enjoyably from his dry-as-dust point of view for ten years, and here Lucy Kendal had come when her education was completed.
As her brother grew better, and things became easier, the thought of lord Gartley came oftener, with something of the old feeling for the man himself, but mingled with sadness and a strange pity. She would never have been able to do anything for him!
The major laid down his halfcrowns so cheerfully, with such a look of satisfaction even, that she came quite to like the man, and to hope he would be there for some time, and prove as fond of cribbage as she was. The fear of lord Gartley as to the malign influence of the major vanished entirely.
A pang of fear for Hester in the power of "that ape Gartley" would now and then pass through him; but he had now a right to look after her, and who can tell what might not turn up! His host congratulated him on looking so much better for his walk, and Hester recounted to her mother their strange conversation.
Having got the two bedsteads extracted piecemeal from the disorganized heaps in his back shop, he and Hester together proceeded to carry them home and I cannot help wishing lord Gartley had come upon her at the work no very light job, for she went three times, and bore good weights.
Either he must get rid of him, or leave his daughter to manage her own affairs. He is quite American in his way of looking at those matters." "Don't you think he is right, mother? If I let lord Gartley come, surely he is not to blame for coming! "Only if you should have got fond of him, and it were to come to nothing?"
If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse! The mother still carried in her soul the child born of her body, preparing for him the new and better, the all-lovely birth of repentance unto life. Hester had not yet said a word about her own affairs. No one but the major knew that her engagement to lord Gartley was broken.
So the time went on till after the twelfth night, when Miss Vavasor took her leave for a round of visits, and lord Gartley went up to town, with intention thereafter to pay a visit to his property, such as it was. He would return to Yrndale in three weeks or a month, when the final arrangements for the marriage would be made.
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