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Updated: June 23, 2025
For some weeks Egremont enjoyed the peace of rural life, and the intercourse with the Gerards ripened into friendship. When the time came for parting, for Egremont had to take his seat in parliament, it was a tender farewell on both sides. Egremont, embarrassed by his deception, could not only speak vaguely of their meeting again soon. The thought of parting from Sybil nearly overwhelmed him.
Above the Gerards, in one of the mansards upon the sixth floor, lived a printer named Combarieu, with his wife or mistress the concierge did not know which, nor did it matter much. The woman had just deserted him, leaving a child of eight years.
Gerard gave the rising signal, and Selwyn was swept away in the rushing herd of children, out on to the veranda, where for a while he smoked and drew pictures for the younger Gerards.
He had given up going out made no further pretense; and Boots let him alone. Once a week he called at the Gerards', spending most of his time while there with the children.
Yes, it was thus that one should love! Hereafter he would flee from all temptations; he would pass all his evenings with the Gerards; he would keep as near as possible to his dear Maria, content to hear her speak, to see her smile; and he would wait with a heart full of tenderness for the moment when she would consent to become his wife.
At least, honest-hearted fellow that he was, he avowed his humble origin without shame, boasted of his humble friends the Gerards, praised Louise's goodness, and spoke enthusiastically of little Maria, who was just sixteen and so pretty. "You will take me to see them some time, will you not?" said Maurice, who listened to his friend with his natural good grace.
We must, however, confine our remarks to those of the old buildings which offered him an asylum that could boast a hiding-place. Trent House was one of these. The very fact that it originally belonged to the recusant Gerard family is sufficient evidence. From the Gerards it passed by marriage to the Wyndhams, who were in residence in the year we speak of.
"Yes," he said, thinking of the tragedy which had left the child so utterly alone in the world, save for her brother and a distant kinship by marriage with the Gerards. For a while he sat brooding, arms loosely folded, immersed once more in his own troubles.
The bitterness of the thought that he had known this poor girl in her innocence and youth, and the Gerards' name spoken in such a place, filled the young man's heart with a singular sadness. He could only say to Rosine, in a voice that trembled a little with pity: "You! Is it you?" Then she became red and very embarrassed, lowering her eyes.
There were over a hundred people both old and young, and even then the ballroom oh, yes, the Gerards have a ballroom looked half empty. We danced from ten o'clock until four in the morning, and went for a picnic the next day. Imagine! "Fanny looked beautiful. She wore a lovely white dress without a touch of color on it, and it just set off her wonderful dark hair to perfection.
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