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Leave that to your friends those high in position. Your place is here. Whenever Lady Gowan wakes, she must find you at her bedside. There, I will leave you now. Absolute quiet, mind. Sleep is the great thing. I will come in again in about three hours. The nurse knows what to do."
"Yes; I travel with a strong escort to Harwich, where I am to take ship and cross." "Of course we are going with you, Robert," said Lady Gowan. Sir Robert was silent for a few moments, and Frank stood watching him anxiously, eager to hear his reply. "No," he said at last. "I am driven out of the country, and it would not be right to take you with me now." "Robert!" cried Lady Gowan.
Oh, my dear boy, you must not join in any plot. You must not yes, yes, it is your duty to try and save his life, come what may," cried Lady Gowan. "Hush, mother! Pray be calm," whispered Frank. "Now listen. You will not be asked to do anything but this." "Yes, yes. What, dear?" she said, in a sharp whisper. "No: wait a moment." She made an effort to regain her composure, and at last succeeded.
The cheerful tone gave way to a more dubious one; Dolly's whimsical messages were fewer and farther between, and sometimes Miss MacDowlas seemed to be on the verge of hinting that her condition was a weaker and more precarious one than even she herself had at first feared. Ralph Gowan, on making his friendly calls, and hearing this, was both anxious and puzzled.
It was not easy to recover this shock and make the visit unrestrained, even though Fanny had not been, under the best of circumstances, the least trifle in the way. In such further communication as passed among them before the sisters took their departure, Little Dorrit fancied it was revealed to her that Mr Gowan treated his wife, even in his very fondness, too much like a beautiful child.
"Well, mother, we quarrelled. Drew is so hot-tempered and passionate." "And you are perfectly innocent, and free from all such attributes, I suppose, sir," cried Lady Gowan sarcastically. "Oh no, I'm not, mother," said the lad bluntly, as he felt he would give anything to get away. "I've got a nasty, passionate temper; but I'm all right if it isn't roused and Drew will keep on till he rouses it."
'As to that, said Edward Dorrit, Esquire, 'I'll give you the means of judging for yourself. You are acquainted, perhaps, with the famous name of Merdle? 'The great Merdle! exclaimed Mrs General. 'They are known to him. Mrs Gowan I mean the dowager, my polite friend's mother is intimate with Mrs Merdle, and I know these two to be on their visiting list.
"The spirit of Vagabondia is strong in Tod," said Dolly, who at the time was standing near Gowan upon the hearth-rug, with her own coffee-cup in hand; "its manifestation being his readiness to accommodate himself to circumstances." Through the whole of the evening Mollie and the camellias shone forth with resplendence.
I am sure I cannot help watching her myself, sometimes. She grows prettier every day of her life, and she is beginning to know that she does, too." Five minutes after this the small face was drawn away from the window-pane with a sigh of relief. "There she is now. What a time she has been! Who is with her, I wonder? I cannot see whether it is Phil or Mr. Gowan, it is getting so dark.
And poor Phemie and the gentleman who made love to you all the evening, Dolly. What was his name? Was n't it Gowan?" Griffith's eyes turned toward Dolly that instant. "Gowan!" he exclaimed. "You didn't say anything about him. You didn't even say he was there." "Did n't she?" said Mollie, looking up with innocently wide-open eyes. "Why, he made love to her all "
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