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"Start with hate, passionate love, indifference, revolt, disgust what you will all husbands at the end of a year inspire the same feeling, one of complacent monotony that is, if they are not altogether brutes and from the description of madame, ce jeune Gurrage is at least un brave garçon." I am of a practical nature, and a thought struck me forcibly. When could Mr. Gurrage have made the demande?
I had found, he hoped, that his conseils had been of some use to me in my brief married life. "Yes, Marquis," I said, "I have often been grateful to you and grandmamma." "You are of a great richesse now, n'est-ce pas, mon enfant?" "Yes, of a richesse. And so I have given all the Gurrage money back to one of their family you may remember her Amelia Hoad was her name."
This thought would never have come if Mrs. Gurrage had not passed into another sphere of mental living. I would not have wounded her for the world. I settled all the details in my mind, on my voyage home, and no sooner got to London than I executed them. The law is a slow and delaying business, and even a deed of gift requires endless formalities to go through. Amelia was overcome.
I am encouraged to grieve, especially in public. Mrs. Gurrage herself put on black, and her face beamed all over with enjoyable tears the first Sunday we rustled into the family pew stiff with crêpe and hangings of woe. They gave grandmamma what Miss Hoad I mean Amelia called a "proper funeral." And so all is done even the Marquis has gone back to France, and only Roy is left.
It would be bad enough to have to go through the usual period of formal fiançailles of the sort I have always been brought up to expect but to endure being made love to by Augustus Gurrage! That was enough to daunt the stoutest heart. However, having agreed to obey grandmamma, I could not argue. I only waited for directions. There was a pause, not agreeable to any of us, and then grandmamma spoke.
I had a feeling that I, too, meant to live when the period of my mourning should be over; and how glorious to live and to forget that I had ever even had the name of Gurrage! I would give the whole of Augustus's fortune to Amelia; then she would gain by it, and I, too, would have the satisfaction of feeling that my marriage was an episode, a year to be blotted out of my life.
This situation was fully explained to him, and he understood and kept us to the bargain. I have endeavored in every way to fulfil my side, but in it I never contemplated a supervision of his letters." "Oh, indeed! And why couldn't you love him, pray? A finer young man doesn't live for miles round," Mrs. Gurrage said, with great offence. The other questions seemed in abeyance for the moment.
We saw carts and a carriage going to meet them at the station. Their liveries are prune and scarlet, and look so inharmonious, and they seem to have crests and coats of arms on every possible thing. Young Mr. Gurrage is our landlord but I think I said that before. On Sunday in church the party entered the Ledstone family pew.
By the end of the visit we had been invited to view all the glories of The Hall. When they had gone grandmamma said to me, in a voice that always causes my knees to shake, "Why did you not make a révérence to Mrs. Gurrage, may I ask?" "Oh, grandmamma," I said, "courtesy to that person! She would not have understood in the least, and would only have thought it was the village 'bob' to a superior."
A sickening disgust overwhelmed me. And there would be no Lady Tilchester to save me to-night! "Open the window," I said to Atkinson, "and persuade Mr. Gurrage to go to bed when he wakes." And I left the room. All my guests were assembled when I got into the first drawing-room. Indeed, it was twenty minutes to nine. Mrs. Dodd had the air of an aggrieved turkey-gobbler.
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