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"I have plenty of compliments, but very seldom a word that makes me feel that I have spoken to the heart. I feel as if I had called in the darkness and had no response, or like one who has cried from the house-tops to a city of the dead." "And I so often thought of writing to you, but did not like to intrude," cried Hadria. "Ah! if you only had written to me!" Miss Du Prel exclaimed.
If, at any time, I can be of service to you, don't forget how great a pleasure it would be to me to render it. I hope if ever I come back to England " "When you come back," Hadria corrected, hastily. "that we may meet oftener." "Indeed, that will be something to look forward to!" They exchanged the hearty, lingering handshake of trusty friendship and deep affection.
Lady Engleton was looking much amused and a little dismayed, when she and her companions rejoined the party. "I never heard anyone say so many dreadful things in so short a space of time," she cried. "You are distinctly shocking." "I am frank," said Hadria. "I fancy we should all go about with our hair permanently on end, if we spoke out in chorus."
Hadria inwardly exclaimed, as she stood watching the coming and going of people, the spouting of fountains, the fluttering of big sycamore leaves in the Champs Elysées. Unhappily, the solitude made difficulties. But meanwhile there was a large field to be explored, where these difficulties did not arise, or could be guarded against. Her sex was a troublesome obstruction.
Hadria always gave Miss Temperley much opportunity for the employment of tact, finding this tact more elucidating than otherwise to the designs that it was intended to conceal; it affected them in the manner of a magnifying-glass. About a couple of years ago, the death of her mother had thrown Henriette on her own resources, and set free a large amount of energy that craved a legitimate outlet.
The letter announced the failure of the Company. It was the final blow. Dunaghee would have to be given up. Mrs. Fullerton's settlement was all that she and her husband would now have to live upon. Hadria sat gazing at the letter, with a dazed expression. Almost before the full significance of the calamity had been realized, a telegram arrived, announcing that Mrs.
Her presence and inspiration seemed to produce, on his ability, a sort of cumulative effect. Henriette set all the familiar machinery in motion; pressed the right button, and her brother became brilliant. A slight touch of diffidence in his manner softened the effect of his usual complacency. Hadria liked him better than she had liked him on his previous visit.
They stood looking at one another. "In heaven's name, what is the meaning of this? Am I to be hated for a sin committed years ago, and long since repented? Have you no breadth of sympathy, no tolerance for erring humanity? Am I never to be forgiven? Oh, Hadria, Hadria, this is more than I can bear!" She was standing very still and very calm. Her tones were clear and deliberate.
There was to Hadria, a personal as well as a general significance in each sentence, that made her listen breathlessly for the next. "How would you define a good woman?" she asked. "Precisely as I would define a good man," replied the Professor. "Oh, I think we ask more of the woman," said Valeria. "We do indeed!" cried Hadria, with a laugh.
"There are few things in this wide world that can be mentioned in the same breath with them, but toffy also has its potency upon the spirit." "I like not this mocking tone." "Then I will not mock," she said. "Yes, Hadria," he went on meditatively, "you have grown up, if an old friend may make such remarks, very much as I expected, from the promise of your childhood.
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