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But when we got down here this afternoon, and there was nothing from you, both Miss Hallin and Edward felt sure you had not heard and I walked over. It was a most painful, distressing scene, and he is very ill." "But you have brought him to the Court?" she said trembling, lost in the thought of Hallin, her quick breath coming and going. "He was able to bear the journey?
"Hallin will be in the river," said Marcella, irresolute. "If he is, Sir George will fish him out. Besides, I believe Sir George and Ancoats have gone for a walk, and Hallin with them. I heard Maxwell tell Hallin he might go." Marcella turned an uncertain look upon Lord Fontenoy and Mrs. Allison.
While, as for Hallin's distrust, and Anthony Craven's jealous hostility, why should a third person be bound by either of them? Could any one suppose that such a temperament as Wharton's would be congenial to Hallin or to Craven or to yet another person, of whom she did not want to think? Besides, who wished to make a hero of him?
"Will you tell him, mamma, about Mr. Hallin? and how good he has been to me?" Then her voice failed her, and, hurriedly leaving her mother at the top of the stairs, she went away by herself to struggle with a grief and smart almost unbearable. That night passed quietly at the Court.
As for Hallin, he sat lost in pleasant dreams of a whitewashed Wharton, comfortably settled at last below the gangway on the Conservative side, using all the old catch-words in slightly different connections, and living gaily on his Lady Selina.
So Marcella's confession made in the abandonment, the blind passionate trust, of a supreme moment bore no fruit. It went with Hallin to the grave. "I think I saw the letters arrive," said Mrs. Boyce to her daughter. "And Donna Margherita seems to be signalling to us." "Let me go for them, mamma." "No, thank you, I must go in." And Mrs. Boyce rose from her seat, and went slowly towards the hotel.
We won't say a word more except about Lady Selina. Have you seen her?" "Three or four times." "What is she like?" Marcella hesitated. "Is she fat and forty?" said Hallin, fervently she beat him?" "Not at all. She is very thin thirty-five, elegant, terribly of her own opinion and makes a great parade of 'papa." She looked round at him, unsteadily, but gaily. "Oh!
Then he stood on one foot, and looked Letty over with a considering eye. "Are you going to a party?" he said suddenly, putting out a small and grimy finger, and pointing to her dress. "Hallin! come here and have your tea," said his mother, hastily. Then she turned to Letty with the smile that had so often won Maxwell a friend.
I think your Marcella is beautiful, and as interesting as she is beautiful. There!" Aldous started, then turned a grateful face upon him. "You must get to know her well," he said, but with some constraint. "Of course. I wonder," said Hallin, musing, "whom she has got hold of among the Venturists. Shall you persuade her to come out of that, do you think, Aldous?" "No!" said Raeburn, cheerfully.
'He'll murder you, Nuss! said the sister, 'if he sees you! Don't come in! he's mad he's been going round on 'is 'ands and knees on the floor!" Hallin interrupted with a shout of laughter. Marcella laughed too; but to his amazement he saw that her hand shook, and that there were tears in her eyes.
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