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Yes, she had meant that; that she was going to marry Hardinge! But to know what Hardinge means! A torturing vision of a little lovely figure, gowned all in white of a little lovely face uplifted of another face down bent! No! a thousand times, no! Hardinge would not speak of that it would be too sacred; and yet this awful doubt "Look here. I'll tell you," says Hardinge's voice at this moment.
He seems, indeed, so entirely unimpressed by Hardinge's last remark, that it may reasonably be supposed he hasn't heard a word of it. "And she?" says he. "Perpetua. Does she " He hesitates, as if finding it impossible to go on. "Oh! I don't know," says the younger man, with a rather rueful smile.
If the girl had realized the fact of his love for her, she might have been touched and influenced by it, but as it is she feels only a sense of anger towards him. Anger unplaced, undefined, yet nevertheless intense. "With pleasure," says she to Sir Hastings, smiling at him almost across Hardinge's outstretched hand. The latter draws back. "You dismiss me?" says he, with a careful smile.
Hardinge's his father's sister's daughter and with her he always staid in his own annual visits to attend the convention of the Church I beg pardon, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as it is now de rigueur to say; I wonder some ultra does not introduce the manifest improvement into the Apostles' Creed of saying, "I believe in the Holy Protestant Episcopal Catholic Church, &c." but, the excellent divine, in his annual attendance on the convention, was accustomed to stay with his kinswoman, who often pressed him to bring both Lucy and Grace to see her; her house in Wall street being abundantly large enough to accommodate a much more numerous party.
"And I suppose the knowledge that Lucy is likely to inherit some of the old Bleecker estate, has not in the least diminished her chance of finding a husband to remove her from the paternal custody of her father?" "No husband could ever make Lucy anything but Mr. Hardinge's daughter; but you are right, Miles, in supposing that she has been sought.
Rupert is not exactly what I could wish him to be in all things, and possibly he may be coxcomb enough, at times, to fancy he has this slight advantage over you, but, as for Lucy, I'll engage she never thinks of you but as a second brother and that she loves you exactly as she loves Rupert." Mr. Hardinge's simplicity was of proof, and it was idle to think of making any impression on it.
At the Cabinet room read a long and excellent letter of Hardinge's respecting the state of Ireland. The 87th Regiment at Newry, when paraded for church, refused to march without music, to which it had been accustomed in the south. It had been discontinued in the north to avoid displeasing the Orangemen.
I cannot better characterize Mr. Hardinge's preaching, than by saying, that I do not remember ever to have left his church with a sense of fear towards the Creator; though I have often been impressed with a love that was as profound as the adoration that had been awakened.
Whilst the Morley-Minto reforms had disappointed the political expectations of the Western-educated classes, the measures adopted in several of the self-governing Dominions to exclude Indian immigration, and, especially in South Africa, to place severe social and municipal disabilities on Indians already settled in some of the provinces of the Union, had caused still more widespread resentment, and nothing did more to strengthen Lord Hardinge's hold upon Indian affection than his frank espousal of these Indian grievances, even at the risk of placing himself in apparent opposition to the Imperial Government, who had to reckon with the sentiment of the Dominions as well as with that of India.
I should quite have enjoyed living with him, but he wouldn't hear of it. He he doesn't like me, I'm afraid?" Perpetua looks at him anxiously. A little hope that he will contradict Hardinge's statement animates her mind. To feel herself a burden to her guardian to anyone she, who in the old home had been nothing less than an idol!
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