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Updated: June 5, 2025
She was very glad to be quite alone, free to think her own thoughts, free to brood over those unforgotten years in which she had wandered over the face of the earth with her father and Valentine Hawkehurst. Alas for Diana, the battered book was only an excuse for solitude, and for a morbid indulgence in her own sad thoughts!
Hawkehurst?" asked the irresistible enslaver, putting her head on one side, in a manner which, for the protection of weak mankind, should be made penal. "I will try my uttermost," answered Valentine. "O, then I'm sure you will succeed. And we shall be amused by your deliciously bitter criticisms between the acts. One would think you had studied under Douglas Jerrold." "You do me too much honour.
In fact, I am sure Charlotte would not marry without her mother's consent," answered Valentine, thoughtfully. "And of course that means my brother Philip's consent," exclaimed George Sheldon, with contemptuous impatience. "What a slow, bungling fellow you are, Hawkehurst!
"If you ask me plainly whether I like the turn which Charlotte's illness has taken within the last few weeks, I must tell you frankly, I do not. There is a persistent want of tone a visible decay of vital power which, I must confess, has caused me some uneasiness. You need apprehend no neglect on my part, Hawkehurst; all that can possibly be done is being done. Dr.
If I pleased, Mr. Valentine Hawkehurst, I could tell you something about my brother which would enable you to estimate his generosity at its true value. But I don't please; and if you choose to run counter to me and my interests, you must pay the price of your folly. You may think yourself uncommonly lucky if the price isn't a stiff one."
And Valentine's heart is in his profession, and he will work for us." "As long as I have a hand that can write, and a brain that can guide my pen," interposed Mr. Hawkehurst, gaily. "I have given hostages to Fortune.
Before her twentieth birthday, the proudest woman is apt to regard the man she loves as a grand and superior creature; and there had been a certain amount of reverential awe mingled with Diana's regard for Mr. Hawkehurst, scapegrace and adventurer though he was. Little by little that bright girlish dream had faded away.
"My daughter seems to have made new friends for herself, and I should like to see what kind of people they are," he said conclusively. "We'll look them up this evening, Val." Mr. Hawkehurst were announced. "Be good enough to take me straight to her," said the Captain to the boy in buttons; "I am her father."
Charlotte was delighted with Diana's friend. It was not thus that she had hoped to meet Valentine Hawkehurst. She stole a look at him now and then as he walked by her side.
Hawkehurst never made his appearance at the villa more than once in the same week, though the "once a week or so" asked for by Charlotte might have been stretched to a wider significance. When Valentine obtained orders for the theatre, he sent them by post, scrupulously refraining from making them the excuse for a visit.
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