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It was a person you know very well; a person we have been talking of this morning. O, Di, you must surely have understood me when I said I wanted you to like him for my sake!" "Valentine Hawkehurst!" exclaimed Diana. "Who else, you dear obtuse Di!" "He was in Yorkshire?" "Yes, dear. It was the most wonderful thing that ever happened.
Jedd to Valentine Hawkehurst as he said this. The physician's face told him no more than he might have learnt from a blank sheet of paper. Valentine's face was dark and gloomy; but that gloomy darkness might mean no more than natural grief. "I will take you to my stepdaughter's room at once," he said to the physician.
Ah, no, no, no; I do not think in all the complications of life there could come about a state of events which would cause my Charlotte to doubt me. There is no clairvoyance so unerring as true love." Mr. Hawkehurst had need of such philosophy as this to sustain him in the present crisis of his life.
George Sheldon gave himself an impatient shrug. "I have heard of a great many fools," he said, "but I never heard of a fool who would play fast-and-loose with a hundred thousand pounds, and until to-day I couldn't have believed there was such an animal." Mr. Hawkehurst did not deign to notice this remark. "Do be reasonable, Sheldon," he said.
I intend inviting my landlord a very superior person for his station to discuss a bottle of wine with me after my chop this evening, and hope to obtain some information from him. In the meantime I shall keep myself close. It is of vital consequence that I should remain unseen by Hawkehurst.
Valentine Hawkehurst had no vague yearnings after the fame of a Milton, no inner consciousness that he had been born to stamp out the footprints of Shakespeare on the sands of time, no unhealthy hungering after the gloomy grandeur of Byron. He had been brought up amongst people who treated literature as a trade as well as an art; and what art is not more or less a trade?
For three years Valentine Hawkehurst had lived in constant companionship with the Captain's daughter; and in that time his manner to her had undergone considerable variation. Of late it had been something in the manner of an elder brother, whose fraternal breast is impervious to the influence of a sister's loveliness or a sister's fascination.
It was only after responding to this promising offer that the applicant was informed that he must possess one indispensable qualification in the shape of a capital of five hundred pounds. Mr Hawkehurst laughed aloud when the Captain imparted this condition with that suave and yet dignified manner which was peculiar to him.
He determined on returning to the land of his birth. The Captain came, accompanied as usual by that plastic tool and subaltern, Valentine Hawkehurst, who, being afflicted with a chronic weariness of everything in life, was always eager to abandon any present pursuit in favour of the vaguest contingency, and to shake off the dust of any given locality from his vagabond feet. Sheldon.
Sheldon cared only to master the main facts contained in it, which were these: His wife had left him for ever. Dr. Jedd and Valentine Hawkehurst had told her of something something that affected the safety of her darling and only child and the knowledge of which must separate her for ever from him. Of the money which she had brought to him she claimed nothing.
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