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And when Miss Headworth showed herself much concerned about the state of things, Nuttie coaxed her, and declared that she should fancy herself unwelcome, and have to go and beg a lodging somewhere instead of enjoying her reprieve. And Aunt Ursel was far less impervious to coaxing than she used to be when she was the responsible head of a boarding house.
She had never thought of such a frightful loss or grief, and her mental senses were almost paralysed, so that she went through the journey in a kind of surface trance, observing all around her much as usual, looking out for the luggage and for the servant who had come to meet them with the report 'No change. She did the honours of the carriage, and covered Miss Headworth with the fur rug.
Miss Headworth laughed, and said she ought to be flattered that an old woman's sore throat should be thought worthy of mention by a fine young gentleman like Mr. Mark. 'A very good young man he is, she added. 'You would never have thought how kind he is in coming in here to tell me everything he hears about your dear mother, Nuttie. 'He makes himself very useful while Mr.
'I see that, said Miss Headworth, with an effort. 'I suppose I am after all a selfish, faithless old woman, and it is not in my hands after all. But I must prepare my poor Alice for what may be coming. 'If any terms are offered to her, she had better put the matter into a lawyer's hands. Dobson would be a safe man to deal with.
Presently he said, 'Then hers was a right instinct. There is reason to be thankful. Miss Headworth was too full of her own anxieties to heed his causes for thankfulness. She told what she had heard from Lady Kirkaldy and from Mark Egremont, and asked counsel whether it could be Alice's duty to return to the man who had deserted her, or even to accept anything from him.
'I quite understand and respect your feeling, Miss Headworth, returned the lady; 'but may I return to my question whether you think your niece has any doubt of her husband being dead. Miss Headworth considered. 'Since you ask me, I think she has kept the possibility of the life before her.
'I suppose there is no question but that they must go with him! said Miss Headworth wistfully. 'Assuredly. You say he this Egremont was affectionate, said Mr. Dutton quietly, but Mary saw his fingers white with his tight clenching of the bar of the chair. 'Oh yes, warmly affectionate, delighted to find her prettier than ever, poor dear; I suppose he meant it.
'He has three curates, and a house of Sisters, and works the parish excellently. 'You don't speak as if you were intimate. 'No. His womankind are rather grand quite out of our beat; and in parish work I am only an estimable excrescence. It is very well that I am not wanted, for Miss Headworth requires a good deal of attention, and it is only the old Adam that regrets the days of importance.
I was a fool to expect to get any good out of him! This was said to his daughter, with whom he was left alone; for Miss Headworth could not bear to accept his hospitality a moment longer than needful, and besides had been so much shaken in nerves as to suspect that an illness was coming on, and hurried home to be nursed by Mary Nugent.
'How was it, how did they meet, dear Miss Headworth? asked Mary, administering the wine she had been pouring out. 'You hadn't been gone half an hour, Alice was reading to me, and I was just dozing, when in came Louisa. "A gentleman to see Mrs. Egremont," she said, and there he was just behind.
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