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Gibson hurrying towards the cathedral, down the passage which leads from Southernhay into the Close. "He's just come from Heavitree, I'll be bound," said Miss Stanbury to Martha, who was behind her. "Like enough, ma'am." "Though they do say that the poor fool of a man has become quite sick of his bargain already." "He'll have to be sicker yet, ma'am," said Martha.
"I'm sure they won't find themselves mistaken in what they trust to," said Dorothy, with a spirit that her aunt had not expected from her. Miss Stanbury at this time had told nobody that the offer to her niece had been made and repeated and finally rejected; but she found it very difficult to hold her tongue. In the meantime Mr. Gibson spent a good deal of his time at Heavitree.
He had been so mauled by the opposite waves, that he had neither spirit nor skill left to him to keep in the middle track. He was almost daily at Heavitree, and did not attempt to conceal from himself the approach of his doom. But still there were two of them. He knew that he must become a prey, but was there any choice left to him as to which siren should have him?
I hope I need not tell you that whenever it may suit you to pay a visit to Exeter, your room will be ready for you, and there will be a warm welcome. Mrs. MacHugh always asks after you; and so has Mrs. Clifford. I won't tell you what Mrs. Clifford said about your colour, because it would make you vain. The Heavitree affair has all been put off; of course you have heard that. Dear, dear, dear!
"He gets her and the money together as a bargain of course," said Camilla. "I only hope the money won't be found too dear." "Perhaps he won't get it after all," said Arabella. "That would be cruel," replied Camilla. "I don't think that even Miss Stanbury is so false as that." Things were going very badly at Heavitree.
"Your time will come, I've no doubt," continued Mr. Gibson. "Everybody has always told me that it would be so. Even her oldest friends knew it. You ask Mrs. MacHugh, or Mrs. French, at Heavitree." "Mrs. French!" said Brooke, laughing. "That would hardly be fair evidence." "Why not? I don't know a better judge of character in all Exeter than Mrs. French.
I must really take steps to find out whether Gresham was well informed about his reputed wealth. I shall ride down and take a look at 20 Heavitree Gardens to-morrow. I haven't met a single man at the Club who has ever heard of him. Lady G. It's no use: if he should turn out a pauper, or even a swindler, I am afraid Elaine will marry him.
Dorothy, though she put the question again in its most alluring form of Christian charity and forgiveness, could not induce her aunt to say that she would see Mr. Gibson. "How can I see him, when you know that Sir Peter has forbidden me to see anybody except Mrs. Clifford and Mr. Jennings?" Two days afterwards there was an uncomfortable little scene at Heavitree.
Gibson were to make his way into her aunt's room. Her aunt was constantly alluding to the ladies at Heavitree, in spite of all the efforts of her old servant to restrain her. "There was some little misunderstanding," said Mr. Gibson; "but all that should be over now. We both intended for the best, Miss Dorothy; and I'm sure nobody here can say that I wasn't sincere."
In the afternoon Brooke Burgess went over to the further end of the Close, and called on Mrs. MacHugh; and from thence he walked across to Heavitree, and called on the Frenches. It may be doubted whether he would have been so well behaved to these ladies had they not been appealed to by Mr. Gibson as witnesses to the character of Miss Stanbury. He got very little from Mrs. MacHugh.
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