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The exhaustion which had been driven back for the moment by food and excitement returned upon her with paralysing force. Helbeck woke to a new and stronger alarm. He half led, half carried her through the hall, on the way to Augustina. At the foot of the stairs, as Laura was making a tottering effort to climb them with Helbeck's arm round her, Mrs.
She could recall with trembling many a strange moment in Helbeck's presence, or in the chapel, when she had seemed to feel her whole self breaking up, dissolving in the grip of a power that was at once her foe and the bearer of infinite seduction. But always the will, the self, had won the victory, had delivered a final "No!" into which had rushed the whole energy of her being.
But clearly things had fallen by now to a much lower depth. Miss Helbeck's dress, talk, lodgings, all spoke of poverty, great poverty. He himself had never known what it was to have a superfluous ten pounds; but the feverish strain that belongs to such a situation as the Helbecks' awoke in him a new and sharp pity.
As he turned over a bridge, and then into his own gate on the further side, he passed an old labourer who was scraping the mud from the road. "Have you seen any carriage go by just lately, Reuben?" "Noa " said the man. "Theer's been none this last hour an more nobbut carts, an t' Whinthrupp bus." Helbeck's pace slackened.
Was it that they were all except Father Bowles affected by the presence of the young lady on Helbeck's right by the cool detachment of her manner, the self-possession that appealed to no one and claimed none of the prerogatives of sex and charm, while every now and then it made itself felt in tacit and resolute opposition to her environment?
She talks of going to a dance up there after Easter next Thursday, I think." "At the farm?" Helbeck's tone was incredulous. "No; at the mill or somewhere. She says the schoolmaster is giving it, or something of that sort. Of course it's most unsuitable. But what am I to do, Alan? They are her relations!" "At the same time they are not her class," said Helbeck decidedly.
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