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The silent service my words had given him to know that Hesper's heart was offering to him was not enough; he must hear it articulate, his nostrils craved an actual incense. To gain this he must deceive two his friend, and her whose poor face would kindle with hectic hope, at the false words he must say for the true words he must hear.
For, while the said beholders could hardly have been astonished at Hesper's marrying Mr. Redmain, there would, had Mary done such a thing, have been dismay and a hanging of the head before the face of her Father in heaven.
With a look almost of disgust, she began to pull off the dress, in which, a few hours later, she would yet make the attempt to enchant an assembly. "O ma'am!" cried Mary, "I wish you had told me yesterday. There would have been time then. And I don't know," she added, seeing disgust change to mortification on Hesper's countenance, "but something might be done yet."
Hitherto Hesper had never been satisfied without Sepia's opinion and final approval in that weightiest of affairs, the matter of dress; but she found in Mary such a faculty as rendered appeal to Sepia unnecessary; for she not only satisfied her idea of herself, and how she would choose to look, but showed her taste as much surer than Sepia's as Sepia's was readier than Hesper's own.
For some time she had been trying to get nearer to Hesper, but much like Hesper's experience with her had found herself strangely baffled, she could not tell how the barrier being simply the half innocence, half ignorance, of Hesper. When minds are not the same, words do not convey between them. She gave a ringing laugh, throwing back her head, and showing all her fine teeth.
For one thing, she had known nothing of what went on in her nursery, positively nothing of the real character of the women to whom she gave the charge of it; and although, I dare say, for worldly women, Hesper's schoolmistresses were quite respectable what did her mother, what could she know of the governesses or of the flock of sheep all presumably, but how certainly all white? into which she had sent her?
All I know is that a gleam as from some far-off mirror of admiration did certainly, to Tom's great satisfaction, appear on Hesper's countenance. As, however, she said nothing, he, to waive aside a threatening awkwardness, lightly subjoined: "Queen Anne is all the rage now, you see." Mrs.
The eyes are more untamable than the tongue. When the wild beast can not get out at the door, nothing can keep him from the windows. The eyes flash when the will is yet lord even of the lines of the mouth. Not a nerve of Hesper's quivered.
She was busy pinning and unpinning, shifting and pinning again, when suddenly Hesper said: "I suppose you know I am going to marry money?" "Oh! don't say that. It's too dreadful!" cried Mary, stopping her work, and looking up in Hesper's face. "What! you supposed I was going to marry a man like Mr. Redmain for love?" rejoined Hesper, with a hard laugh. "I can not bear to think of it!" said Mary.
"I should like to see it on first," said Mary: she was in doubt whether the color bright, to suggest the brightest of sunset- clouds would suit Hesper's complexion. Then, again, she had always associated the name Hesper with a later, a solemnly lovely period of twilight, having little in common with the color so voluminous in the background.
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