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"I shall be very much obliged to you," said Janetta, feeling grateful and yet a little startled it did not seem natural to her in her sweet humility that Sir Philip and his mother should interest themselves in her welfare. "Oh, very much obliged." Sir Philip raised his hat and smiled down kindly upon her as he said good-bye. He had been interested from the very first in Margaret's friend.
"Did she want him to marry you?" said Janetta, in some amaze. "It doesn't seem likely, does it?" said Mrs. Brand, with a sharp, heartless little laugh. "But she sets up for having a conscience now and then. I was a girl in a shop, I may tell you, and Wyvis made love to me without the slightest idea of marrying me. Then Mrs.
"What sort of a man would you prefer for a husband, then?" asked Janetta. "Oh, a man with a history. A man about whom there hung a melancholy interest a man like Rochester in 'Jane Eyre' " "Not a very good-tempered person, I'm afraid!" "Oh, who cares about good temper?" "I do, for one. Really, Margaret, you draw a picture which is just like my cousin, Wyvis Brand."
Perhaps Lord Nelson himself; I would go and be seasick for three days to see Lord Nelson. Papa, it must be Lord Nelson." "My dear, Lord Nelson is a little, short man, with a very brisk walk, and one arm gone. Now let me see who this can be. Whereabout is he now, Janetta?" "Do you see that clumsy-looking schooner, papa, just behind a pilot-boat?
"And so," she went on, "you said all this to my poor child; harrowed her feelings and wounded her self-respect, and insisted on it that she should go round Beaminster explaining that it was her fault and not Janetta Colwyn's that Miss Polehampton acted in so absurdly arbitrary a manner!"
Don't refuse without considering the matter, I beg of you." Janetta shook her head. "No consideration will make any difference." "I know that I am not attractive," said her suitor, after a moment's pause, in a somewhat bitter tone. "I have not known how to woo how to make pretty speeches and protestations but for all that, I should make, I believe, a very faithful and loving husband.
They were supposed to be golfing, but they staid out till long after it was possible to see balls or holes; and Miss Williams was beginning to be a little uneasy, when they all three walked in, David and Janetta with a rather sheepish air, and Helen beaming all over with mysterious delight.
There was no other way out of the difficulty, and neither of them was inclined to be content with happiness, leaving duty unfulfilled. So he took the largest house in St. Andrews, and brought to it Janetta and Helen, till David Dalziel could claim them; likewise his own two orphan boys, until they went to Oxford; for he meant to send them there, and bring them up in every way like his own sons.
Brand did not say much; she sat with him in her lap looking excessively pained and grieved; and that frozen look of pain upon her face made Janetta long but long in vain to comfort her. Tea was brought in by-and-bye, and then Julian was dismissed to his nursery whither he went reluctantly, holding his face up to be kissed by Janetta, and asking her to "come back soon." And when he was gone, Mrs.
But you know I think, Wyvis, that some people have not got it in their nature to be true friends to anyone. And perhaps it was not quite in Margaret's nature." "I agree with you," said Wyvis, more gravely than he had spoken hitherto. "She has not your depth of affection, Janetta your strength of will. You have been a very true and loyal friend to those you have loved."
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