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"Nearer the dragon of the Hesperides, perhaps," said Fulk, laughing. "Is he with you now?" "No; he has gone back to Oxford. He is in his second year; and whether he takes to medicine or to art is to be settled by common-sense or genius." "Oh, but if he has genius?" began Jaquetta eagerly. "That's the question," said Mr. Cradock, laughing.
I came down so glad, and it was so pleasant to see Emily, in her white dress, leaning over my father while he had gone so happily into his old delight of showing his prints and engravings; and Torwood, standing by the fire, watching them with the look of a conqueror, and Jaquetta like the absurd child she loved to be teasing them with ridiculous questions about their housekeeping.
She asked no questions, attempted no employment, but seemed to care for nothing, and for weeks uttering nothing but a "yes," "no," or a mechanical "thank you." Jaquetta tried to caress her, by force of nursing and pity. Jaquetta really had come to a warm tender love for her, but she sullenly pushed away the sweet face, and turned aside.
Jaquetta started round and laughed. No doubt she was looking like an Arcadian; but I as from under the trees I saw two gentlemen on the other side of the little stream, and jumped up to come to her defence I must have looked more like a displeased if not draggle-tailed duchess, for there was an immediate disconcerted begging of our pardons, and a hasty departure.
He had a great ox in the Smithfield Cattle Show, and met our Lupton uncles there not as an unsuccessful man. And I? I had a dim feeling that Alured would soon cease to need me, and Jaquetta would not be claimed for a long time; and if But in the midst of that I saw a haggard face driving in the park by the side of a little, over-dressed, faded woman.
And unprepared as my sisters are, it would be impossible to ask you to stay in the house." She was always a little subdued by my brother's manner; I think its courtesy and polish almost frightened her, high-spirited, resolute woman as she was. "I understand," she said, with a stiff, cold tone. Jaquetta heard the echo of it, and wondered.
Our Lupton uncles came, and were frightfully shocked and incredulous; at least, Uncle George was. Uncle Lupton himself remembered something of my father having told him of a former affair in America. They would not let Jaquetta and me go to the funeral; and they were wise, for Hester thrust herself in but it is of no use to think about that.
Jaquetta, whose young friendships had been broken short off, because the poor girls really did not know how to correspond with her under present circumstances, took to Mrs. Cradock with eager enthusiasm, and tripped across the park to her two or three times a week, and became delightedly interested in all her doings, parochial or otherwise.
Even then we did not perceive what this involved. I felt stunned and numbed chiefly from seeing the great shock it had been to my father and to him; but poor little Jaquetta and Emily were altogether puzzled; and Jaquetta said, "But is this sister of ours such a very disagreeable person, Torwood? Why didn't you bring her in and show her to us?"
Moreover, instead of attending to Alured, he was always trying to flirt with Jaquetta, infinitely disturbing Arthur Cradock's peace; and the end of it was, that Alured was a great deal more left to his own devices than ever he had been before, and exasperated besides. He was in that mood, when one day, as he was riding along the lanes, he met Perrault and Trevor coming in from hunting.
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