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"I know," she admitted softly, "they said that twenty years ago, didn't they?" "Well, she's been on her back almost all the time during those twenty years. It's wonderful what she's borne her angelic patience. And, of course her hopes all hang on me now. She's got nobody else." "But I thought Miss Kesiah was so devoted to her." "Oh, she is she is, but Aunt Kesiah has never really understood her.
An hour afterwards, when Kesiah had seen her sister peacefully dozing, she went, for the first time since her return, into her own bedroom, and stood looking down on the hearth, where the servants had forgotten to light the sticks that were laid cross-wise on the andirons.
If you will come with me into the library," he added to Kesiah, "we will take a few minutes to look over the papers I have arranged." They moved away, walking side by side with halting steps, as though they were crushed by age, and yet were trying to the last to keep up an appearance of activity. For a minute Molly gazed after them.
Without that soft yet indomitable influence, he would never have lied in the beginning, would never have covered his faithlessness with the hypocrisy of duty. "You have been a great comfort to her, Mr. Chamberlayne," said Kesiah, breaking the silence at last. A low sound, half a sob, half a sigh, escaped the lawyer's lips. "A spirit like hers needs no other prop than her Creator," he replied.
In the midst of the long room flooded with sunshine, the little lady reclined on her couch and sipped gently from the glass Kesiah had handed her. The tapestried furniture was all in soft rose, a little faded from age, and above the high white wainscoting on the plastered walls, this same delicate colour was reflected in the rich brocaded gowns in the family portraits.
Driven by his unhappy passion, he complies with her demand, and she becomes a Church of England woman. But once married, Kesiah is too proud to permit the concealment that prudence demands. Though his father is sure to disinherit them, she insists upon revealing the marriage. Dorante entrusts his small stock of money to his wife's brother, Abimelech, in order to start him in trade.
It was foolish of men to make so much importance of kisses. "I'm sorry, but I can't. Don't ask me, Jonathan all the same you are a darling!" Then before he could detain her, she had slipped away from him through Kesiah's door, which she closed after her. "Aunt Kesiah," he heard her exclaim joyously, "Jonathan is going to take me to Old Church to spend to-morrow!"
And on the opposite side of the bed, between the long white curtains, Kesiah was thinking, "Because I've never lived, but have stood apart and watched life, I can understand." Turning away presently, Molly went to the door, where she stood waiting until the elder woman joined her. "Is Mr. Chamberlayne still with Aunt Angela?" she asked. "Yes.
"We feel a great concern for your future," said Kesiah. "Whatever we can do to help you, we shall do very gladly. I always felt a peculiar pity and sympathy for your mother." Her voice choked, for it was, perhaps, as spontaneous an expression of her emotions as she had ever permitted herself.
"Did they tell you his wishes?" she asked, turning from Reuben to Spot as the blind dog fawned toward her. "He wants you to live with Miss Kesiah and Mr. Jonathan when I'm taken away from you, honey, an' you're to lose all but a few hundred if you ever marry and leave 'em. Old Mr. Jonathan had sharp eyes, an' he saw I had begun to fail fast befo' he died.
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