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Updated: June 11, 2025
At first Croft had been prompted to ignore all knowledge of the cashier, and meet her as a stranger, but his better sense prevented this, for how could he know what she had been saying about him. "I was about to introduce you to my cousin," said Keswick, "but I see that you already know each other."
Can you tell me, sir, how long a man must stay away from his wife before he can be legally charged with desertion?" "No, madam, I can not," said Lawrence. "The laws, I believe, differ in the various States." "Well, I'm going to make it my business to find out all about it," said Mrs Keswick.
"That ought to prove to you," said Keswick, "that she does not desire your attentions. You should consider it as a positive answer." "Not at all," said Lawrence, "not at all. And I don't think you would consider it a positive answer if you were in my place.
It happened one day in midwinter that business took me as far as Keswick, and I shall never forget the astonishment and delight of that visit.
But when she saw Junius advance and shake hands in a very friendly way with Mr Croft, her terror began to decrease, although her surprise continued at the same high-water mark, and Keswick found himself in a flood of the same emotion when Croft very politely saluted his cousin by name, which salutation was returned in a manner which indicated that the parties were acquainted.
This bench, which was always shady in the morning, she had had placed there that she might comfortably direct the labors of old Isham, the boy Plez, or whoever, for the time being, happened to be her gardener. Mr Croft did not immediately begin the statement of the business which had brought him to see Junius Keswick.
If Mrs Keswick should come to know Roberta, that knowledge would do more than anything else in the world to remove her objections to the marriage he so greatly desired. He said nothing of all this to his niece; but he most earnestly counselled her to accept the invitation and make a visit to the two ladies.
That morning, however, I walked home, and before I reached Keswick my eye was quite well, but I felt unwell all over. Yesterday I continued unusually unwell all over me till eight o'clock in the evening.
Lawrence's face flushed and he made a step forward, but suddenly checking himself, he looked at the man for a moment and then said: "I suppose you want me to understand that if I become one of your subscribers in my own name, you will be willing to withhold the information you intended to give Mr Keswick." "Well," said the man, relapsing into his former confidential tones, "business is business.
I consider it to be but a matter of days when my niece and Mr Keswick, with the full approbation of the relatives on either side, will renew in the eyes of the world that engagement which I consider still exists in fact." "If this is so," said Lawrence, grinding his heel very deeply into the ground, "why was I not told of it?"
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