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Kilroy at Ilverthorpe on Wednesday, and it will just cover my expenses." "This is the first I have heard of the visit," Dan ejaculated. "I only decided to go this afternoon," Beth replied. "You decided without consulting me? Well I'm damned if you shall go; I shall not allow it." "The word 'allow' is obsolete in the matrimonial dictionary, friend Daniel," Beth rejoined good-humouredly.
"I had better go on from where I left off," she replied, her confidence returning. "I told you about the accident on the river, and his finding out who I was, and his contempt for me; and I told you I desired most sincerely to win his respect, and you advised me to go to him and endeavour to do so. Well, I went." She paused, and Mr. Kilroy looked hard at her; his face was flushed now.
"So am I," said Diavolo, with a sigh of satisfaction. "Let us have afternoon tea with you here to-day, Mr. Ellis," Angelica coaxed. "It's so much more sociable. And I want to talk to Mr. Kilroy." She jumped up in her impetuous way, plumped down again on a low stool in front of that gentleman, clasped her hands round her knees, and looked up in his face as she spoke.
"Really, Angelica," he broke off laughingly, "I quite forget every now and again that we are romancing. You must write this story for me.". "We are not romancing," she said impatiently, "and I couldn't write it, it is too painful. Besides, we don't seem to get any further." "Let me see where we were?" Mr. Kilroy replied, humouring her good-naturedly. "It is a pity you cannot unmarry yourself.
"He is really very good," she said to herself "far too good for me. I don't think I ever could have married anybody else." But there was something dubious, that resembled a question, in this last phrase. The next day was hopelessly miserable out of doors raining, gusty, cold. Mr. Kilroy was not sorry.
"Now, that is significant," said Angelica, jeering. "Society is so demoralized that if a man is caught conducting himself with decency and honour on all occasions when a woman is in question, you involuntarily exclaim that he is an exceptional man!" Mr. Kilroy smoked on in silence for some time with his eyes fixed on the quiet stars.
"There are various kinds of forgiveness," Mr. Kilroy replied. "There is the forgiveness that washes its hands of the culprit and refuses to be further troubled on his behalf the least estimable form of forgiveness; and there is that which proves itself sincere by the effort which is afterward made to help the penitent, that is the kind of forgiveness you should try to secure."
She felt tired and confused: it was an effort to put her thoughts together. She rose and handed the hat to Miss Kilroy, who took it with a suppressed smile. "I'm sorry; I'm afraid I am not well," she said to the forewoman. Miss Haines offered no comment. From the first she had augured ill of Mme. Regina's consenting to include a fashionable apprentice among her workers.
"Dawne, you had better wait here for the children. They won't be late this afternoon, I am sure, because Mr. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe is here, and Angelica likes him to talk to." "Ah, now you do surprise me," said Dr. Galbraith, "for I should have thought that Mr. Kilroy was the last person in the world to interest Angelica." "And so he is," Mr.
Kilroy uttered a low exclamation, and hung his head as if in shame. The colour had fled from his face, leaving it ghastly gray for a moment like that of a dead man. Angelica half rose to go to him, fearing he would faint, but he had recovered before she could carry out her intention. She looked at him compassionately.
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