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It would scarcely be proper for me, as Mr. Kurston's affianced wife, to listen to all the ravings and protestations he is sure to indulge in." In this supposition Clementina was mistaken. Philip Lee took the news of her engagement to his wealthy rival with blank calmness and a civil wish for her happiness.
A passionate burst of tears, an utter abandonment of distress, and the infatuated husband was willing to promise anything everything that his charmer demanded that is, for the time; for Athel Kurston's influence was really stronger than her step-mother's, and the promises extorted from his lower passions were indefinitely postponed by his nobler feelings.
However though she knew it not no one regarded her as Mr. Kurston's heir; indeed, nothing in her father's conduct sanctioned such a conclusion. True, he loved her dearly, and had spared no pains in her education; but he never took her with him into the world, and, except in the neighborhood of the Chace, her very existence was not known of.
Kurston's presentiment of death was no delusive one; he sank gradually during the following week, and died his last word, "Remember!" being addressed, with all the strong beseeching of a dying injunction, to Philip Lee. A free woman, and a rich one, Mrs. Kurston turned with all the ardor of a sentimental woman to her first and as she chose to consider it her only true affection.
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