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Updated: June 10, 2025
I went to the Jewish wedding and enjoyed myself, for there is something at once solemn and ridiculous about the ceremony; but I resisted all Leah's endeavours to get me once more into her meshes.. I hired a close carriage from her father, which with the horses I placed in the coach-house and stables of my new house.
'I do not know who you are, and yet you must be a friend. 'I am Ursula Garston, a very close friend of your sister Gladys, and I have been nursing her in this last illness. 'What! has she been ill? he asked anxiously. And when I had given him full particulars he questioned me again about Leah's confession, and I had to repeat all I could remember of her words.
'You must not think I am ungrateful for the news you have given me, only it has made me restless. 'Hush! there is some one coming down the shrubbery, I returned, dropping her hand, and going quickly into the road. As I did so, I heard Leah's smooth voice address Gladys: 'You were so, late, ma'am, that I thought I had better step down to the cottage, for fear you might be waiting for me.
"That poor woman, a worn-out theater beauty, is without guile. What can this mean?" He had rightly judged the good-hearted Leah's concern, and he never knew of the long hours of the discarded mistress' ministrations to the "reigning beauty." Timorous at heart, Leah Einstein's evil career had been only one of petty wheedling craft, and an easy self-surrender.
Although the Mazzoli was by no means pretty, she was extremely complaisant, and had several girls at her house for me to see; but I did not think any of them worthy of occupying Leah's place. I fancied I no longer loved Leah, but I was wrong.
I had never heard more energetic opinions, and I had never seen a more voluptuous sight. I began the work, and while Leah aided me to the best of her ability, I forced the gate, and on Leah's face I read the most acute pain and pleasure mingled. In the first ecstasy of delight I felt her tremble in every limb.
'Thornton says Miss Darrell has been crying, and has not eaten a mouthful of breakfast, went on Chatty; but I silenced these imprudent communications. It was quite evident that I was a bone of contention in the household, and that Mr. Hamilton would have some difficulty in subduing Leah's contumacy. I wrote to Ellen Watson that morning, and soon received a rapturous acceptance of my invitation.
'She is your maid, is she not, Etta? 'Yes; but, Giles 'And Chatty always waits on my sisters. It is certainly not Leah's business to wait on the turret-room. 'Leah, raising his voice a little, as Leah came downstairs with a tray of linen, 'I want to speak to you a moment. Miss Garston has undertaken to nurse my sister, and all her orders are to be carried out.
And Malcolm was right, for before long the news of Leah's marriage reached them. "I am so glad Mrs. Godfrey told me that," went on Elizabeth. "I want every one to be as happy as we are to-night. But for saying good-bye to Die and Mr. Carlyon I should not have a care. I can think of David without sadness, and life looks so beautiful.
'If you are not more punctual in your payments I will go to the master myself and tell him. But here I knocked sharply at the door to warn them of my presence, and Leah ceased abruptly, while Miss Darrell bade me enter. She tried to meet me as usual, but her face was flushed, and she looked at me uneasily, as though she feared that I had overheard Leah's speech.
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