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Hamilton walked to the door and threw it open with a gesture that compelled obedience. The next moment, however, he recoiled with a low exclamation of horror; for there, drawn up against the wall, in a strange half-crouching attitude, as though petrified with terror, was his miserable cousin. I heard Leah's shocked 'Miss Etta! How could you be so mad? And then Mr.
"Yes," faltered Leah, "he is the one that tells me he loves me." "And do you love him, Leah?" said Lizzie, with some hesitation. The curtain that continued fluttering with renewed force was wafted full into the face of the young Jewess, and veiled the crimson blushes that overspread it. As gently as it came, the curtain floated back, and Lizzie detected the traces of Leah's sudden emotion.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
I heard Leah's voice approaching the study door with perfect calmness. 'Miss Etta has gone up to bed, sir, I heard her say; 'she has a headache: that is what makes her eyes so weak. 'I should have said myself that she was crying, returned Mr. Hamilton drily. 'Come in here a moment, Leah; I want to speak to you.
If you had been sensible I would have told you my reasons; but you chose to aggravate me, and I said a precious lot more than I meant. There, go to sleep and forget it" evidently a rough attempt to be conciliatory; but Leah's sad and weary face told its own tale the next morning.
Malcolm slept restlessly; he was tired and anxious, and had done a hard day's work. His failure to influence Cedric troubled him greatly. "They will talk him over," he repeated, "and that woman will lure him into her wiles again;" and Malcolm felt there was grave cause for fear, as he remembered Leah's rare beauty, and the strange brilliancy of her dark, melancholy eyes.
Cedric's head was sunk on his arms, and his whole frame was convulsed with suppressed emotion; but when Malcolm put his hand on his shoulder, he started up as though beside himself. "This is your doing," he said furiously. "I will never forgive you, Herrick never! Oh!" as midnight chimed from a church near "this is our wedding-day : Leah's and mine, and you have hidden my bride away!
But the morning passed just as usual: nothing happened to interrupt the quiet course of Adele's studies; only soon after breakfast, I heard some bustle in the neighbourhood of Mr. Rochester's chamber, Mrs. Fairfax's voice, and Leah's, and the cook's that is, John's wife and even John's own gruff tones. There were exclamations of "What a mercy master was not burnt in his bed!"
But as he proceeded with his story, and she heard of Leah's noble act of self-sacrifice, her mood changed and her eyes filled with tears. Malcolm fancied that he heard her say softly under her breath, "She loved much, because much has been forgiven her." But the climax of their wonder seemed reached when Malcolm told them that Leah was at the Manor House.
Leah's door, and telling her that important business required his presence in New York, whither he should be gone a few days, he started for the depot, just as the sun was rising; and, that night, Mrs. Elliott, his sister, was surprised to hear that he was in the parlor, and wished to see her.
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