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But he was not so much in love as to be unconscious of the most graceful way of making it; consequently, he knew exactly what he was doing and how he looked and what he said, while Leam, sitting there by his side, drinking in his words as if they were heavenly utterances, forgot all about herself, and lived only in her speechless, her unfathomable adoration of the man she loved.
"I want her to learn; and this is a good opportunity," put in her father. "You are right. It is a capital exercise and a graceful accomplishment," said Edgar. "I think a woman never looks better than when she is skating," he added carelessly. "I think she looks silly," said Leam. He laughed. "That is because you are not English pur sang," he cried gayly.
Grave, quiet, laconic, direct, she was but a modification of the former Leam as they had known her Leam, Pepita's daughter, and with blood in her veins that was not the ordinary blood of the ordinary British miss. Her father's artistic perceptions were gratified as he met her at the station and Leam turned her cheek to him voluntarily with tears in her eyes.
On looking again at the Rothay, I find I did it some injustice; for at the bridge, in its present swollen state, it is nearer twenty yards than twenty feet across. Its waters are very clear, and it rushes along with a speed which is delightful to see, after an acquaintance with the muddy and sluggish Avon and Leam.
So the time passed, miserably enough to the one, if full of hope and the promise of joy to the other; and the wedding morning came whereon Sebastian Dundas was to be made, as he phrased it, happy for life. It had been madame's desire that Leam should be her bridesmaid. She had laid great stress on this, and her lover would have gratified her if he could.
The face of Leam Dundas, mournful, passionate, concentrated as it was, had struck his imagination struck it as none other had done since the time when he had met that grand and graceful woman wandering, lost in a fog, in St. James's Park, and had protected from possible annoyance till he had landed her in St. John's Wood.
She spoke with the utmost contempt that she could manifest. At all events, if Edgar married Leam Dundas, she would have her soul clear. He should never be able to say that he had gone over the edge of the precipice unwarned. She at least would be faithful, and would show him how unworthy his choice was. "Well, I don't know," he drawled. "Do you think she would have me if I asked her?"
"Yes," he said, "that is my dream at least one of them. I would not care how small the place might be, if I had supreme control and might work unhindered in my own way." "It will come," said Mr. Gryce cheerily. "All things come in time to him who knows how to wait." "Ah, if I could believe that!" sighed Alick, thinking of Leam. "Take my word for it," returned Mr. Gryce.
It seemed the assertion of superior intelligence, contemptuous, if half pitiful of her ignorance. Once so serenely convinced of her superiority, Leam was now as suspicious of her shortcomings, and was soon abashed. Edgar did not see that he had troubled her. Masterful and masculine to an eminent degree, the timid doubts and fears of a young girl were things he could not recognize.
When her grief had grown too great for her strength, then she could take counsel with herself whether the fire of life was worth the trouble of keeping alight, or might not rather be put out without more ado. Leam was not dedicated to peace to-day.
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