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"It would not hurt you, and it is really rather nice," returned Alick apologetically. "It is horrid," said Learn. "Well, perhaps you are better without it," Alick answered, quietly taking the bottle of prussic acid from her hands and replacing it on the shelf, well barricaded by phials and pots. "You should not have taken it till I gave it you," said Leam proudly. "You are rude."
"I have done with hate," she answered. "It is not my business what papa likes to do." "Sensible at last!" cried Mr. Dundas with a half-mocking, half-kindly triumph in his voice. Leam turned pale. "But you must not think that I forget mamma as you do," she said with emphasis, her lip quivering.
Corfield, bustling into the room and noting how the thin cheek had flushed and how bright and feverish the hollow eyes of her invalid were looking. "You know the doctor says you are not to be excited or tired. It is the worst thing in the world for you." "I am neither, mother: don't alarm yourself," he answered; "but I must have a little talk with Leam. I have not seen her for so long.
Only Leam began to look pitifully mournful and desolate, and to shrink back into a solitude which Edgar never invaded, and whence even Alick was banished; and Edgar was irritable, unpleasant, moody, would take no interest in the approaching marriage, and, save that his settlements on Josephine were liberal, seemed to hold himself personally aggrieved by her choice, and conducted himself altogether as if he had been injured somehow thereby, and his wishes disregarded.
"How is that?" he asked, "I knew you from your photograph once seen not to be forgotten again," gallantly "but how should you know me?" Leam raised her eyes from the ground where she had cast them. Those slow full looks, intense, tragic, fixed, had a startling effect of which she was wholly unconscious. Edgar felt his own grow dark and tender as he met hers.
"I hope your elder daughter is well," then said Edgar, emphasizing the adjective, the vision of Leam as he first saw her, breasting the wind, filling his eyes with a strange light. "Leam? Quite well, thanks. But how do you know anything about her?" was Sebastian's reply. "I met her yesterday on the moor, and Rover introduced us," answered Edgar laughing.
While North Aston was employing its time in wondering, and Alick Corfield was breaking his heart in sorrowing, Leam was doing battle with her despair and distress at Windy Brow doing the best she could to keep her senses clear and to live through the penance which she had inflicted on herself. So far, Mrs.
And it is so kind of you to care whether I am awkward or not." "I do not see the kindness," returned Learn gravely. "Do you see those two spooning?" asked one of the Fairbairn girls, pointing out Leam and Alick to Edgar, the curtain being now held back by Leam to show the world that she was there, not caring to look as if hiding away with Alick.
Nothing short of the worship due to the great god Society could have made her control herself so admirably; but Adelaide was a faithful worshiper of the divine life of conventionality, and she had her reward. Leam showed nothing, at least nothing directly overt.
I like her quite well enough to take care of her." "Now, Adelaide, you have vexed him," said Josephine in dismay as Edgar strode back to where Leam remained waiting for him. "I have done my duty," said Adelaide, drawing her lips into a thin line and lowering her eyebrows; and her friend knew her moods and respected them.
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