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She went off abroad with her father, who had made a fortune here; but when he got over there he lost it nearly all in some way. Years after she married this Jerseyman, Mr. Leverre, who had been fond of her as a girl, and she brought up his child as her own. Mrs.
'But I don't see how anything can hender the wedden now. 'Avice, you know, had fancies; at least one fancy for another man; a young fellow of five-and-twenty. And she's been very secret and odd about it. I wish she had raved and cried and had it out; but she's been quite the other way. I know she's fond of him still. 'What that young Frenchman, Mr. Leverre o' Sandbourne?
'Well, that was how the acquaintance between the children began, and their passionate attachment to each other. She detailed how Avice had induced her mother to let her take lessons in French of young Leverre, rendering their meetings easy.
We love each other beyond expression, and it is obvious that, if we are human, we cannot resist marrying now, in spite of friends' wishes. Will you please send the note lying beside this to my mother. It is merely to explain what I have done Yours with warmest regard, HENRI LEVERRE. Jocelyn turned away and looked out of the window. 'Mrs.
Leverre the mother of the young gentleman Miss Avice has run off with. 'Yes I'll see her, said Pierston. He covered the face of the dead Avice, and descended. 'Leverre, he said to himself. His ears had known that name before to-day. It was the name those travelling Americans he had met in Rome gave the woman he supposed might be Marcia Bencomb.
He did not turn his head. He knew it was Avice, with Henri Leverre by this time, he supposed, her husband. Her remorseful grief, though silent, seemed to impregnate the atmosphere with its heaviness. Perceiving that they had not expected him to be there Pierston edged back; and when the service was over he kept still further aloof, an act of considerateness which she seemed to appreciate.
'Last night at ten o'clock I went out, as you may have guessed, to see Mr. Leverre for the last time, and to give him back his books, letters, and little presents to me. I went only a few steps to Bow-and-Arrow Castle, where we met as we had agreed to do, since he could not call. When I reached the place I found him there waiting, but quite ill.
Leverre; that she had a step-son, her husband having been a Jersey gentleman, a widower; and that the step-son seemed to be a promising and interesting young man. Pierston was instantly struck with the perception that these and other allusions, though general, were in accord with the history of his long-lost Marcia.
Unconsciously Pierston turned in the direction of the creek, without regarding whether Marcia followed him, and though it was darker than when Avice and Leverre had descended in the morning he pursued his way down the incline till he reached the water-side. 'Is that you, Jocelyn? The inquiry came from Marcia. She was behind him, about half-way down.
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