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She went up to Barbara's bedroom, where Barbara, still dressed, sat reading over the fire. "Come in, you darling," Barbara said. She got up and crouched on the hearthrug, leaving her chair for Fanny. Fanny came in and sat down. "Barbara," she said, "what's all this about Horatio and Mrs. Levitt?" "I don't know," said Barbara flatly, with sudden presence of mind. "I said you didn't.
"Charmingly, indeed," echoed Sophia. "And Mrs Levitt was saying, that Margaret seems to have grown quite handsome, this summer. I fancy Mrs Rowland gets very few to agree with her as to Margaret being so very plain." "No, indeed. Margaret's countenance is so intelligent and pleasant that I always said, from the beginning, that nobody but Mrs Rowland could call her plain.
Levitt's door and by the shrill "Good nights" called out from its threshold and answered up the street The merry bridge parties and the little suppers were no more. Even the Rector's geniality grew more and more Christian and perfunctory, till he too left off stopping to talk to Mrs. Levitt when he met her in the street. Mr.
Levitt on the grounds that she was "well connected"; she knew all his sister's people. And Mrs. Levitt took good care to let Mr. Waddington know of these visits, and of her little bridge parties in the evening. "Just Mr. Thurston and Mr. Hawtrey and Major Markham and me." He was teased and worried by his visions of Elise perpetually surrounded by Thurston and Hawtrey and the Major.
Birmingham would be safer because more unlikely. He didn't know anybody in Birmingham. But the very thought of Mrs. Levitt calling at the Manor on the same commonplace footing, say, as Mrs. Grainger, was destruction to all this romantic secrecy. Also he was afraid that if Mrs. Levitt were really that sort of woman, Fanny's admirable instinct would find her out and scent the imminent affair.
It was risky, but it showed a masterly boldness and presence of mind. It was as if she and Fanny Waddington had had their eyes fixed on a live scorpion approaching them over the lawn, and Mrs. Levitt had stooped down and grasped it by its tail and tossed it into the lavender bushes. As if Mrs. Levitt had said, "My dear Mrs.
Levitt's letters to him. He left her to gather their crude substance from his admirable replies. "'MY DEAR MRS. LEVITT: "'I am afraid I must advise you to give up the scheme if it depends on my co-operation. I thought I had defined my position "Defined my position is good, I think." "It sounds good," said Barbara. "'That position remains what it was.
She knew that Dr Levitt called on the Hopes full as often as at any house in Deerbrook; and that Mrs Levitt had offered to take some of Margaret's plants into her greenhouse, to be nursed through the winter.
It was awful of me. But what could I do?" "What could you do? We all do it. I do it. Mrs. Levitt did it." "I didn't do it like Mrs. Levitt." "No. But you were just one more. Think of it. All his life to be laughed at. And when he was making love, too; the most serious thing, Barbara, that anybody can do. I tell you I can't bear it. I'd have given him to you ten times first."
Emeralds. She would be all black and white and sparkling green. A necklace, he thought, wouldn't hang on her; it would be laid out, exposed on that white breast as on a cushion. You could never tell what a woman was really like till you'd seen her in a low-necked gown. It made Mrs. Levitt ten times more alluring. He smiled at her, a tender, brooding, rather fatuous smile. Mrs.
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