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"After his death I got my father's leave to go and study at Louvain. I passed there the most wretched years of my life. Father Lewin's death had thrown me into an extraordinary dejection, which seemed to have taken from me all the joy of my faith; but at Louvain I came very near to losing it altogether.
She submitted angrily, passionately regretting the man whose presence had long been the brightest element in her life. Her cheek paled; she grew indifferent to the amusements which had been her sole occupation; she sulked in her rooms, equally avoiding her children and their aunt; and, indeed, seemed to care for no one's society except Mrs. Lewin's.
At the last moment she saved both herself and me. She sent for one of my old Jesuit masters at Stonyhurst, a man who had been a great friend of Father Lewin's and happened to be at that moment in Brussels. He came. He brought me her last farewell, and he asked me to go back with him that evening to join a retreat that he was holding in one of the houses of the order near Brussels.
"Here a moment ago," said one of the carpenters. "He went out after Miss Lewin's song began. I think he's gone round the other side." I dashed round to the O.P. corner again. He had just left. Taking up the trail, I went to his dressing-room once more. "You're just too late, sir," said Richard; "he was here a moment ago." I decided to wait. "I wonder it he'll be back soon."
Kirkland talk of a husband who would have her waste her beauty upon clod-polls and dairy-maids, and never wear a mantua worth looking at " "I doubt my husband will be guided by his own likings rather than by Mrs. Lewin's tastes and opinions," said Angela, with a stately curtsy, which was designed to put the forward tradeswoman in her place, and which took that personage's breath away.
"I did not mean that his gloom was caused by any act of yours, sister. I only urge you to discover why he is so sad." "Sad? Sullen, you mean. He has a fine, generous nature. I am sure it is not Lewin's charges that trouble him. But he had always a sullen temper by fits and starts." "But of late he has been always silent and gloomy." "How the child watches him!
It is a hideous subject; I will pass it by very shortly; only asking of you, as I have to ask daily of myself this solemn question: We, who have so many comforts, so many pleasures of body, soul, and spirit, from the lowest appetite to the highest aspiration, that we can gratify each in turn with due and wholesome moderation, innocently and innocuously who are we that we should judge the poor untaught and overtempted inhabitant of Temple Street and Lewin's Mead, if, having but one or two pleasures possible to him, he snatches greedily, even foully, at the little which he has?
"Prends garde d'abimer mon chapeau, p'tite tante," cried Henriette, "'tis one of Lewin's Nell Gwyn hats, and cost twenty guineas, without the buckle, which I stole out of father's shoe t'other day. His lordship is so careless about his clothes that he wore the shoes two days and never knew there was a buckle missing, and those lazy devils his servants never told him.
"Nay, I believe the country will always please me better than the town. But, sister, do you not hate that Mrs. Lewin that horrid painted face and evil tongue?" "My dearest child, one hates a milliner for the spoiling of a bodice or the ill cut of a sleeve not for her character. I believe Mrs. Lewin's is among the worst, and that she has had as many intrigues as Lady Castlemaine.
Angela asked, suddenly, and the pain in her voice startled her sister from the contemplation of the sublime Mandane. "Unhappy, child! What reason has he to be unhappy?" "Ah, dearest, it is that I would have you discover. 'Tis a wife's business to know what grieves her husband." "Unless it be Mrs. Lewin's bill who is an inexorable harpy I know of no act of mine that can afflict him."
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