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Updated: May 19, 2025
It was the bitterest moment of Catherine Leyburn's life. In it the heroic dream of years broke down. Nay, the shrivelling ironic touch of circumstance laid upon it made it look even in her own eyes almost ridiculous. What had she been living for, praying for, all these years? She threw herself down by the widow's side, her face working with a passion that terrified Mrs. Leyburn.
Leyburn, who was strolling about the garden. She at once informed him, with much languid plaintiveness, that Catherine had gone to Whinborough for the day, and would not be able to join the picnic. Elsmere stood still. 'Gone! he cried. 'But it was all arranged with her yesterday! Mrs. Leyburn shrugged her shoulders. She too was evidently much put out. 'So I told her. But you know, Mr.
That good woman would open the door once and again in the morning, and put her head through in search of prey; but on being confronted with two studious men instead of one, each buried up to the ears in folios, she would give vent to an irritable cough and retire discomfited. In reality Elsmere was thinking of nothing in the world but what Catherine Leyburn might be doing that morning.
Leyburn let herself be gradually soothed and coerced, and Catherine, with a last kiss to the delicate emaciated fingers on which the worn wedding ring lay slipping forward in itself a history left her at last to sleep. 'And I don't know much more than when I began! sighed the perplexed widow to herself, 'Oh, I wish Richard was here I do! Catherine's night was a night of intense mental struggle.
'I know she has, he said simply. 'She shall be everything in the world to you still. I have had hard work to persuade her. There will be no chance for me if you don't help me. Another breathless pause, Then Mrs. Leyburn timidly drew him to her, and he stooped his tall head and kissed her like a son. 'Oh, I must go to Catherine! she said hurrying away, her pretty withered cheeks wet with tears.
'Say rather that it means a preference for the people that are not new! There is such a thing as concentrating one's attention. I came to hear you play, Miss Leyburn! 'Well? She glanced at him from under her long lashes, one hand playing with the rings on the other.
Miss Leyburn thinks your mother-in-law not very well to-day, and doesn't like to come. And your younger sister prefers also to stay in town. Helen is much disappointed, so am I. But And he shrugged his shoulders. Robert found it difficult to make a suitable remark. His sisters-in-law were certainly inscrutable young women. This Easter party at Greenlaws, Mr.
If you are going past the Vicarage, Miss Leyburn, may I escort you so far? She stood quietly waiting while he made his farewells. Agnes, whose eye fell on her sister during the pause, was struck with a passing sense of something out of the common. She could hardly have defined her impression, but Catherine seemed more alive to the outer world, more like other people, less nun-like, than usual.
And of this tradition, with its implied assertions and denials, clearly Catherine Leyburn, the elder sister, was, of all the persons gathered in this little room, the most pronounced embodiment. She sat at the head of the table, the little basket of her own and her mother's keys beside her.
'Oh, mother, say you would miss me say you would miss me if I went! Then Mrs. Leyburn herself broke down, and the two women clung to each other, weeping. Catherine's sore heart was soothed a little by her mother's tears, and by the broken words of endearment that were lavished on her. But through it all she felt that the excited imaginative desire in Mrs. Leyburn still persisted.
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