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That opened Lilias's eyes with a flash of anger, but Kitty had the courage of her opinions, and said stolidly "I never considered from the beginning that he was really in love. I've seen lots of engaged people, and he wasn't a bit like them.
It was growing dark in the room in which, for a few minutes, she waited for Dr Gordon, and through the half-open door she caught a glimpse of a pleasant parlour, echoing with the music of voices. Happy, cheerful voices they were; but Lilias's heart grew sadder as she listened, and when at last Dr Gordon appeared, it was with difficulty that she could restrain her tears.
The points of view from which Ned and herself regarded his position seemed to grow more hopelessly far apart the more it was discussed, and the consciousness that he was disappointed by her lack of sympathy did not tend to raise Lilias's spirits.
So, turning his back upon the fiddles and tambourine, Gipsy Devereux sauntered down to the river-bank, and to the osiers, where the ladies are looking down the river, and a blue bell, not half so blue as her own deep eyes, in Lilias's fingers; and the sound of their gay talk came mixed with the twitter and clear evening songs of the small birds.
If I am not to have my Lilias's sweet companionship again, I will remain here, in this Hole, and die like a Dog, as I am." "Take comfort, my son," said the Redemptorist Monk. "Time and Perseverance may, I repeat, enable you to attain your heart's desire. Meanwhile, console yourself with the assurance that the Fair and Good Woman, who is your Wife, is out of peril from lawless men.
"I will not go with Lilias, madam," answered the spoiled child, who had more than once carried his point by perseverance, and who, like his betters, delighted in the exercise of such authority, "I will not go to Lilias's gousty room I will stay and see that brave warrior who comes riding so gallantly along the drawbridge."
If any one had foretold that he should feel time drag heavily in Lilias's company, and cast about in his mind for subjects on which to talk, how he would have derided the idea! yet, alas, it had come true, for he felt a distinct sense of gratitude towards Nan when she thrust her head out of a bedroom window and summoned Lilias to her assistance.
Not that I was so comely in my young days; but my Grandmother before me was of the same fair Image that I so delight to look upon in Lilias. She was tall, and white, and brown-haired, and blue-eyed. She had Lilias's small and daintily-fashioned hands and feet, or rather Lilias has hers. To me these features were only transmitted in a meaner degree.
John thought maybe at old Miss Chattesworth's school; or, Sally said, maybe at Belmont; they did not know. Devereux looked into the large room at the right hand of the hall, with the fair sad portrait of Lilias's young mother smiling, from the wall.
She flew up to her friends with outstretched hands, and hid her face in Lilias's lap. 'Oh, cousins, cousins! tak' me away out of his reach. He has been the death of poor Meg, now he wants to be mine. They could not understand her at first, and indeed shame as well as dismay made her incoherent for what had been proposed to her was at that time unprecedented.
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