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But Mrs Dale would by no means allow herself to share this conviction. She declared to herself that time would cure Lily's wound, and that her child might yet be crowned by the bliss of a happy marriage. She would not in her heart consent to that plan in accordance with which Lily's destiny in life was to be regarded as already fixed.
"For some reason or other she does not seem to like me," George said, with rather a troubled voice; but he directly laughed. "I don't see any reason why she shouldn't like you," Lily said. They had reached Lily's door, and the light from the sitting-room windows shone on her lovely face, past which the snow drifted like a white veil.
Then they sat down on the grass under the hedge, and she told her story, interspersed with Lily's horrified comments. When it was all told, the girl still sat listening. She heard Radbourn's calm, slow voice again. It helped her not to hate Burns; it helped her to pity and understand him: "You must remember that such toil brutalizes a man; it makes him callous, selfish, unfeeling, necessarily.
When Jacky's father with that honest young kiss warm upon his cheek reached the little "two-family" house, he saw the red sign on the door: Scarlet Fever. "He's got it," he thought, fiercely; "but why in hell did she send for me? and a telegram! to the house! She's mad." He was panting with anger as he pressed the button at Lily's door; "I'll tell her I'll never see her again, long as I live!"
Fainting women called for attention among these being Lily's mother. Tavia was now lifted to a seat, and Dorothy had called into her ears that the baby was safe she was not even scratched! But Tavia was not so fortunate, for an ugly red mark showed where the tongue of fire scorched her, and her hair One side was entirely burned off!
She was, in short, rich, helpless, unplaced: the very subject for Lily's hand. Mrs. Fisher had not specified the line her friend was to take; she owned herself unacquainted with Mrs. Hatch, whom she "knew about" through Melville Stancy, a lawyer in his leisure moments, and the Falstaff of a certain section of festive dub life. Socially, Mr.
'No, no, if you once get into Jane's room I shall never see you back again. Now Emily knew that Jane was very ill, and Lily's pale cheeks, heavy eyes, and failing voice, might have reminded her that two sick persons were a heavy charge upon a girl of seventeen, without the addition of her caprices and fretfulness. And how was it that the kind-hearted, affectionate Emily never thought of all this?
His face was stern with this new emotion of anxiety which was gradually becoming pain; he even forgot how scared he had been at the thought that Eleanor might have opened that telegram. "I swear, I wish I hadn't hurt his feelings about that cigar stub!" he said. Then he remembered Eleanor: "I could wring Lily's neck!"
Alethea was a little hurt by her coldness, but she ascribed it to dejection and embarrassment, and blamed herself for hurrying on what she had to tell without sufficient regard for Lily's distress. There was an awkward pause, which Alethea broke, by saying, 'Your brother thought you would like to hear it from me. 'My brother! cried Lily, with a most sudden change of tone. 'William?
He confessed to himself that he had been very wrong in allowing the outer world to get such a hold upon him that the love of a pure girl like Lily could not suffice for his happiness. But there was the fact, and he found himself unable to contend against it. If by any absolute self-sacrifice he could secure Lily's well-being, he would not hesitate for a moment.
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