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I pursued my way along the passage very slowly, I own and I heard the first sentences of the letter which I had written under Lucilla's dictation, read aloud to her in the old nurse's voice.
He advanced towards her; he struggled with himself; he said, "There is a motive for my conduct, Lucilla " and stopped. His breath failed him; he struggled again; he forced out a word or two more: "A motive," he went on, "which I have been afraid to confess " he paused again, with the perspiration pouring over his livid face. Lucilla's patience failed her. "What is your motive?" she asked sharply.
The minutes went on; and the evening waned, till a chill breeze, floating down from the Latian Hills, recalled Lucilla's attention to her father. She covered him tenderly with her own mantle, and whispered gently in his ear her admonition to shun the coldness of the coming night. He did not answer; and on raising her voice a little higher, with the same result, she looked appealingly to Godolphin.
Oscar had given up all idea of seeing him that day, and had come to us at the rectory when the doctor drove into Dimchurch. He was stopped before he went on to Browndown; and he and his patient saw each other alone in Lucilla's sitting-room. They were a long time together. Lucilla, waiting with me in my bed-chamber, grew impatient.
I put a question to him on my side. "Did Lucilla refuse to listen to you?" I asked. "No." "Has she said anything or done anything ?" He lifted his head from his brother's shoulder, and stopped me before I could finish the sentence. "You need feel no anxiety about Lucilla. Lucilla's curiosity is satisfied." Nugent and I gazed at one another, in complete bewilderment.
As it was, the rector had secured his five hundred a year, on terms acceptable to both sides and, more than that, he had got her safe under his own eye. For, remark, there was one terrible possibility threatening him in the future the possibility of Lucilla's marriage! Such was the strange domestic position of this interesting creature, at the time when I entered the house.
He softly crossed to my chair; and, kneeling by me, put my hand entreatingly to his lips. You may consider me a heartless woman if you will. I remained entirely unmoved even by this. Lucilla's interests and my interests, you will observe, were now one. I had resolved, from the first, that she should not be married in ignorance of which was the man who was disfigured by the blue face.
"I want to understand this curious antipathy of Lucilla's which my brother regards with so much alarm. Can you explain it?" "Has Oscar attempted to explain it?" I inquired on my side. But he failed entirely to meet my difficulty in understanding the case." "What is your difficulty?" "This.
Rose longed to say that there was a great gulf between seventy-seven and nineteen and two months. She was stopped by the quiet determination and self-satisfaction visible in Miss Lucilla's face and manner, as she rose and graciously but summarily dismissed the trespasser on her valuable time. "Yes, I hope this will meet the case. You have been overdoing yourself that explains itself to everybody.
It is a great grief to us that her attire compels her to deny herself other company than that of her family. I really believe, sir, that it is Lucilla's deprivations on this island which form at present my principal discontent with my situation. But we all enjoy good health, we have enough to eat, and shelter over us, and should not complain."
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