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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Have patience with me," he said, "a little longer; the blow is so sudden, so terrible, I cannot yet realize what the world is without Madaline." A few hours passed, and the self-control he had struggled for was his. He sent for Dr. Letsom. "I have been thinking over what is best," he said, "and have decided on all my plans. Have you leisure to discuss them with me?"
She seemed to have every comfort, every luxury; but Margaret noticed also that she never spoke of her circle of society that she never alluded to visitors. "It seems to me, my darling, that you lead a very quiet life," she said, one day; and Madaline's only answer was that such was really the case. Another time Margaret said to her: "You do not write many letters to your husband, Madaline.
"Knowing you well, Norman, the accomplishment of my scheme was not difficult. If I had brought Madaline to you and introduced her, you might not have been charmed; the air of mystery about her attracted you. My warning against your caring for her would, I knew, also help to allure you. I was right in every way.
'She was no one of importance; she had neither money, rank, nor aught else." He looked at the bent face near him. "Nay, my darling, not so. That Lord Arleigh will be able to answer: 'She was the flower of the race; she was famed for her pure, gentle life, and the good example she gave to all around her; she was beloved by rich and poor. That is what will be said of you, my Madaline."
Do you mean to tell me, doctor, that she who only yesterday sat smiling by my side, life of my life, soul of my soul, dearer to me than all the world, has gone from me, and that I shall see her no more? I cannot, I will not believe it! I shall hear her crying for me directly, or she will come smiling into the room. Oh, Madaline, my wife, my wife!"
She took back with her innumerable messages for the duchess. As she stood at the carriage-door, she so little given to demonstration took the young wife into her arms. "Good-by, Madaline or I should say now, Lady Arleigh good-by, and may Heaven bless you!
How was she to bring forward the subject nearest to her heart? She cast about for words in which to express her thoughts. "Madaline," she said, at last, "no one has a greater respect than I have for the honor of husband and wife; I mean for the good faith and confidence there should be between them.
"If you can't, you can't," philosophized Madaline. "That's exactly it," amplified Grace. "I can't, so I can't. Thank you, Winnie and Norma, for the lovely invitation, and please let me put it down to my credit account? I would like a refund," and she laughed her irresistible explosive outburst, in which the whole party joined, whether willingly or from acute inflection.
"But you will understand clearly that to you I told a lie when I said that Madaline's mother was a poor relative of the duke's you know now what relationship there is between them. Even Lady Peters does not know the truth. She fancies that Madaline is the daughter of some friend of mine who, having fallen on evil days, has been glad to send her to me.
I am going abroad, but I leave Dr. Letsom as the guardian of the child; apply to him for everything you want, as you will not be able to communicate with me." He watched her as she took the child in her arms. He was satisfied when he saw the light that came into her face: he knew that little Madaline would be well cared for. He placed a bank note for fifty pounds in the woman's hands.
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