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"If I only knew how Madge felt towards me," he said many times to himself, "then I could speak; but I have been such a brute. She can do nothing else but repulse me;" and this threw around him that chill reserve which kept Margaret's generous and forgiving heart at a distance.
He craved a scourging that he might not be cursing himself; and he provoked it, for Gower was very sensitive to a cold breath on the weakness he had laid bare; and when Fleetwood said: 'You recommend a bath in the feelings of Madge Winch? the retort came: 'It might stop you on the road to a cowl. Fleetwood put on the mask of cogitation to cover a shudder, 'How?
Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied, "No. And I promise not to bother you about my private affairs any more." Madge laughed again merrily, saying, "You are the most obvious man I ever met. Now why did you say that?"
I did not learn why Uncle George wished to confine you in the dungeon. I am so sorry that this trouble has come upon you." "Trouble, Madge?" returned Dorothy. "Truly, you do not understand. No trouble has come upon me. The greatest happiness of my life has come to pass. Don't pity me. Envy me. My happiness is so sweet and so great that it frightens me."
Well, in some way, you, true, brave little girl, you must have reached me, and, finding that you could not restore me, and imagining I was dead or dying, you fainted yourself from the nervous shock of it all. When I recovered the use of my senses I found evidence that you had been trying to revive me. Now, Madge, we must both be brave and sensible.
"No, no, Joe; it can never be," she said. He knew! "And why?" said he, his face blackening with bitter feeling, his brows contracting fiercely. "Because that furriner from the blue grass has come atween us!" Madge, surprised that he should guess the secret which she had scarcely admitted, even to herself, was, for a second, frightened by his keenness. Had she shown her feelings with such freedom?
"I will not marry him," Mollie answered simply. "Nothing could make me do so." "Then you will come home to the houseboat with us, Mollie," Madge and Phil pleaded together, taking hold of the girl's hands to lead her away. "I am sorry," interposed Judge Hilliard, speaking to the girls, "but we can't take her away at once. We must observe the law.
Madge now looked at the woman, busily engaged with her few pots and pans, and a feeling of envy came to her, a longing for the sweet and kindly motherhood that was becoming a fierce craving for that beautiful peace which appeared to have become so firmly established in these little houses of the frozen wilds.
"You will find yourself expensive to dress," she told her, "cheap things won't go well on you; and it would be madness, even from a business point of view, for you not to make the best of yourself." "Men stand more in awe of a well-dressed woman than they do even of a beautiful woman," Madge was of opinion. "If you go into an office looking dowdy they'll beat you down.
You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers, as you saunter along the street; and say but not so loud as to be overheard "She is mine she is mine!" You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly one-half as well as you love Madge? You feel quite sure he never did.
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