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Now her youth seemed to drink eagerly a cup of obedience as though it were the wine of life itself. She even longed to obey the voice whispering in her soul from ever so far away: "Close close to him! Home is in his arms." With all her unconscious revelation of herself, however, there was that in her which was pure maidenliness.
He was thinking much of Annabel; he could not imagine her other than calm, intellectual; he could not hear her voice uttering passionate words. A great change must come over her before her reserved maidenliness could soften to such sweet humility. And he had no faith in his power so to change her. The next day was Thursday. This and Sunday were his lecture days; his class met at half-past eight.
It was that she should have seen something which she should not have seen, for her innocence's sake something which, in a sense, must have offended and wounded her maidenliness. He would have struck any man who could have laughed at his sensitiveness about that.
"If some one loved me!" Before hearing of Constantia, she had mused upon liberty as a virgin Goddess men were out of her thoughts; even the figure of a rescuer, if one dawned in her mind, was more angel than hero. That fair childish maidenliness had ceased.
Far corrupted the boy was already, but he really believed in that farrago of maidenliness and muslin, in sweet looks as much studied as an Act of Parliament. And if the one man, who is in duty bound to believe in feminine fibs, is deceived by them, is not that enough? For a pair of lovers, the rest of their species are about as much alive as figures on the tapestry.
Two hours passed ere she could again show herself to her father, from whom she seemed in some new way divided by the new feeling in which he did not, and could not share. But at last, lest he should seek her, and finding her, should suspect her thoughts, she descended and sought him. For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.
'He looks like a gentleman, said the girl, 'and he wanted not to see master, but Miss Arnold most particular. More hopes for Charlotte. She had nearly made one bound downstairs, but waited to lay awful commands on the girl not to leave the children on no account; then flew down, pausing at the foot of the stairs to draw herself up, and remember dignity and maidenliness. Alas for her hopes!
It took a great moral effort to galvanise his trust erewhile so perfect in Margaret's pure and exquisite maidenliness, into life; as soon as the effort ceased, his trust dropped down dead and powerless: and all sorts of wild fancies chased each other like dreams through his mind. Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation. 'She bore up better than likely' under this grief.
You do all this for flowers which a thousand suns shall duplicate in beauty, and for jewels for which a handful of dollars can reimburse your loss; but you are infinitely careless with the delicate rose of maidenliness, which, once faded, no summer shining can ever woo back to freshness, and with the unsullied jewel of personal reputation which all the wealth of kings can never buy back again, once lost.
Her hair was lighter in tint, her eyes, too, were considerably lighter granted that they were clear as crystal. It was difficult to think of Dora as preferred before Annie, if one did not take into account that there are people who will turn away from June roses to gather a cluster of honeysuckle, or pick a sweet pea people to whom there is an ineffable charm in simple maidenliness and sweetness.
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