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Updated: May 15, 2025
Manston was burnt, Cytherea, whom you love better than me, could have been compelled to live with you as your lawful wife. If she was not burnt, why should you run the risk of her turning up again at any moment and exposing your substitution of me, and ruining your name and prospects? 'No you would have run the risk the other way.
But I did not speak to her she stood back, as if she were shy. I was interested, however, for old Mr. Brown had told me all about her when he came back from the inquest. 'Did you know Mrs. Manston before she called the other day? 'No. You see she was only Mr.
Manston to influence her as he had done that evening. What right on earth had he to suggest so suddenly that she might meet him at the waterfall to receive his music? She would have given much to be able to annihilate the ascendency he had obtained over her during that extraordinary interval of melodious sound.
The latter was Cytherea's case now. First, an agony of face told of the suppressed misery within her, which presently could be suppressed no longer. When they were coming out of the porch, there broke from her in a low plaintive scream the words, 'He's dying dying! O God, save us! She began to sink down, and would have fallen had not Manston caught her.
Round this table she flew, keeping it between herself and Manston, her large eyes wide open with terror, their dilated pupils constantly fixed upon Manston's, to read by his expression whether his next intention was to dart to the right or the left. Even he, at that heated moment, could not endure the expression of unutterable agony which shone from that extraordinary gaze of hers.
'Yes. 'Somebody ha' come to Carriford: and the rest of it may concern you, sir. 'Well, well. 'Did you expect Mrs. Manston to-night, sir? 'Yes, unfortunately she's come, I know, and asleep long before this time, I suppose. The labourer leant his elbow upon the shaft of the gig and turned his face, pale and sweating from his late work at the fire, up to Manston's.
We know the duplicated condition at such times when the existence divides itself into two, and the ostensibly innocent chatterer stands in front, like another person, to hide the timorous spy. Manston played the same game, but more palpably. The meal was nearly over when he seemed possessed of a new idea of how his object might be accomplished.
'I have done it, said Manston. 'If ever a man on the face of this earth has done his duty towards an absent wife, I have towards her living or dead at least, he added, correcting himself, 'since I have lived at Knapwater. I neglected her before that time I own that, as I have owned it before.
Manston! I tried to fetch her out, but I fell. An exclamation of horror burst from the crowd; it was caused partly by this disclosure of Springrove, more by the added perception which followed his words.
Reasoning worldliness, especially when allied with sensuousness, cannot repress on some extreme occasions the human instinct to pour out the soul to some Being or Personality, who in frigid moments is dismissed with the title of Chance, or at most Law. Manston was selfishly and inhumanly, but honestly and unutterably, thankful for the recent catastrophe.
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