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Updated: June 13, 2025
One evening late in the spring, after dinner, Maude came into the library. "Are you busy, Hugh?" she asked. I put down my newspapers. "Because," she went on, as she took a chair near the table where I was writing, "I wanted to tell you that I have decided to go to Europe, and take the children." "To Europe!" I exclaimed.
"You've pulled it off this time, mother, and no mistake," said Maude, glancing somewhat furtively up at the Sargent. "Do look at that perfectly lovely dress she has on in that picture. Did you ever see such pearls; and the eyes seem to follow you, don't they?" "The poor, distracted thing just clings to us," said Mrs. Slifer. "I shouldn't wonder if she was as lonely as could be."
At the name of the poet their three consciences pricked simultaneously. They looked at each other and then at the clock with dismay. 'We must we really MUST go on with our reading, cried Mrs. Hunt Mortimer. 'How did we get talking about these dresses? 'It was my fault, said Mrs. Beecher, looking contrite. 'No, dear, it was mine, said Maude.
The name dropped involuntarily from the lips of Maude, standing without the door. But he did not hear it, and she could not say it again; for he was not her father; but her heart was moved with sympathy, and going to him laid her hands on his head and looked into his face. "Maude Matty's Maude my Maude!"
'On the contrary, burst in Kilgobbin, 'I am delighted with this proof of the captain's acuteness; tell us something more, Curtis. 'There was then, "From the upper castle yard, Maude," whoever Maude is, "says, 'Deny it all, and say you never were there, not so easy as she thinks, with a broken right arm, and a heart not quite so whole as it ought to be."
I've just asked him now; and he's says there's nothing the matter with it." "I wish there were!" said Maude. "You wish there were! That's a pretty wish for a reasonable Christian," cried the tart dowager. "You want your husband to lecture you; saying such things." "I wish he were hanged!" cried Maude, showing her glistening teeth. "My gracious!" exclaimed the wondering old lady, after a pause.
Imbued with the highest ambition of my time, I had set my barque on a great circle, and almost before I realized it the barque was burdened with a wife and family and the steering had insensibly become more difficult; for Maude cared nothing about the destination, and when I took any hand off the wheel our ship showed a tendency to make for a quiet harbour.
'Spare Maude; do not let her die! was his prayer, and that of many others during the week which followed, when Maude's life hung on a thread, and every bell at the park house was muffled, and the servants spoke only in whispers; while Frank Tracy sat day and night in the room where his daughter lay, perfectly quiet, except as she sometimes put up her hand to stroke his white hair or wipe away the tears constantly rolling down his cheeks.
'Yes, I will do it for Maude, she said again; but there was a troubled look on her face, and a feeling in her heart as if, in some way, she was false to Arthur in thus consenting to his brother's wishes. But, she reflected, Arthur was crazy, so people said, and she herself knew better than anyone else of his many fanciful vagaries, which, at times, took the form of actual insanity.
J.C. was well skilled in the little, delicate acts which tend to win and keep a woman's heart, and in listening to his protestations of love Maude forgot all else, and abandoned herself to the belief that she was perfectly happy.
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