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Medwin was exceedingly embarrassed and annoyed there was something in the girl's quiet demeanour that suggested a certain intellectual superiority to himself. He hummed and hawed, lurking various unpleasant throaty noises.
He asserted to Medwin that a lady, young, married, and of noble connections, had become infatuated with him, and declared her love of him on the eve of his departure for the Continent in 1816; that he had gently but firmly repulsed her; that she arrived in Naples on the day he did, and had soon afterwards died.
"You may say what you like." "I only mean that anything awkward you may have to keep out of the way does seem to make more wonderful, doesn't it, that you should have got just where you are? I allude, you know, to your position." "I see." Miss Cutter somewhat coldly smiled. "To my power." "So awfully remarkable in an American." "Ah you like us so." Mrs. Medwin candidly considered.
Not long after his arrival, Medwin suffered from a severe and tedious illness. "Shelley tended me like a brother. He applied my leeches, administered my medicines, and during six weeks that I was confined to my room, was assiduous and unintermitting in his affectionate care of me." The poet's solitude and melancholy at this time impressed his cousin very painfully.
Ask her, if you'd be so truly sweet, for a Sunday; or something of that sort, and even if only in one of your MOST mixed parties, to Catchmore." Miss Cutter felt the less hopeful after this effort in that her companion only showed a strange good nature. And it wasn't a satiric amiability, though it WAS amusement. "Take Mrs. Medwin into my family?" "Some day when you're taking forty others."
It was not till the fourth day that she waited upon her, finding her, as she had expected, tense. "Lady Wantridge WILL ?" "Yes, though she says she won't." "She says she won't? O-oh!" Mrs. Medwin moaned. "Sit tight all the same. I HAVE her!" "But how?" "Through Scott whom she wants." "Your bad brother!" Mrs. Medwin stared. "What does she want of him?" "To amuse them at Catchmore.
Conversation of a rather artificial kind went on for half an hour, then Miss Medwin jumped up and said she must go. Bertha protested, but her friend alleged the necessity of making another call, and took leave. Warburton stood with a hand upon his chair. Bertha, turning back from the door, passed by him, and resumed her seat. "A very clever girl," she said, with a glance at the window.
Shelley proposed that the English himself, Byron, Medwin, and their friend Mr. Taafe should immediately arm and ride off to rescue him. The scheme took Byron's fancy; but they agreed to try less Quixotic measures before they had recourse to force, and their excitement was calmed by hearing that the man's sentence had been commuted to the galleys.
Medwin," she threw in, "can't get over it." Then, as her friend looked vague: "Over my social situation." "Well, it's no great flattery to you to say," Lady Wantridge good- humouredly returned, "that she certainly can't hope for one resembling it." Yet it really seemed to spread there before them. "You simply MADE Mrs. Short Stokes." "In spite of her name!" Mamie smiled.
"I think perhaps I ought to tell you," she continued "because then you will be able to judge him better and spare his memory from foolish and wicked scandal. He was not my father I was only his adopted daughter." Mr. Medwin gave a slight cough a cough of incredulity. "Adopted" is a phrase often used to cover the brand of illegitimacy.
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