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But what, then, was he to do? There was no chance of her getting free. In her husband's view, it seemed, under no circumstances was marriage dissoluble. Nor, indeed, to Miltoun would divorce have made things easier, believing as he did that he and she were guilty, and that for the guilty there could be no marriage.
You don't wish to injure him, I'm sure." Mrs. Noel shook her head, and Lady Casterley went on: "I don't know what they're not saying since the evening your friend Mr. Courtier hurt his knee. Miltoun has been most unwise. You had not perhaps realized that." Mrs. Noel's answer was bitterly distinct: "I didn't know anyone was sufficiently interested in my doings."
That sanguine visage, with its prominent chin, flaring moustaches, and eyebrows raised rather V-shaped above his closed eyes, wore an expression of cheery defiance even in sleep; and perhaps no face in all London was so utterly its obverse, as that of this dark, soft-haired woman, delicate, passive, and tremulous with pleasure at sight of the only person in the world from whom she felt she might learn of Miltoun, without losing her self-respect.
He knew that fellow, a half-pounder at least, and his thoughts began flighting round the top of his head, hovering over the various merits of the flies. His fingers itched too, but he made no movement, and the ash-tree under which he sat let its leaves tremble, as though in sympathy. "See that hawk?" said Miltoun.
The notion of explaining what he had come about was particularly hateful to Miltoun; but since he had given his word, he nerved himself with secret anger, and began: "I promised my mother to ask you a question, Uncle Dennis. You know of my attachment, I believe?" Lord Dennis nodded. "Well, I have joined my life to this lady's.
She pulled it towards her, and passed through. Across the centre of an unkempt bedroom Miltoun was striding, dressed only in his shirt and trousers. His feet were bare, and his head and hair dripping wet; the look on his thin dark face went to Barbara's heart. She ran forward, and took his hand. This was burning hot, but the sight of her seemed to have frozen his tongue and eyes.
There wasn't so much movement in More as there had been a little time back. Miltoun opened the tome, and a small book-louse who had been sleeping on the word 'Tranibore, began to make its way slowly towards the very centre of the volume. "I see it's genuine," said Miltoun. "It's not to read, my lord," the little man warned him: "Hardly safe to turn the pages.
Barbara, too, was pale. So close to her that he could count her every eyelash, and inhale the scent of her hair and clothes to listen to her story of Miltoun, so hesitatingly, so wistfully told, seemed very like being kept waiting with the rope already round his neck, to hear about another person's toothache. He felt this to have been unnecessary on the part of Fate!
At last, touching his sleeve, she said: "You're wet!" Miltoun shivered at that timid sign of possession. And they again stood in silence broken only by the sound of the cat licking its paws. But her faculty for dumbness was stronger than his, and he had to speak first. "Forgive me for coming; something must be settled. This rumour " "Oh! that!" she said.
On leaving Nettlefold, Miltoun had gone straight back to his rooms, and begun at once to work at his book on the land question. He worked all through that night his third night without sleep, and all the following day. In the evening, feeling queer in the head, he went out and walked up and down the Embankment. Then, fearing to go to bed and lie sleepless, he sat down in his arm-chair.
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