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Inexperience and presumption, with the help of a brother and sister who have low ends to answer in my disgrace, have been my ruin! A hard word, my dear! but I repeat it upon deliberation: since, let the best happen which now can happen, my reputation is destroyed; a rake is my portion: and what that portion is my cousin Morden's letter has acquainted you. Pray keep it by you till called for.
The men went back to their perilous work, harder by so much to all of them because two were gone. The shadows were deepening in the woods; the roar of the rapids came up from the river like a distant chant of requiem as Aleck finished his story. Except that the drivers sent Morden's wife his month's pay and raised sixty dollars among themselves to put with it, there was nothing more to tell.
What a wretch was I to give him a meeting, since by that I put it out of my power to meet my assembled friends! All would now, if I had met them, been over; and who can tell when my present distresses will? Rid of both men, I had been now perhaps at my aunt Hervey's or at my uncle Antony's; wishing for my cousin Morden's arrival, who might have accommodated all.
Morden's habit of sleeping within closely drawn curtains, from his general informant, James Harwood, the groom, who had received his information from one of the housemaids, in that temple of gossip the servants' hall. Gertrude Eversleigh slept in a white-curtained cot, by the side of Mrs. Morden's bed.
She disappeared in the night from her own cot, while that cot was in its usual place, beside Mrs. Morden's bed." "But who could penetrate into that room in the night, when the castle doors are secured against every one? Where is Mrs. Morden? Let me see her; and let every servant of the house be assembled in the great dining-room."
"Tell you what, sir," he said. "There's a cruiser been up and down a matter of ten miles out. Me and my mates will put out at daybreak and see if we can get within hail of her. There's the light-ship, too, off Morden's Shoal. 'Tain't likely as a boat could have slipped between 'em without being seen. For if she was just drifting, you know, sir, she wouldn't go very fast." "All right," said Seton.
He repeats his own resolution to attend my pleasure, and Mr. Morden's arrival and advice, for the reward of his own patience. 'It is impossible, he says, but one of these methods must do. Presence, he observes, even of a disliked person, takes off the edge of resentments which absence whets, and makes keen.
I re-urged her to make me happy, but I was to be postponed to her cousin Morden's arrival. On him are now placed all her hopes. I raved; but to no purpose. Another letter was to be sent, or had been sent, to her aunt Hervey, to which she hoped an answer.
Why, the wife of a libertine: and what a libertine and his wife are my cousin Morden's letter tells us. Let me here, once for all, endeavour to account for the motives of behavior to this man, and for the principles I have proceeded upon, as they appear to me upon a close self-examination.
This, in short, was the case: while she was refusing all manner of obligation to me, keeping me at haughty distance, in hopes that her cousin Morden's arrival would soon fix her in a full and absolute independence of me disgusted, likewise, at her adorer, for holding himself the reins of his own passions, instead of giving them up to her controul she writes a letter, urging an answer to a letter before sent, for her apparel, her jewels, and some gold, which she had left behind her; all which was to save her pride from obligation, and to promote the independence her heart was set upon.
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