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And, on the whole, there could not be much danger in this correspondence. The Moxeys, who alone of his friends had ever been connected with Twybridge, were now absolutely without interests in that quarter. From them he had stolen away, only acquainting Christian at the last moment, in a short letter, with his departure from London.
He tasted something of the tranquil self-content which makes life so enjoyable when one has never seen a necessity for shaping original remarks. No one in this room would despise him for a platitude, were it but recommended with a pleasant smile. With the Moxeys, with Earwaker, he durst not thus have spoken.
But Marcella had no charm for Godwin's imagination, notwithstanding that he presently suspected a warmth of interest on her side which he was far from consciously encouraging. Nor did he find among his friends any man or woman for whose acquaintance he greatly cared. The Moxeys had a very small circle, consisting chiefly of intellectual inferiors.
It was now all but certain that a strong intellectual sympathy united their minds and perhaps there had been something more. She turned her face upon the pillow and moaned. And from the Moxeys Buckland had derived his information. What was it he said something about 'an odd look' on Miss Moxey's face when that friend of theirs talked of Peak?
That sort of thing isn't in my way; I haven't the energy more's the pity. Would you like to see a lot of good photographs I brought back? I have them here; brought them to show the girls. In spite of the five Miss Moxeys and Christian's sister, Peak accepted the invitation to walk back with his companion, and presently they began to stroll towards Twybridge.
'But surely there is no reason for keeping it secret. Why may I not speak freely? Buckland told me that he had heard you spoken of at the house of people named Moxey. She endeavoured to understand the smile which rose to his lips. 'Now it is clear to me, he said. 'Yes, I suppose that was inevitable, sooner or later. 'You knew that he had become acquainted with the Moxeys?
Moxey, in a tone of genial invitation. 'I daresay you had dinner long enough ago to have picked up a new appetite. Godwin had a perturbing vision of the five Miss Moxeys and of a dinner table, such as he was not used to sit at; he wished to decline, yet knew not how to do so with civility. 'Yes, yes; come along! added his friend, heartily. 'Tell us something about your chemistry paper.
He was resolved to let her taste all the bitterness of her folly. 'It seems pretty clear that the Moxeys at all events Miss Moxey knew the rascally part he was playing. Whether they wished to unmask him, or not, I can't say. Perhaps not. Yet I caught an odd look on Miss Moxey's face when that man Malkin began to talk of Peak's characteristics and achievements.
The consciousness that he had sought these people not at all for their own sake made him formal and dry; his glances, his half-smile, indicated a doubt whether the Moxeys belonged entirely to the sphere in which he was at home.
Remembering every detail of Buckland's story, Sidwell felt that she had possibly been unjust in representing the Moxeys as her brother's authority; in strictness, she ought to mention that a friend of theirs was the actual source of information. But she could not pursue the subject; like Godwin, she wished to put it out of her mind.
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