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Themison's account of the virtuous married lady who chafed at the yoke on behalf of her sex, and deemed the independent union the ideal. Nataly's brain had a short gallop over moorland. It brought her face to face with Victor's girl, and she dropped once more to her remorse in herself and her reproaches of Nesta.
Then I stay with her. But can't she come? He is going to unfold ideas to us. There! 'My naughty girl is not to poke her fun at orators, Nataly said. 'No, dearest; it would agitate me to go. I'm better here. I shall be at peace when the night is over. 'But you will be all alone here, dear mother. Nataly's eyes wandered to fall on Colney. He proposed to give her his company. She declined it.
Nataly's bosom sank. 'Ah me! here's misery! I ought to have known. And too late now it has gone so far! But I never imagined he would be building. She caught herself languishing at her toilette-glass, as, if her beauty were at stake; and shut her eyelids angrily. To be looking in that manner, for a mere suspicion, was too foolish. But Nesta's divinations were target-arrows; they flew to the mark.
It seemed a cruel mystery. How was it permitted by the Merciful Disposer! .... Nataly's intellect and her reverence clashed.
One blow and we have silenced our enemy: Nesta's wedding-day has relieved her parents. Victor's thoughts upon the instrument for striking that, blow, led him to suppose Mr. Sowerby might be meditating on the extent of the young lady's fortune. He talked randomly of money, in a way to shatter Nataly's conception of him.
Whether to speak to her girl at once, despite the now vehement contrary counsel of Victor, was Nataly's deliberation, under the thought of the young creature's perplexity in not seeing her at the house of the Duvidney ladies: while Nesta conjured in a flash the past impressions of her mother's shrinking distaste from any such hectic themes as this which burdened and absorbed her; and she was almost joining to it, through sympathy with any thought or feeling of one in whom she had such pride; she had the shudder of revulsion.
There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Member, was known, and was likely to have a good reception. Fun and enthusiasm might be expected. 'And my darling will hear her husband speak to-night, he whispered as he was departing; and did a mischief, he had to fear, for a shadowy knot crossed Nataly's forehead, she seemed paler.
She was to do her part: Fenellan and Colney on the surface, she below: and hospitality was to do its part, and music was impressed the innocent Concerts; his wealth, all his inventiveness were to serve; and merely to attract and win the tastes of people, for a social support to Lakelands! Merely that? Much more: if Nataly's coldness to the place would but allow him to form an estimate of how much.
This burning Nesta, Victor's daughter, tempered by Nataly's milder blood, was a girl in whom the hard shocks of the knowledge of life, perforce of the hardness upon pure metal, left a strengthening for generous imagination. She did not sit to brood on her injured senses or set them through speculation touching heat; they were taken up and consumed by the fire of her mind.
They were alone with Mrs. Burman. No voice came. They were unsure of being seen by the floating grey of eyes patient to gaze from their vast distance. Big drops fell from Nataly's. Victor heard the French timepiece on the mantel-shelf, where a familiar gilt Cupid swung for the seconds: his own purchase. The time of day on the clock was wrong; the Cupid swung.
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