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"All I know is that he loves me that I honour him that he would take me" "out of this misery," she was about to say, but stopped, feeling that both the thought and the expression were unworthy Nathanael's future wife, and unfit to be heard by Nathanael's brother.
There she remained, waiting for a lull in the dispute in which, however, she never caught one tone of Nathanael's. At last, feeling rather humiliated at being thus obliged to flutter up and down the stairs of her own abode, and crave admittance into her own drawing-room, Mrs. Harper ventured to knock softly, and enter.
Good fortune had in the meantime visited the house; a niggardly old uncle, from whom they had never expected to get anything, had died, and left Nathanael's mother not only a considerable fortune, but also a small estate, pleasantly situated not far from the town. There they resolved to go and live, Nathanael and his mother, and Clara, to whom he was now to be married, and Lothair.
There was nothing that Clara disliked so much as what was tedious; at such times her intellectual sleepiness was not to be overcome; it was betrayed both in her glances and in her words. Nathanael's effusions were, in truth, exceedingly tedious.
Nathanael's eyes were on his wife again, full of ineffable gentleness. "Agatha, come over and rest in this armchair. I want to talk to you about my father." She obeyed. He spoke in a low voice: "I feel deeply your having been so kind to him." "It was right. I was glad to do it." "What do you think caused his illness?" "Doctor Mason said it was probably some severe mental shock."
"You evidently did not think I was my real self, or you would not have been going to pass me by; I that is, we" -at the word Nathanael's wife cast off her shyness, and grew bravely dignified "we came back to London two days ago." "Indeed!"
Give me a little time. Don't disgrace me before her before them all." Nathanael's stature rose. Without again speaking, he shook his brother's hand from off his shoulder with a gesture, slight yet full of meaning, and turned towards Agatha. He seemed to yearn over her, though he checked every expression of feeling except the softness of his voice.
She thought Nathanael's quick eyes darted from her to Mrs. lanson and back again, as if to judge whether, young-lady-like, she had told his secret to all her female friends. But there was something in Agatha's countenance which marked her out as that rare character, a woman who can hold her tongue even in a love affair. After a minute she looked at Mr.
Yes, it must be true. This, then, was Nathanael's secret. Why had he kept it from her. "As if he thought I cared for money! As if" and a choking filled her throat "as if I would have minded being ever so poor did he only love me!" The thought burst out naturally, like water forcing its way through muddy reeds showing how, deep down, there lay the living spring. "Now, let me consider.
It was easy to see that this good heart opened itself at once to Nathanael's young betrothed. "That is what I had in my own mind, and should have spoken of to his nephew here a party of search which the Canadian Government, if urged, would no doubt consent to. Nathanael could propose it plan it. He is both ingenious and wise." "Ah, he is; he seems to know everything!" cried Agatha warmly.
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