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Madam Schuyler smoothed an imaginary pucker across the shoulders and again pronounced the work good. “I picked berries and got the cloth,” confessed Marcia. Madam Schuyler smiled benevolently and patted Marcia’s cheek. “You needn’t have done that, child. Why didn’t you come to me for money? You needed something new, and that is a very good purchase, a little light, perhaps, but very pretty.
I certainly have been there,” I said, “but . . .” She caught me up. “Then why not go there again? I am speaking to you frankly because . . .” “But, Madame, I am engaged in this affair with Doña Rita, even if I had any interests elsewhere. I won’t tell you about the importance of my work. I didn’t suspect it but you brought the news of it to me, and so I needn’t point it out to you.”
But you needn’t mind that; I shall never trouble you again by intruding my company upon you so unseasonably.’ He left the room: I heard the hall-door open and shut, and immediately after, on putting aside the curtain, I saw him pacing down the park, in the comfortless gloom of the damp, cloudy twilight.
She had felt the relief of a full confession, and she gave a special meaning to every sentence spoken by Comrade Ossipon, whose knowledge did not in the least resemble her own. “Haven’t you guessed what I was driven to do!” Her voice fell. “You needn’t be long in guessing then what I am afraid of,” she continued, in a bitter and sombre murmur. “I won’t have it. I won’t. I won’t. I won’t.
You don’t know, Helen—you can’t imagine what it is, because you haven’t it before you! and when I’m buried, you’ll return to your old ways and be as happy as ever, and all the world will go on just as busy and merry as if I had never been; while I—” He burst into tears. ‘“You needn’t let that distress you,” I said; “we shall all follow you soon enough.”
‘Mamma needn’t know.’ ‘But she must know some time, if you go on.’ ‘Go on!—there’s no going on in the matter. Mrs. Graham and I are two friends—and will be; and no man breathing shall hinder it,—or has a right to interfere between us.’ ‘But if you knew how they talk you would be more careful, for her sake as well as for your own.
No great favourite with the young men, certainly, who sneer at, and affect to despise him; but everybody knows that’s only envy, and they needn’t give themselves the trouble to depreciate his merits at any rate, for Ma says he shall be asked to every future dinner-party, if it’s only to talk to people between the courses, and distract their attention when there’s any unexpected delay in the kitchen.
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