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Updated: June 10, 2025
If Nataly with her sleepless watchfulness and forecasts partook of the French mother, Nesta's Arcadian independence likened her somewhat in manner to the Transatlantic version of the English girl.
And it was Nesta's eyes which first gave way beaten by the certainty in Pratt's. She looked aside; her cheeks flamed; she felt as if something were rising in her throat to choke her. "I can't believe that!" she muttered. "You're mistaken! Oh utterly mistaken!" "No mistake!" said Pratt confidently. "I tell you your mother meant me me! to meet my death at that bridge.
As day-girls they had nothing to do with the hostel, and could only go there by special invitation. When afternoon school was over they asked some of the boarders the meaning of the missive. Nobody would explain. "You'll find out when you get there," was Nesta's cryptic reply.
Nataly drank the poison distilled from her exclamations and was ice. She had denied herself to Nesta's redoubled petition. Nesta knocking at the door a third time and calling, tore the mother two ways: to have her girl on her breast or snap their union in a word with an edge. She heard the voice of Dartrey Fenellan. He was admitted.
Clair stood still, and his eyes never moved from Nesta's face. 'Do we meet as strangers? he asked. 'No, she said, a little unsteadily, and her lips quivered in spite of herself, as she strove in vain to meet his gaze calmly; 'as old friends, I hope. 'Never! he said, a passionate light coming to his eyes; 'it must be everything or nothing to me, as I told you long ago.
Nataly eyes revealed a similar gulf. Let it be cast on Society, then! A Society opposing Nature forces us to these murderous looks upon impediments. But what of a Society in the dance with Nature? Victor did not approve of that. He began, under the influence of Nesta's companionship, to see the Goddess Nature there is in a chastened nature. And this view shook the curtain covering his lost Idea.
The clergyman's wife and grown-up daughter and a few grandly dressed farmers' wives were the only others who occupied seats of their own. The organ was played by the schoolmaster, and after Nesta's playing it did not seem the same instrument.
Victor turned his full front to Dorothea and Virginia, one sunny beam of delight and although it was Mr. Stuart Rem who was naughty Nesta's victim, and although it seemed a trespass on her part to speak in such a manner of a clerical gentleman, they were seized; they were the opposite partners of a laughing quadrille, lasting till they were tired out.
But no sooner was she alone than her torturing perplexities and her abasement of the hours previous to Victor's coming returned. For a girl of Nesta's head could not be deceived; she had come home with a woman's intelligence of the world, hard knowledge of it a knowledge drawn from foul wells, the unhappy mother imagined: she dreaded to probe to the depth of it.
The clerical gentleman's voice was of a depth to claim for it the profoundest which can be thought or uttered; and Nesta's tender youth had taken so strong an impression of sacredness from what Fenellan called 'his chafer tones, that her looks were often given him in gratitude, for the mere sound. Nataly also had her sense of safety in acquiescing to such a voice coming from such a garb.
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