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"You know, darling, he'll have to get used to me as a brother!" "He says he wants to see you to to have it out with you," said Marcia, awkwardly. Then with a sudden movement, she clasped both her hands round Newbury's arm. "Edward! do do make us all happy!" He looked down on the liquid eyes, the fresh young face raised appealingly to his. "How can I make you happy?"
And she had begun already to know the exquisite, the intoxicating joys of self-surrender. Every hour had revealed to her something more of Newbury's lofty and singular character.
Newbury's face, as he spoke, was before her, quietly smiling, its handsome features alive with an exaltation which had both chilled and fascinated the girl looking at him. As she remembered it the thought arose "he would accept any martyrdom for himself, in defense of what he believes and loves and therefore he will inflict it inexorably on others. But that's the point!
Newbury's sympathy with her mother was as balm to Marcia; insensibly she rewarded him, both by an open and charming mood, and also by a docility, a readiness to listen to the Newbury view of life which she had never yet shown. The May day, meanwhile, murmured and gleamed around them.
Newbury's ingenious citizen, Jacob Perkins, in drawing out diseases with his metallic tractors, was quite as successful as modern "faith and mind" doctors. The Quakers, whipped at Hampton on one hand and at Salem on the other, went back and forth unmolested in Newbury, for they could make no impression on its iron-clad orthodoxy.
He will only marry Miss Glenwilliam over his mother's body and if he does marry her he may whistle for the estates." "Then James will have them?" said Newbury, smiling. "Why not Marcia? She has as good a chance as anybody." "I hope not!" Newbury's tone showed a genuine discomfort. "What is Lady Coryston doing?" "About the Glenwilliam affair?
More than two centuries ago, when Major Pike, just across the river, stood up and denounced in open town meeting the law against freedom of conscience and worship, and was in consequence fined and outlawed, some of Newbury's best citizens stood bravely by him.
"Which of course we should do." The quiet, determined voice sent a shiver through Marcia. She caught Newbury's hand in hers, and held it close. "Yes, but Edward! listen! it would kill them both. His mind seems to be giving way. I got a letter from her again this morning, inclosing one from their doctor.
Lady William's jewels emerged from Newbury's pocket, and Marcia blazed with them, there and then, under the trees. They laughed together at the ugly setting, and planned a new one.
"What does all this mean?" she seemed to be asking herself. "What does it mean for me? Can I play my part in it?" What had become of that early antagonism and revolt which she had expressed to "Waggin"? It had not protected her in the least from Newbury's growing ascendancy! She was indeed astonished at her own pliancy!
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