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"How do you know?" he asked, as though he were merely curious. "Because I'm a woman, and she's a woman," said Euphrasia. "Oh, she didn't confess it. If she had, I shouldn't think so much of her. But she told me as plain as though she had spoken it in words, before she left this room." Austen shook his head again. "Phrasie," he said, "I'm afraid you've been building castles in Spain."
L. Pray, what would your sagacity have proposed for grandpapa and the small children? C. I do think it is quite shocking of Aunt Phrasie to be in such haste to marry! L. After eleven years eh? or twelve, is it? C. I mean of course so soon after her mother's death. L. You know dear granny herself begged that the wedding might not be put off on that account. C. Mr. Holland might come and live here.
MR. A. To board? All alone? E. Oh! that's the way with young ladies! MR. A. Mary cannot have consented. E. Have you done, little folks? Then say grace, Hilda, and run out till the lesson bell rings. Yes, poor Mary, I am afraid she thinks all that Cecilia decrees is right; or if she does not naturally believe so, she is made to. MR. A. Come, come, Phrasie, I always thought Mary a model mother.
C. Of course, when country freedom was everything, and we knew nothing of rational intercourse; but when all the most intellectual houses are open to me, it is intolerable to be buried alive here with nothing to talk of but clerical shop, and nothing to do but read to old women, and cram the unfortunate children with the catechism. And mother and Aunt Phrasie expect me to be in raptures!
It was the first sign, since his return the night before, Euphrasia had given that an affection for Hilary Vane lurked beneath the nature. "She won't stay long, Phrasie," he answered, and added mischievously, "for a very good reason." "And what's that?" asked Euphrasia. "Because you won't allow her to.
They added that she had given birth to a little girl, and that, two weeks later she had disappeared, and they had never heard a word from her. When I left them, they said to me, 'If you see Phrasie, ask her if she ever knew old Chandour and his wife. I am sure she'll remember us." For the first time Mme. de Thaller shuddered slightly; but it was almost imperceptible.
I'd like to tell you, but I can't I can't. It was only because you guessed that I said anything about it." He disengaged his hand, and rose, and patted her on the cheek. "I suppose I had to tell somebody," he said, "and you seemed, somehow, to be the right person, Phrasie." Euphrasia rose abruptly and looked up intently into his face.
It was the first sign, since his return the night before, Euphrasia had given that an affection for Hilary Vane lurked beneath the nature. "She won't stay long, Phrasie," he answered, and added mischievously, "for a very good reason." "And what's that?" asked Euphrasia. "Because you won't allow her to.
Yet it seems hardly fair to make my health the lever, when really there is nothing serious the matter. MRS. H. I can't understand the infatuation. Can there be any love affair? MRS. M. Oh no, Phrasie; it is worse! MRS. H. Worse! Mary, what can you mean? MRS. M. Yes, it IS worse. I got at the whole truth yesterday. My poor child's faith has gone!
I've seen her leave the house on a bright Sabbath half an hour before meetin' to be gone the whole day, and Hilary and all the ministers in town couldn't stop her." "I'll drop in once in a while to see you, Phrasie. I'll be at Jabe Jenney's." "Jabe's is not more than three or four miles from Flint's place," Euphrasia remarked. "I've thought of that," said Austen. "You'd thought of it!"
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