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They lapsed into conversation on the early days of their acquaintance, until Mrs. Pierston's daughter re-entered the room. 'Avice, said her mother, when the girl had been with them a few minutes. 'About this matter that I have talked over with you so many times since my attack. Here is Mr. Pierston, and he wishes to be your husband.
In thinking how best to do this Pierston recollected that, as was customary when the summer-time approached, Sylvania Castle had been advertised for letting furnished.
I can say no more. Avice looked appealingly at the sculptor, and then on the floor. 'Does he really wish me to? she asked almost inaudibly, turning as she spoke to Pierston. 'He has never quite said so to me. 'My dear one, how can you doubt it? said Jocelyn quickly. 'But I won't press you to marry me as a favour, against your feelings. 'I thought Mr.
It was possibly because of his utter domestic loneliness that, during the productive interval which followed the first years of Marcia's departure, when he was drifting along from five-and-twenty to eight-and-thirty, Pierston occasionally loved with an ardour though, it is true, also with a self-control unknown to him when he was green in judgment.
'No: I shall not care to come again, he answered, in a tone inaudible to the young ladies. She followed him to the door. 'What an uncivil thing to say! she murmured in surprise. 'It is rather uncivil. Good-bye, said Pierston. As a punishment she did not ring the bell, but left him to find his way out as he could.
Nothing occurred till the evening to inform him how his absence had been taken. Then a note arrived from Mrs. Pierston; it was written in pencil, evidently as she lay. 'I am alarmed, she said, 'at your going so suddenly. Avice seems to think she has offended you. She did not mean to do that, I am sure. It makes me dreadfully anxious! Will you send a line?
'Yes; her father had the biggest stone-trade on the island at one time; but the name is forgotten here now. He retired years before I was born. However, mother used to tell me that she was a handsome young woman, who tried to catch Mr. Pierston when he was a young man, and scandalized herself a bit with him.
Read ye this, sir. It was left in her bedroom, and we be fairly gallied out of our senses! He took the letter and confusedly beheld that it was in two handwritings, the first section being in Avice's: 'MY DEAR MOTHER, How ever will you forgive me for what I have done! So deceitful as it seems. And yet till this night I had no idea of deceiving either you or Mr. Pierston.
But I'll tell her, sir. 'I will see her myself. Send her in when she comes, said Pierston. One morning, accordingly, when he was answering a spiteful criticism of a late work of his, he was told that she waited his pleasure in the hall. He went out. 'About the washing, said the sculptor stiffly. 'I am a very particular person, and I wish no preparation of lime to be used.
As he went downstairs, and found Avice awaiting his descent, he wondered if anything had occurred here during his absence to give Mrs. Pierston new uneasiness about the marriage, but it was an inquiry he could not address to a girl whose actions could alone be the cause of such uneasiness. He looked round for her as he supped, but though she had come into the room with him she was not there now.
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