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I feel as if I had been there. 'You mean you have heard so much about it? 'Oh yes, nothing else for ten years. I had come to talk with Miss Mavis because she was attractive, but I had been rather conscious of the absence of a good topic, not feeling at liberty to revert to Mr. Porterfield. 'I see, you mean by letters, I remarked. 'I shan't live in a good part.
Lady Keith hesitated. Recollecting, however, that she had just left Ellen safe in the music-room, she made up her mind, and desired Porterfield to show the stranger in. As he entered, unannounced, her eyes unwillingly verified the butler's judgment; and to the inquiry whether he might see Miss Lindsay, she answered very politely, though with regrets, that Miss Lindsay was engaged.
'Oh, I don't care for her conversation I know what it amounts to. I made no rejoinder I scarcely knew what rejoinder to make and the girl went on, 'I know what she thinks and I know what she says. Still I was silent, but the next moment I saw that my delicacy had been wasted, for Miss Mavis asked, 'Does she make out that she knows Mr. Porterfield?
It seemed to me, the dreadful day, intolerably long; I was thinking so of vague, of inconceivable yet inevitable Porterfield, and of my having to face him somehow on the morrow. Now of course I knew why she had asked me if I should recognise him; she had delegated to me mentally a certain pleasant office. I gave Mrs. Peck and Mrs. Gotch a wide berth I couldn't talk to them.
'You can't make much? 'It doesn't make you rich. 'Oh, of course you have got to practise it and to practise it long. 'Yes so Mr. Porterfield says. Something in the way she uttered these words made me laugh they were so serene an implication that the gentleman in question did not live up to his principles.
Also that it would be a very happy moment for me too when I should hand her over to Mr. Porterfield." "And will you come up today?" "No indeed I think she'll do beautifully now." I heaved this time a sigh of relief. "All's well that ends well!" Jasper spent that day a great deal of time with his mother.
"I don't know where he is; but he was on this side of the water, at the time Ellen came on; so she told me." "I wish he was in Egypt!" "I don't intend he shall see her if he comes," said Lady Keith, "if I can possibly prevent it. I gave Porterfield orders, if any one asked for her, to tell me immediately, and not her upon any account; but nobody has come hitherto, and I am in hopes none will."
Porterfield as the least of her evils. But it isn't very amusing." "Well," I judged after all, "that only makes her doing it the more honourable. She'll go through with it, whatever it costs, rather than disappoint him after he has waited so long. It's true," I continued, "that when a woman acts from a sense of honour !" "Well, when she does?" said Mrs. Nettlepoint, for I hung back perceptibly.
'Keep her with you as much as possible. 'I don't follow you much, Mrs. Nettlepoint replied, 'but so far as I do I don't think your remarks are in very good taste. 'I'm too excited, I lose my head, cold-blooded as you think me. Doesn't she like Mr. Porterfield? 'Yes, that's the worst of it. 'The worst of it? 'He's so good there's no fault to be found with him.
Immermann planned to untie the knot in a second part, which was to treat of the salvation of Merlin; but he never carried his purpose beyond a few slight introductory passages. BY ALLEN WILSON PORTERFIELD, PH.D. Instructor in German, Columbia University
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