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'I am very glad, said Rachel, 'that you do know everything. It is so great a relief to have companionship. I often thought I must go mad in my solitude. 'Poor Rachel! I think you wonderful I think you a heroine I do, Radie; you and I are made for one another the same blood something of the same wild nature; I can admire you, and understand you, and will always love you.
I'll drink some tea, please, if you have got any, and it isn't too much trouble; and it strikes me as very curious you like living in this really very humiliating state. 'I don't intend to go out for a governess, if that's what you mean; nor is there any privation in living as I do. Perhaps you think I ought to go and housekeep for you. 'Why ha, ha! I really don't know, Radie, where I shall be.
'So do I, Dorcas, said Rachel, in a firm low whisper, returning her look as darkly. 'What's done cannot be undone, said Rachel, sadly, after a little pause, unconsciously quoting from a terrible soliloquy of Shakespeare. 'I know what you mean, Radie; and you warned me, with a strange second-sight, before the evil was known to either of us.
Imperfectly as it was seen, he could understand it. She did not bid him welcome or even speak. There was a silence. 'Now, you're not angry with me, Radie dear; I venture to say I suffer more than you: and how could I have anticipated the strange turn things have taken?
And to crown all, Miss Radie had grown tired of keeping her own secret, and must needs bring to light the buried disgraces which all concerned were equally interested in hiding away for ever. Stanley Lake's position, if all were known, was at this moment formidable enough.
With a start, Rachel glanced back, and saw the pale, peculiar face of her brother. His yellow eyes for a moment gleamed into hers, and then on the vicar, and, with his accustomed smile, he extended his hand. 'How do you do? better, I hope, Radie? How are you, William? Rachel grew deadly pale, and then flushed, and then was pale again. 'I thought, Stanley, you were in London.
He was not addicted to stormy greetings, and patted his sister's shoulder gently, his arm a little extended, like a man who tranquillises a frolicsome pony. 'Yes, Radie, you see I've found you out; and his eye wandered, still smiling oddly, over the front of her quaint habitation. 'And how have you been, Radie? 'Oh, very well.
I only meant you used not to be a fool, and pray don't begin now; for I assure you Radie and I would not ask it if it could be avoided. You have Miss Radie's secret in your hands, I don't think you'd like to injure her, and you used to be trustworthy. I don't think your Bible teaches you anywhere to hurt your neighbour and to break faith.
'Now, Dorkie is going to talk her wicked nonsense over again, as if I had never answered it. What about Radie? I do assure you, so far from taking her advice, and thinking her an oracle, as you suppose, I believe her in some respects very little removed from a fool. 'I think her very clever, on the contrary, said Dorcas, enigmatically.
'I told you Chelford would be here, said Miss Brandon to Rachel, in a low tone, glancing at the young peer. 'I thought he had returned to Brighton. I fancied he might be you know the Dulhamptons are at Brighton; and Lady Constance, of course, has a claim on his time and thoughts. Rachel smiled as she spoke, and was adjusting her bouquet, as Dorcas made answer 'Lady Constance, my dear Radie!
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