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It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature. Even when as merest children they came to be kissed before going to bed, he did not like the contact of their faces with his. No woman, and perhaps not many men will understand this; but it was always a relief to Mr. Raymount to have the nightly ceremony over.
Raymount was much pleased with Christopher, and even Corney found himself drawn to his side, feeling, though he did not know it, a strength in him that offered protection. The day went on in the simplest, pleasantest intercourse. After lunch, Hester opened her piano, and asked Miss Dasomma, gifted in her art even to the pitch prophetic, to sit down and play "upon us" she said.
He took it and, with a look asking if he might, opened it. The major had known for some time that Mr. Raymount wanted to sell the house, and believed, from the way Hester spent herself in London, he could not rejoice her better than by purchasing it for her; so, just as it was, with everything as it stood in it, he made it his birthday-gift to her.
You must help him to be good, for that is the chief duty of every one towards a neighbour, and particularly of a wife towards a husband." Amy was crying afresh, and made no answer; but there was not the most shadowy token of resentment in her weeping. In the meantime things had been going very gloomily at Yrndale. Mrs. Raymount was better in health but hardly more cheerful.
If he had never gone right why should she wonder he had gone wrong? The doctor was sitting by the bedside, watching the effect of something he had given her. Mr. Raymount rose and led Hester from the room sternly almost, as if she had been to blame for it all. Some people when they are angry, speak as if they were angry with the person to whom they are in fact looking for comfort.
She knocked at the door. It was opened by the parish doctor. "You cannot come in, Miss Raymount," he said. "We have a very bad case of small-pox here. You good ladies must make up your minds to keep away from these parts for a while. Their bodies are in more danger than their souls now." "That may very well be," replied Hester.
When Raymount saw the creature who had turned his hitherto happy life into a shame and a misery lying at his feet thus abject, he became instantly conscious of the whip in his hand, and without a moment's pause, a moment's thought, heaved his arm aloft, and brought it down with a fierce lash on the quivering flesh of his son.
Raymount was so disgusted, that he said nothing of the kind should ever again take place in his house: he had not bought it to make a music-hall of it! If any change was about to appear in Vavasor a change in the fortunes of the Raymounts prevented it. What the common judgment calls luck seems to have odd predilections and prejudices with regard to families as well as individuals.
Vavasor took upon him to assure Mrs. Raymount that Mark was safe and would be all right in a little while. She rose then, and with what help Saffy could give her, managed to walk home. But after that day she never was so well again. Vavasor ran on to the house. Mr. Raymount crossed the river by the bridge, and was soon on the spot just as the first signs of returning animation appeared.
The new earl wrote that he had been to the funeral, and described in a would-be humorous way the house and lands to which he had fallen heir. The house might, he said, with unlimited money, be made fit to live in, but what was left of the estate was literally a mere savage mountain. Mr. Raymount went now and then to London, but never stayed long.
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