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Robert's parsonage, however, and Robert's wife had no attractions for him; and it was with an effort that he had made up his mind to accept the invitation which Catherine had made an effort to write. And, after all, the experience promised to be pleasant. His fastidious love for the quieter, subtler sorts of beauty was touched by the Elsmere surroundings.
The garden stuff planted on Robert's spring-burn ground had flourished; more than two hundred bushels per acre of potatoes were lodged in the root-house, and a quantity of very fine turnips and carrots. Beans had not thriven: he learned that the climate is considered unfavourable for them.
He wasn't in the least tired, not he! I won't say so much for myself. The Mr. Jameson. He appears to be a cultivated and refined person, and especially versed in German criticism, and we mean to use his society a little when we return to Florence, where he resides.... What am I to say about Robert's idleness and mine?
Then he drew the curtains and threw himself down into Robert's chair with a sigh of Sybaritic satisfaction. 'Good! Now for something that takes the world less naïvely, he said to himself; 'this house is too virtuous for anything. He opened his Montaigne and read on very happily for half an hour. The house seemed entirely deserted.
He made Madame de Netteville, therefore, a cordial smiling reply, before his tall slender form disappeared after that of his wife. 'Agreeable rather an acquisition! said Madame de Netteville to Lady Aubrey, with a light motion of the head toward Robert's retreating figure. 'But the wife! Good heavens! I owe Roger Wendover a grudge.
For Robert's scheme, in which her reason fully acquiesced, was to keep to their plan of going to Switzerland, he having first, of course, settled all things with the bishop, and having placed his living in the hands of Mowbray Elsmere. When they left the rectory, in a week or ten days' time, he proposed, in fact, his voice almost inaudible as he did so, that Catherine should leave it for good.
Its business first of all is to pay its debt, whatever the cost. The voice was low, but it had the clear, vibrating ring of steel. Robert's face had darkened visibly. 'But, surely, he cried, goaded by a now stinging sense of revolt and pain-'surely the child may make a fatal mistake if it imagines that its own happiness counts for nothing in the parents' eyes.
But in spite of all these smiling and innocent graces one could yet discern in Robert's heiress a will firm and resolute to brave every obstacle, and the dark rings that circled her fine eyes plainly showed that her heart was already agitated by passions beyond her years.
Not that there were two minds among us about 'the case'; it was a preposterous case, sentimentally undignified, from some points of view deplorable. I chose to reserve my point of view, from which I saw it, on Judy's behalf, merely quixotic, preferring on Robert's just to close my eyes.
They came presently into a region of cultivation, fields which would be green with grain in the spring, showing here and there, and the smoke from the chimney of a stout log house rising now and then. Where a creek broke into a swift white fall stood a grist mill, and from a wood the sound of axes was heard. Robert's vivid imagination, which responded to all changes, kindled at once.
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