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I should have been in the utmost difficulties. Think of my position if I had been without a friend in the town. Then, indeed, but for Miss Redwing I should have heard nothing even yet. 'She wrote to you? 'Not to me; she mentioned the matter in a letter to my aunt, Mrs. Rossall. 'Did Beatrice you let me question? did she know?
Athel and his sister both observed her real preoccupation, as if of trouble, and mentally attributed it to something that had passed during the afternoon's ride. Mrs. Rossall did not look for confidences.
Then there were almost always guests at the house. With prudent regard to the character of these visitors, Mrs. Rossall chose opportunities for inviting the governess to the drawing-room during the evening, but Emily was not wholly at her ease under such conditions, and Wilfrid was withheld by only half-conscious motives from talking with her at these times.
Rossall had spoken to her of Beatrice Redwing's delightful singing, and had asked her to come to the drawing-room during the evening; having declined the afternoon's drive, Emily did not feel able to neglect this other invitation. The day had become sultry towards its close; when she joined the company about nine o'clock, she found Beatrice with Mrs.
Even Cuthbert Aston was not proof against that charm, although in a sense he and Bernard were rivals. For it must have been as evident to Violet Rossall as it was to all onlookers that both Murray and Aston sought her company in preference to that of any other maiden of their acquaintance; which of the two was preferred by her was not so evident, since she seemed to favor both alike.
'Beatrice! cried Mrs. Rossall, following the general direction of eyes. 'Here already! But you surely haven't come from town this morning? 'But indeed I have, was the reply, in a joyous voice, whose full, rich quality took the ear captive. 'Will you let me sit down just as I am? Patty, here's a rose for you, and, Minnie, another for you. She took them from her dress. 'How do you do, Mr.
Athel found it no particular hardship to get away from town and pursue his work at The Firs, a delightful house in the midst of Surrey's fairest scenery, nor would Mrs. Rossall allow that the surrender of high season cost her any effort. This lady had just completed her thirty-second year; her girls were in their tenth.
'This end of twilight is so pleasant. Mrs. Rossall went to the piano, upon which still fell a glimmer from another window, and filled the room with harmony suiting the hour. Wilfrid had come in and seated himself on a couch in a dark corner; his father paced up and down the grass. Emily watched the first faint gleam of stars in the upper air. Then lamps and candles were brought in.
Would you conceal from Mrs. Rossall Wilfrid mused. 'I meant to. But your instincts are truer than mine; say what you think. I believe my father would countenance it, for it involves no real deceit. 'If you wish it, Emily said, after a silence, in a low voice. 'Of my aunt, pursued Wilfrid, 'I have just this degree of doubt.
Rossall raised her eyebrows a little, and kept her air of pained musing. 'Well, what is to be done? resumed her brother, always impatient of mere negatives. 'He has delivered a sort of ultimatum. In the event of this proposal as to Miss Hood's return being rejected, he marries at once. 'And then goes back to Balliol? 'No, simply abandons his career. Mrs. Rossall smiled.
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