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"Oh, very well," said she, "disobliging thing!" with perfect good humor, mind you. Vizard, however, was not pleased. "You go with her, Ned," said he. "Miss Dover prefers to stay and smoke a cigar with me." Miss Dover's face reddened, but she never budged. And it ended in Zoe taking Severne with her to call on Rhoda Gale.
Severne sat behind them with Fanny, a spectator of his open admiration. He could not defend himself so well as last night, and he felt humiliated by the position. It was renewed day after day. Zoe often cast a glance back, and drew him into the conversation; yet, on the whole, Uxmoor thrust him aside by his advantages and his resolute wooing. The same thing at dinner.
However, I think I shall be happier in a few minutes, or else very unhappy indeed. That depends on you." "On me, Mr. Severne?" and she blushed crimson, and her bosom began to heave. His words led her to expect a declaration and a proposal of marriage. He saw her mistake; and her emotion spoke so plainly and sweetly, and tried him so, that it cost him a great effort not to clasp her in his arms.
Let nothing escape that woman's eye of yours: and so we'll get something for our money." "Harrington," said the girl proudly, "I will be all eye and ear." Soon after this they went in to dinner. Zoe cast her eyes round for Severne, and was manifestly disappointed at his not meeting them even there.
Art, said Severne to himself, is an enduring truth. Human passions are misleading. Self-sacrifice is noble. He resolved on the spot to become a martyr to his art. "I will never do it!" he answered, and stalked majestically from the room. Severne took his trouble henceforward in a becomingly serious-minded manner.
Zoe's thoughts ran in quite another channel; but she was no easier in her mind. It really seemed as if Severne had given her the slip.
They had applauded those splendid lies, and now they turned out not to be lies at all, but merely an extremely crazy sort of truth. They relieved their feelings by getting very drunk and shooting out the lights. It took Severne a week to get over it. Ten days after that he returned East. He had finished a masterpiece.
At no period are more patients thrown away for want of vigilance. Now I can guard against chills and other bodily things, but not against excitements unless you co-operate. The fact is, we must agree to avoid speaking about Mr. Severne. We must be on our guard. We must parry; we must evade; we must be deaf, stupid, slippery; but no Severne for five or six days more, at all events."
You see, I had my misgivings about this very thing; and as soon as Vizard came home it was he who took her to Aunt Maitland I asked him what precautions he had taken to hinder that man from getting hold of her again. Well, then oh, I ought to have begun by telling you Mr. Severne forged bills to get money out of Harrington." "Good Heavens!"
Such a man as you are ought not to be tied to any woman, or, if you must be, you ought not to go cheap. Mind, Zoe is a poor girl; only ten thousand in the world. Flirt with whom you like there is no harm in that; but don't get seriously entangled with any of them. Good sisters, and good daughters, and good flirts make bad wives." "Oh, then," said Severne, "it is only on my account you object."
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