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The bridegroom was a fine tall man, with a bold eye and a dashing manner. The bride and I recognized each other directly. When Miss Chance had become Mrs. Tenbruggen, she took me aside, and gave me her card. 'Ask the Governor to accept it, she said, 'in remembrance of the time when he took me for a nursemaid. Tell him I am married to a Dutch gentleman of high family.
Tenbruggen would wait to set her enterprise on foot, until I was out of her way; and I had calculated on my absence as an event which would at least put an end to suspense by encouraging her to begin. The first sentences in Miss Jillgall's letter explain the nature of her interest in the proceedings of her friend, and are, on that account, worth reading.
You have got a spare bed here, I know, and your poor father is in no condition to use his authority. Make Philip one of the family." This last piece of advice staggered me. I mentioned the Proprieties. Mrs. Tenbruggen laughed at the Proprieties. "Make Selina of some use," she suggested. "While you have got her in the house, Propriety is rampant. Why condemn poor helpless Philip to cheap lodgings?
Tenbruggen's efforts to find an employment for Philip, worthy of his abilities and accomplishments. The member of Parliament to whom she had applied has chosen a secretary possessed of political influence. That is the excuse put forward in his letter to Mrs. Tenbruggen. Wretched corrupt creature! If he was worth a thought I should pity him. He has lost Philip's services.
Tenbruggen." As a man of the world, I ought to have been capable of concealing my astonishment and dismay. She struck me dumb. Mrs. Tenbruggen in the town! The one woman whose appearance Mr. Gracedieu had dreaded, and justly dreaded, stood before me free, as a friend of his kinswoman, to enter his house, at the very time when he was a helpless man, guarded by watchers at his bedside.
Tenbruggen eyed me with an appearance of interest which I was at a loss to account for. I hate an impudent woman. My visit came suddenly to an end. The next time I saw my father, he was alone. I asked him how he got on with Mrs. Tenbruggen. As badly as possible, it appeared. "She takes liberties with my neck; she interrupts me in my reading; and she does me no good.
They appeared to understand each other perfectly when I was at the farmhouse." "Excuse me, Mrs. Tenbruggen, that is what I know already. Why did Philip go to the Governor?" She smiled. "If anybody is acquainted with the true state of your sister's feelings, the Governor is the man. I sent Mr. Dunboyne to consult him and there is the reason for it."
She began to read. As she went on, not all her power of controlling herself could prevent her from turning pale. When a girl is devoured by deadly hatred of a man, does the feeling show itself to other persons in her face? I must practice before the glass and train my face into a trustworthy state of discipline. "Coarse melodrama!" Mrs. Tenbruggen declared. "Mere sensation.
"The farmer has been called away, and I want to speak to you." Very unwillingly but how could I have refused without giving offense? I entered the room. "When you noticed my keeping my name from you," Mrs. Tenbruggen began, "while Selina was with us, you placed me in an awkward position.
I had just begun to write my reply, gladly accepting the invitation, when an ominous circumstance occurred. My servant announced "a lady"; and I found myself face to face with Mrs. Tenbruggen! She was as cheerful as ever, and as eminently agreeable as ever. "I have heard it all from Selina," she said. I warned. Selina that Miss Helena would end badly. To tell the truth, she frightened me.
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