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Yet, whatever he felt, no one could observe but that Nathanael was extremely polite and kind to Mrs. Thorny-croft. She on her part admired him extremely in whispers. "How well he looks! Really quite changed! No one would ever think of calling him a 'boy' now. You must be quite proud of your husband, my dear." Agatha smiled, and a light thrill at her heart betrayed its answer.
And when, soon after he departed, Emma Thorny-croft came in, all smiles, wonderings, and congratulations, Miss Bowen was in a mood cheerful enough to look the happy fiancée to the life; besides womanly and tender enough to hang round her friend's neck, testifying her old regard until Master James testified his also, and likewise his general sympathy in the scene, by flying at them both with bread-and-buttery fingers.
Putting her arm in his, he led her away proudly, as though she were already his own. Confused by her novel position, Agatha looked instinctively for some womanly encouragement, but Emma Thorny-croft was busily engaged in admiring observation of some wedding presents, and Mrs. Ianson was worse than nobody.
Punctually at eleven, but not a minute before, which Emma whispered was certainly not quite courteous in a bridegroom, Mr. Harper came in. There was no one with him. "My brother not here?" he said in anxiety. Some one hinted that Major Harper was never very punctual. "He ought to be, this day at least," observed Mr. Thorny-croft.
She sat up till after midnight, writing to Emma Thorny-croft, the only near friend to whom she had to write, the news of her engagement information that for many reasons she preferred giving by pen, not words. Finishing, she put her blind aside to have one freshening look at the trees in the square.
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