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'Ah! it has been sadly neglected since my poor mother's time. We could not do much in those days, but still she loved this garden. I must depend upon you entirely to arrange my garden, Venetia. This spot is sacred to you. You have not forgotten our labours here, have you, Venetia? Ah! those were happy days, and these shall be more happy still.
He had no right, thereafter, to say that the Bourbons should continue to govern in the Two Sicilies, that the Dukes should be restored to their Duchies, and that Venetia should be guarantied to Austria. He felt this, as the terms of the treaties that were made very clearly show; for he was careful to abstain from pledging himself to anything of a definite character.
At length he said in a gloomy voice, 'I know it. 'Know it! exclaimed Venetia with astonishment. 'Who could have told you the secret? 'It is no secret, replied Cadurcis; 'would that it were! 'Would that it were! How strange you speak, how strange you look, Plantagenet! If it be no secret that I have a father, why this concealment then?
No, Venetia! you may think fit to bow to the feelings of your mother, and it would be impertinence in me to doubt for an instant the propriety of your conduct: I do not doubt it; I admire it; I admire you, and everything you have done; none can view your behaviour throughout all these painful transactions with more admiration, I might even say with more reverence, than myself; but, Venetia, you never can persuade me, you have never attempted to persuade me, that you yourself are incredulous of the strength and permanency of my cousin's love.
She wore a new hat that seemed bigger than the one he had last beheld and her manner was wild. She shut the door, walked to the table, placed her parasol on it and began peeling off a glove. "She's gone," said Venetia. Jones had risen to his feet. "Who's gone?" "Teresa gone with Maniloff." He sat down. Then she blazed out.
Again her voice sounded; she chanted, in an unearthly voice, verses. The perspiration stood in large drops on the pallid forehead of the mother as she listened. Still Venetia proceeded; and Lady Annabel, throwing herself on her knees, held up her hands to Heaven in an agony of astonishment, terror, and devotion. Now there was again silence; but her mother remained apparently buried in prayer.
The clock of the convent struck the second hour after midnight. Herbert started. And all this time where were Annabel and Venetia? They still lived, they were in the same country, an hour ago they were under the same roof, in the same chamber; their hands had joined, their hearts had opened, for a moment he had dared to believe that all that he cared for might be regained. And why was it not?
Lucy beside her stumbled among the cups, and grew more and more self-conscious; she had felt much the same at Benet's Park beside Lady Venetia Danby; only here there was a strong personal animosity and disapproval fighting with the disagreeable sense of being outshone. She left almost all the talk to her husband, and employed herself in looking after Cecile.
"Good heavens," said he, "what has become of your luggage?" "I don't know and I don't care," replied the roused one, "let it go with the rest." The car drew up. "You will stay with us to-night, I suppose," said Venetia coldly. "I suppose so," replied the other. Jones got out. "I will call here to-morrow morning at nine o'clock," said he. "I want the whole family present."
And Venetia looks up from her folio with a flushed and smiling face to catch the sympathy of her mother, who rewards her daughter's study with a kiss. Ah! there are no such mothers and no such daughters now!
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