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Viviette might have taken Louis into her confidence at last, for the sake of his brotherly advice. Swithin knew that of her own heart she would never wish to get rid of him; but coerced by Louis, might she not have grown to entertain views of its expediency? Events made such a supposition on St.
'Viviette, he said, 'I am sorry for my hasty words to you when I last left this house. I readily withdraw them. My suspicions took a wrong direction. I think now that I know the truth. You have been even madder than I supposed! 'In what way? she asked distantly. 'I lately thought that unhappy young man was only your too-favoured lover. 'You thought wrong: he is not.
She also saw that Dick was abnormally excited, and suspected that he had been drinking. Her delicate senses shrank from drunkenness. "You must tell the story," cried Viviette. "It's so romantic. You like romantic things, Katherine. The great-grandfather was a Dick Ware too Wild Dick Ware they used to call him. Go on, Dick." Dick paused for a moment.
He will come again in two or three weeks, I understand. This was enough. Swithin said he would call again, and returned to the cabin, where, waking Viviette, who was not by nature an early riser, he waited on the column till she was ready to breakfast. When this had been shared they prepared to start. A long walk was before them.
If we part, we do part. I have vowed a vow not to further obstruct the course you had decided on before you knew me and my puling ways; and by Heaven's help I'll keep that vow. . . . Now go. These are the parting words of your own Viviette! Swithin, who was stable as a giant in all that appertained to nature and life outside humanity, was a mere pupil in domestic matters.
You've no right to say that." "I have the right," cried Dick. "Hush!" said Austin, interposing. "There's no need to prolong this painful discussion. To-morrow as Viviette's guardian " "To-morrow?" Dick shouted. "Where shall I be to-morrow? Away from here unable to defend her unable to say a word." "If you said a thousand words," said Viviette, "they wouldn't make an atom of difference.
"Then I tell you, as man to man, that until this afternoon I had no suspicion that your feelings towards Viviette were deeper than those of an elder brother." Dick laughed bitterly. "You couldn't conceive a clod like me falling in love. Well?" "That's beside the question," said Austin. "I did not behave dishonourably towards you. I came down. I fell in love with Viviette. How could I help it?
"This is our day, Viviette," said Austin. "I shall always remember it." "So shall I. We must put a white mark against it in our diaries." "With white ink?" "Of course. Black would never do, nor red, nor violet." "But where shall we get it?" "I'll make us some when I get home out of white cloud and lilies and sunshine and a bit of the blue sky." Laughter fluttered through her veins.
He is awfully fond of you, and would not hurt you for the world." At the luncheon table, however, Austin did hurt him, in utter unconsciousness, by his gay command of the situation, his eager talk with Viviette of things Dick did not understand, places he had not visited, books he had never read, pictures he had never seen. It was heartache rather than envy.
I tried to murder Austin this afternoon!" Katherine closed her eyes. She had guessed it. But Viviette, with parted lips and white cheeks, groped her way backwards to a chair, without shifting her terror-stricken gaze from Dick; and sitting, she gripped the arms of the chair. There was a moment of tense silence. Banstead at last relieved his feelings with a gasping, "Well, I'm damned!"
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