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At this distance it was easy to deceive oneself, but did not that face bring something back? Now, as he smiled, it seemed to recall Buckland Warricombe with a difference. This might well be a younger brother; there used to be one or two. They were familiar with the Cathedral, and at present appeared to take exclusive interest in certain mural monuments.
Godwin hastened to respond with civil inquiries. 'I was very glad to hear from Mr. Warricombe a few days ago, he continued. Sidwell was not aware that her father had written, but her pleased smile seemed to signify the contrary. 'She looks younger, Peak said in his mind. 'Perhaps that London dress and the new way of arranging her hair have something to do with it.
Before he could reply, Peak had to exchange greetings with Mrs Warricombe and her daughter. Only once hitherto had he met them. Six months ago he had gone out with Buckland to the country-house and passed an afternoon there, making at the time no very favourable impression on his hostess.
With the genial geologist he felt himself on excellent terms, and much of this was ascribable to a singular chance which had masked his real being, and represented him, with scarce an effort of his own, in a light peculiarly attractive to Mr. Warricombe. He was now playing the conscious hypocrite; not a pleasant thing to face and accept, but the fault was not his fate had brought it about.
As the summer drew on, Mrs Warricombe began to lend serious ear to this suggestion of change, and Martin was at all events moved to discuss the pros and cons of half a year in London.
Marcella told all that she knew, and without injunction of secrecy. The affair had passed out of her hands; destiny must fulfil itself. And again the tremor that resembled an uneasy joy went through her frame. 'But how, asked Christian, 'did this fellow Warricombe come to know that I was a friend of Peak's? 'That's a puzzle to me.
On leaving the College perchance he had lost all connection with those common friends who might have informed him of subsequent jokes and rumours. Unlikely, to be sure; for doubtless some of his Whitelaw contemporaries encountered him at Cambridge; and again, was it not probable that the younger Warricombe had become a Whitelaw student? Then Professor Gale no matter!
'Now, there's a question! cried Sylvia, appealing to the rest of the company. 'I agree with Mr. Warricombe, remarked her mother. 'It's better to be in a comfortable room. 'Oh, you Radicals! What a world you will make of it in time! Sylvia affected to turn away in disgust, and happening to glance through the window she saw two young ladies approaching from the road.
The chance of its doing so had of course increased since Christian began to associate freely with the Walworths and their circle. Yet, considering the slightness of the connection between that group of people and the Warricombe family, there had seemed no great likelihood of Christian's getting acquainted with the latter. She debated rapidly in her troubled mind how to meet this disclosure.
If we don't see each other again, write to me at Trinity before the end of the year. As soon as she was sufficiently remote, Mrs. Warricombe ejaculated in a subdued voice of irritation: 'Such a very unprepossessing young man I never met! He seems to have no breeding whatever. 'Overweighted with brains, replied her husband; adding to himself, 'and by no means so with money, I fear.
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