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Oh, don't let me excite your curiosity or your pity! Follow the example of Mr. Westwick. Be hard and brutal and unforgiving, like him. Grant me my release. Tell me to go. The frank and simple nature of Agnes could discover but one intelligible meaning in this strange outbreak. 'You are mistaken in thinking me your enemy, she said.
Her head sank on her bosom: she stood before Agnes like a conscious culprit before a merciless judge. The silence that followed was, literally, the silence of fear on both sides. In the midst of it, the door was opened once more and Henry Westwick appeared. He looked at Lady Montbarry with a moment's steady attention bowed to her with formal politeness and passed on in silence.
The day had advanced to evening. Lord Montbarry and the bridal party had gone to the Opera. Agnes alone, pleading the excuse of fatigue, remained at the hotel. Having kept up appearances by accompanying his friends to the theatre, Henry Westwick slipped away after the first act, and joined Agnes in the drawing-room.
Agnes received him with even more than her customary kindness. She was in better spirits than usual. Her letter to Mrs. Stephen Westwick had been answered by return of post; and her proposal had been joyfully accepted, with one modification.
My little loves, do you sniff a nasty smell here ha? The children burst out laughing, and answered emphatically, 'No. 'My good Westwick, the Frenchman resumed, in his own language, 'the conclusion is surely plain? There is something wrong, very wrong, with your own nose. I recommend you to see a medical man.
But is the tie that once bound us, completely broken? Am I as entirely parted from the good and evil fortune of his life as if we had never met and never loved? What do you think, Henry? I can hardly believe it. 'If you could bring the retribution on him that he has deserved, Henry Westwick answered sternly, 'I might be inclined to agree with you.
Distrusting the sort of life which he knew his daughter would lead under her aunt's roof, and at the same time gratefully remembering his sister's affectionate devotion toward his dying wife and her helpless infant, Major Yelverton had attempted to make a compromise, which, while it allowed Lady Westwick the close domestic intercourse with her niece that she had earned by innumerable kind offices, should, at the same time, place the young girl for a fixed period of every year of her minority under the corrective care of two such quiet old-fashioned guardians as his brother and myself.
We were very merry at the breakfast, and the speeches went off on the whole quite well enough. The last speech, before the party broke up, was made by Mr. Henry Westwick, and was the best of all. He offered a happy suggestion, at the end, which has produced a very unexpected change in my life here.
It was the card of Henry Westwick; and there was an ominous request written on it in pencil. 'I bring bad news. Let me see you for a minute downstairs. Agnes immediately left the room. Alone with Mrs. Ferrari, Mr. Troy permitted his natural kindness of heart to show itself on the surface at last. He tried to make his peace with the courier's wife.
'I am afraid you have almost forgotten the "Master Henry" of old times. Emily, in some little confusion, made her acknowledgments, and begged to know if she could be of any use to Miss Lockwood. 'The old nurse is with her, Henry answered; 'they will be better left together. He turned once more to Mr. Troy. 'I ought to tell you, he said, 'that my name is Henry Westwick.
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