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Updated: June 13, 2025
When Melbury heard what had happened he seemed much moved, and walked thoughtfully about the premises. On South's own account he was genuinely sorry; and on Winterborne's he was the more grieved in that this catastrophe had so closely followed the somewhat harsh dismissal of Giles as the betrothed of his daughter.
She became quite a student, reading more than she had done since her marriage But her seclusion was always broken for the periodical visit to Winterborne's grave with Marty, which was kept up with pious strictness, for the purpose of putting snow-drops, primroses, and other vernal flowers thereon as they came.
Beaucock will go with me, and we shall get the best advice as soon as we possibly can. Beaucock is a thorough lawyer nothing the matter with him but a fiery palate. I knew him as the stay and refuge of Sherton in knots of law at one time." Winterborne's replies were of the vaguest. The new possibility was almost unthinkable by him at the moment.
To go in her customary direction she could not avoid passing Winterborne's house. The morning sun was shining flat upon its white surface, and the words, which still remained, were immediately visible to her. She read them. Her face flushed to crimson.
So it was settled in his mind that her sudden mingling with the villagers at the unlucky Winterborne's was the cause of her most grievous loss, as he deemed it, in the direction of Hintock House. "'Tis a thousand pities!" he would repeat to himself. "I am ruining her for conscience' sake!"
Grace might have stood there five minutes when she fancied she heard that old sound, a cough, at no great distance; and it was presently repeated. If it were Winterborne's, he must be near her; why, then, had he not visited her? A horrid misgiving that he could not visit her took possession of Grace, and she looked up anxiously for the lantern, which was hanging above her head.
His eyes sadly contemplated her face as its pale responsiveness modulated through a crowd of expressions that showed only too clearly to what a pitch she was strung. If ever Winterborne's heart fretted his bosom it was at this sight of a perfectly defenceless creature conditioned by such circumstances. He forgot his own agony in the satisfaction of having at least found her a shelter.
"Perhaps that's true," said Winterborne, rising and yawning a sigh. "'Tis a pity a thousand pities!" her father kept saying next morning at breakfast, Grace being still in her bedroom. But how could he, with any self-respect, obstruct Winterborne's suit at this stage, and nullify a scheme he had labored to promote was, indeed, mechanically promoting at this moment?
"Well, get off and come in," said Melbury, brusquely; and Giles dismounted accordingly. This event was the concrete result of Winterborne's thoughts during the past week or two.
It is upon John South's life that all Mr. Winterborne's houses hang. If so be South die, and so make his decease, thereupon the law is that the houses fall without the least chance of absolution into HER hands at the House. I told him so; but the words of the faithful be only as wind!" The news was true.
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