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He liked Lucia, and admired her, and thought, too, that there would be no better way of blotting out the remembrance of the mother's unfortunate marriage than by a prosperous one on the part of the daughter. Meantime Mrs. Wynter sat in an easy-chair by her dressing-table, and her daughter was curled up on the floor near her. "Well, mamma," Miss Wynter said, "you see I was right.
"What is there in Everett's cupboard besides the beer?" demands the professor angrily. "For Heaven's sake! attend to me, and don't sit there grinning like a first-class chimpanzee!" This is extremely rude, but Hardinge takes no notice of it. "I tell you she was kind kinder than one would expect," says the professor, rapping his knuckles on the table. "Oh! I see. She? Miss Wynter?" "No Mrs.
There was a widow and her son and daughter, and one or two young people besides, as well as all the younger members of the Wynter family. The two elder ladies were having a little comfortable chat over their work, and the others were gathered round the piano, when Maurice's arrival was heard. "Who can it be?" Mrs. Wynter said doubtfully. "It is not possible Mr. Wynter can be back to-night."
I know I should have hated him just as you did when you were a girl." "I hope not. At any rate, you must not hate him now, for I have asked him to be your guardian, and he has consented." Lucia shuddered at that word "guardian," and the thought implied in it, but she determined to say no more about her prejudice against Mr. Wynter. "You know," Mrs.
Wynter coming, when she fled, dishevelled, to her own, and dropped asleep, to dream of following Lucia up the aisle of an impossible church, dressed in white with ribbons of bleu de ciel. Lucia perhaps had said to herself also that she meant to be good friends with Tiny.
His wrathful eyes are on his brother rather than on her when he says: "You are tired?" "Yes," says Perpetua. "Shall I take you to Gwendoline?" "Yes," says Perpetua again. "Miss Wynter is in my care at present," says Sir Hastings, coming indolently forward. "Shall I take you to Lady Baring?" asks he, addressing Perpetua with a suave smile.
"At least," glancing at the half-read letter on the cloth "this tells me so. His solicitor's, I suppose. Though what Wynter could want with a solicitor Poor old fellow! He was often very good to me in the old days. I don't believe I should have done even as much as I have done, without him.... It must be fully ten years since he threw up his work here and went to Australia! ... ten years.
She had indeed only time for a hurried survey, for their packing had to be completed by her hands; and she knew that the arrival of the ship would soon be known, and that if Mr. Wynter had kept his promise of meeting them, he might appear at any moment. She went down, therefore, and found Mrs.
Mr. Wynter proposed to meet them at Havre, and, if possible, accompany them to Paris. "If you are travelling alone," he said, "I may be of service to you; and since you have decided on going to France, I should like to see you comfortably settled there. By that means, too, we shall have plenty of time to talk over whatever arrangements you wish made with regard to your daughter.
Costello should feel herself called upon to avow her marriage for her husband's sake, Lucia should first be sent to England and confided to the care of her mother's cousin, George Wynter, so that she, at least, might be spared the hard task of facing her small familiar world under a new and degraded character. But of this plan Lucia suspected nothing.
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