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"If every woman were as straightforward and honorable as you, Janetta, there would be fewer miserable marriages," said Wyvis, slowly. "You are, no doubt, right to speak; but, on the other hand, our family record is much worse than yours. If one of you can condescend to take one of us, I think we shall have the advantage." Janetta drew a long breath. "Then, will you help me in what I ask?"
It is all right, dear grandmother, and you must remember that you were not responsible for what you were doing then." The boldness of her answer filed Wyvis with admiration. He knew that he manlike would have temporized and tried in vain to deny the truth, it was far wiser for Janetta to acknowledge and explain the facts. Mrs. Brand pressed the girl's hand and looked fearfully in her face.
These wanderings had been begun with the laudable object of weaning Margaret's heart away from Wyvis Brand, but they had been continued long after Margaret's errant fancy had been chided back to its wonted resting place.
But I am older perhaps I can't feel exactly in that way about her now." "You talk as if you were a sexagenarian," said Wyvis, exploding into genial laughter. He looked suddenly brighter and younger, as if his outburst of emotion had wonderfully relieved him. "I am much older than you, and yet I see her in the same light. What else is there to say about her?
Wyvis had faults who knew them better than Janetta, who had studied his character with great and loving care? but they were nor of the same kind.
Oh, she may be capable of anything," said Wyvis, "but she does not do the things that she is capable of doing." "At any rate she is very kind to me now. She wrote to me a few days ago, and told me that she was sorry for our past misunderstanding. And she asked me to go and stay with her when she was married to Lord Southbourne and had a house of her own."
He was only just in time to find Wyvis at his hotel, for he had taken his passage to America, and was going to start almost immediately. But there was time at least for a very energetic discussion between the two young men. "If you think," said Cuthbert, hotly, "that I'm going to take your place, you are very much mistaken." "It is not my place. It has been mine only by fraud." "Not a bit of it.
The little that she knew of his history had touched her. She constructed a great deal from the few facts or fancies that had been given to her, and the result was sufficiently unlike the real man to be recognizable by nobody but Margaret herself. It has already been said that the Adair property and that of Wyvis Brand lay side by side.
Meantime I thought Nina looked pale; certainly the little jeweled white hand nearest to me shook slightly. "Are you afraid of this noble animal, madame?" I asked, watching her closely. She laughed, a little forcedly. "Oh, no! But Wyvis is usually so shy with strangers, and I never saw him greet any one so rapturously except my late husband. It is really very odd!"
Wyvis she loved, or thought she loved; Wyvis she could accept; but Wyvis' mother for her own, coupled with exclusion from the home where she had lived so many smooth and tranquil years, exclusion also from the society in which she had been taught that it was her right to take a distinguished place this was too much. Her dreams fell from her like a garment.
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