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Updated: June 22, 2025
The sending of the letter has been followed by young Armadale's sudden departure for London in the face of an appointment which he had with me for to-morrow morning. This looks serious. The girl is evidently bold enough to make a fight of it for the position of Mrs. Armadale of Thorpe Ambrose, and she has found out some way of getting her mother to help her.
Step the third, and last, is my appearance, after the announcement of Armadale's death has reached this neighborhood, in the character of Armadale's widow, with my marriage certificate in my hand to prove my claim. It is as clear as the sun at noonday. "To think of my having put all this in my Diary! "What is it daunts me? The dread of obstacles? The fear of discovery? "Where are the obstacles?
The weak side of every man is the woman's side of him. We have only to discover the woman's side of Mr. Armadale to tickle him on it gently and to lead him our way with a silken string. I observe here, pursued the doctor, opening Armadale's letter, 'a reference to a certain young lady, which looks promising. Where is the note that Mr. Armadale speaks of as addressed to Miss Milroy?
"He gave me an angry look, and made me an angry bow, and, turning sharply, left the room. "I saw the people in the street again! I saw the calm sea, and the masts of the shipping in the harbor where the yacht lay! I could think, I could breathe freely once more! The words that saved me from Manuel the words that might be Armadale's sentence of death had been spoken.
"I went into the study, and found him sitting close by the fire with his head down and his hands on his knees. On the table near him, beside Armadale's letter and my note, I saw, in the little circle of light thrown by the reading-lamp, an open railway guide. Was he meditating flight?
I firmly believe that the name was the first thing that struck him; and when he heard that, your voice certainly and your figure perhaps, came back to his memory. 'And what if it did? you may say. Think again, Lydia, and tell me whether the parson of the place where Mrs. Armadale lived was not likely to be Mrs. Armadale's friend?
The report will reach Miss Milroy's ears; she will insist on Armadale's justifying himself; and Armadale will end in satisfying her of his innocence by making another proposal. This will be quite likely to hasten matters between them; at least it would with me.
Pedgift informed me of all at least I think I may say so of all the circumstances. I am to instruct, or perhaps, I ought to say to advise " "No, Mr. Bashwood; the first word was the best word of the two. I am quite ignorant of the duties which Mr. Armadale's kindness has induced him to intrust to me.
But a little reflection has convinced me that they are too important to be passed over. Looked at from my point of view, they mean this that Armadale's own act is now cutting him off from all communication with Thorpe Ambrose, even by letter. He is as good as dead already to everybody he leaves behind him.
Armadale, while acknowledging that he had once admired you, added that circumstances had since satisfied him of 'his folly. I quote his own expression; it made me quite tremble with indignation. If I may be permitted to say so, the man who admires Miss Gwilt lives in Paradise. Respect, if nothing else, ought to have closed Mr. Armadale's lips.
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