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Saltram." To a correct view of this subject Adela Branston's eyes were not to be opened in any wise. She was wilfully, resolutely blind, clinging to the hope that this cruel neglect on John Saltram's part arose only from his delicacy of feeling, and tender care for her reputation.
"He is always praising you. I believe he cares more for you than anyone else in the world." "I have not many people to care for," answered John Saltram, "and Gilbert is a friend of long standing." A sentimental expression came over Mrs. Branston's girlish face, and she gave a little regretful sigh. "I am sorry you will not see my husband to-day," she said, after a brief pause.
The marriage between John Holbrook and Marian Nowell had taken place several months before Michael Branston's death, at a time when perhaps Adela Branston's admirer had begun to despair of her release. And then fate had gone against him, and Mrs. Branston's fortune lay at his feet when it was too late.
Is that such a common quality, I wonder? are there many so luckless as to love once and once only, and who, setting all their hopes upon one cast, lose all if that be fatal?" Gilbert told John Saltram of Mrs. Branston's offer, which he was as prompt to decline as Gilbert himself had been.
Saltram with a critical eye many times in the course of the evening, wondering what possible merit any sensible woman could perceive in such a man. But then, as Theobald Pallinson reflected, the misfortune is that so few women are sensible; and it was gradually becoming evident to him that Michael Branston's widow was amongst the most foolish of her sex. Mrs.
It was not to be supposed that Adela Branston's name could be omitted entirely from this confidential talk. "I have seen nothing and heard very little of her while I have been away," John Saltram said, in answer to a question of Gilbert's; "but I called in Cavendish-square this afternoon, and was fortunate enough to find her at home.
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