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"He means himself, Miss Clementina," struck in Grant's voice laughingly. "You're not listening, Miss Harkutt," said Rice with half-serious reproach. "Perhaps you know who it is?" But Miss Clementina's reply was simply a hurried recognition of her father's pale face that here suddenly confronted her with the opening door. "Why, it's father!"
In all this Odo discerned Maria Clementina's hand, and an instinctive resistance made him hang back upon his patron's proposal. Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence; and early the next spring he started for Naples. His first impulse had been to send Cantapresto back to the Duchess.
"The ladder does not touch the ground, but it will not be far to drop, should there be need." The window of Clementina's bedroom was next to that of the parlour and looked out in the same direction. Wogan fixed the rope-ladder securely to the foot of the bed and drew the bed close to the window. He left the lamp upon a chair and went back to the parlour and explained.
And he knows I neva could be very religious." It was in Miss Milray's heart to protest, "Clementina, I think you are one of the most religious persons I ever knew," but she forebore, because the praise seemed to her an invasion of Clementina's dignity. She merely said, "Well, I am glad he is one of those who grow more liberal as they grow older. That is a good sign for your happiness.
Clementina with all her generosity could not help being doubtful of a woman who could make a companion of such a man as Liftore a man to whom every individual particle of Clementina's nature seemed for itself to object. But she was not yet past befriending. Then she began to grow more curious about Malcolm. She had already much real knowledge of him, gathered both from himself and from Mr. Graham.
Milray easily possessed himself of the history of her life and of all its circumstances, and he said he would like to meet her father and make the acquaintance of a man whose mind, as Clementina interpreted it to him, he found so original. He authorized his wife to arrange with Mrs. Atwell for a monopoly of Clementina's time while he stayed at Middlemount, and neither he nor Mrs.
"I have enough to keep me, now, till I hear from other sources, with the means for returning home. I see no object in continuing here, under the circumstances." In the relief which she felt for him Clementina's heart throbbed with a pain which was all for herself. Why should she wait any longer either?
I made you a present of Clementina's second best hat for Christabel, and only yesterday I gave you that sweet bead ring you asked me for." These unanswerable arguments were lost upon Lucy, however. She snatched away the tiny frock, and both little girls sulked a while. "Lucy's real mean!" said Annie to herself. "She ought to give it to me, she knows she ought! Oh, dear, I want it awfully!
You shall see their exercises." This was certainly a new phase of Clementina's character. Yet why should she not assume the role of Lady Bountiful with the other functions of her new condition. "I should have thought Miss Harcourt would have found this rather difficult with her other social duties," he said, "and would have left it to her married sister."
Malcolm, so far as human companionship went, found it dull, for Lady Clementina's groom regarded him with the contempt of superior age, the most contemptible contempt of all, seeing years are not the wisdom they ought to bring, and the first sign of that is modesty.
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