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'No, no, I am coming, he answered, hurrying towards her, and leading her out of the room; leaving poor Caterina to feel all the reaction of shame and self-reproach after her outburst of passion. 'Pray, what is likely to be the next scene in the drama between you and Miss Sarti? said Miss Assher to Captain Wybrow as soon as they were out on the gravel.
Let me introduce you to my friends, Father Benwell. Introducing is out of fashion, I know. But I am one of the few women who can resist the tyranny of fashion. I like introducing people. Sir John Drone Father Benwell. Father Benwell Doctor Wybrow. Ah, yes, you know the doctor by reputation? Shall I give you his character? Personally charming; professionally detestable.
'What unwarrantable feelings? said Caterina, letting her hands fall, and fixing her great dark eyes steadily on Miss Assher. 'It is quite unnecessary for me to say more. You must be conscious what I mean. Only summon a sense of duty to your aid. You are paining Captain Wybrow extremely by your want of self-control. 'Did he tell you I pained him? 'Yes, indeed, he did.
It was so far from probable that Anthony should love that pale insignificant little thing so highly probable that he should adore the beautiful Miss Assher. On the whole, it was rather gratifying that other women should be languishing for her handsome lover; he really was an exquisite creature. Poor Miss Sarti! Well, she would get over it. Captain Wybrow saw his advantage.
He had inflicted a great and unrepented injury on her, and now he assumed an air of benevolence towards her. This was a new outrage. His profession of goodwill was insolence. Caterina snatched away her hand and said indignantly, 'Leave me to myself, Captain Wybrow! I do not disturb you. 'Caterina, why will you be so violent so unjust to me? It is for you that I feel anxious.
'You must not have any wrong thoughts about Tina, he said at length. 'I must tell you now, for her sake, what nothing but this should ever have caused to pass my lips. Captain Wybrow won her affections by attentions which, in his position, he was bound not to show her. Before his marriage was talked of, he had behaved to her like a lover.
'Yes, do, my dear, said Lady Assher, 'and I will go and see if Sir Christopher is having his walk in the gallery. As soon as the door had closed behind the two ladies, Captain Wybrow, standing with his back to the fire, turned towards Caterina, and said in a tone of earnest remonstrance, 'My dear Caterina.
When people use us ill, we can hardly help having ill feeling towards them. But that second wrong is more excusable. I am more sinful than you, Tina; I have often had very bad feelings towards Captain Wybrow; and if he had provoked me as he did you, I should perhaps have done something more wicked. 'O, it was not so wrong in him; he didn't know how he hurt me.
Grief and resentment, retrospect and foreboding, vanished all life before and after melted away in the bliss of that moment, as Anthony pressed his lips to hers. Captain Wybrow thought, 'Poor little Tina! it would make her very happy to have me. But she is a mad little thing. At that moment a loud bell startled Caterina from her trance of bliss.
At length, towards the close of August, came the announcement that Captain Wybrow was an accepted lover, and after much complimentary and congratulatory correspondence between the two families, it was understood that in September Lady Assher and her daughter would pay a visit to Cheverel Manor, when Beatrice would make the acquaintance of her future relatives, and all needful arrangements could be discussed.
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