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Granger by her side, offering his arm in his stately way when the procession began to file off to the dining-room, oblivious of the claims which my lady's matronly guests might have upon him. Throughout that evening Mr. Granger was more or less by Clarissa's side. She even tried to lure him away on some pretence or other; but this was vain.
Mysie, having this warning before her eyes, and being doubtful of Clarissa's surgical abilities, concluded to postpone her researches, and proposed to her companion to fill the basket with shells and pebbles from the beach, to which cowardly proposition Clarissa yielded but a reluctant consent. The next day, however, Mr.
"Alack!" sighed the pretty maid to herself, as she contemplated the white satin, "I will not even raise the paper which contains Clarissa's present, for both she and Gulian have set their hearts upon my wearing it on New Year's day, so 't is useless to fill my breast with discontent when I have so good a gown as this to wear to-night.
Again the tell-tale crimson flushed Clarissa's face. The memory of that September evening at Mill Cottage flashed across her mind, and her father's denunciation of George Fairfax and his race. "Your father would be wise enough to defend his child, I imagine," replied Austin, "although he is not a person whose conduct I would pretend to answer for.
Brobson was sitting by the fire, making-believe to be busy at needlework, with the under-nurse in attendance a buxom damsel, whose elbows rested on the table as she conversed with her superior. Both looked up in some slight confusion at Clarissa's entrance. They had been talking about her, she thought, but with a supreme indifference.
"Well," she began, when all were disposed to their satisfaction, "it all happened in my country, ye know. 'Twas 'bout ten years ago now, I guess or rather then I mean it will be " Clarissa's wondering eyes caught the speaker's attention and she coughed. "Never mind when 'twas," she went on. "Ye see, things are very different here time as well's the rest.
Would to Heaven, that I had stood it, however! then if I had afterwards done, what now I have been prevailed upon, or perhaps foolishly frightened to do, I should not have been stung so much by inward reproach as now I am: and this would have been a great evil avoided. You know, my dear, that your Clarissa's mind was ever above justifying her own failings by those of others.
Madame Recamier must have been something like that, I should fancy a woman who could attract the eyes of all the people in the great court of the Luxembourg, and divide public attention with Napoleon." Mr. Granger did not seem interested in the rather abstract question of Clarissa's possible likeness to Madame Recamier.
Something in his smile, and a certain significance in his tone, let in a sudden light upon Clarissa's mind. "I am afraid I am asking very foolish questions," she said. "You are Mr. Fairfax?" "Yes, I am George Fairfax. I forgot that I had omitted to you my name that night." "And I had no idea that I was speaking to Mr. Fairfax. You were not expected till quite late this evening."
He seems over head and ears in love, however, and it will be Clarissa's own fault if she doesn't do what she likes with him. Heaven grant she may prove reasonable! Most women would be enchanted with such an opportunity, but with a raw school-girl there is no knowing. And that fellow Fairfax's influence may work against us, in spite of her protestations last night." This was the gist of Mr.
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