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Hugh Flaxman's fair complexion flushed a little. He got up to go. He is one of the most extraordinarily handsome persons I ever saw, he remarked as he buttoned up his coat. 'Don't you think so? 'Yes, said Agnes dubiously, 'if he didn't stoop, and if he didn't in general look half-asleep.
Winthrop thinks most of those things the ancestry and wealth." "We must not sit in judgment on any one's thoughts, and we must not take any man's gauge of character in the abstract as the correct one; only take the word of God." I went out into the sunshine to think over Mrs. Flaxman's little lecture; a good deal comforted with the reflection that Mrs.
Faint sounds came from the barn, and he looked that way. The others shambled after with a conscience-stricken air: the whole procession was not unlike Flaxman's group of the suitors tottering on towards the infernal regions under the conduct of Mercury. The gnarled shapes passed into the village, Troy, their leader, entering the farmhouse.
Of one thing, however, a conscientious historian may be sure, namely, that Agnes succeeded in knowing as much as she wanted to know. Mrs. Leyburn was a little puzzled by the erratic lines of Mr. Flaxman's journeys. It was, as she said, curious that a man should start on a tour through the Lakes from Long Whindale. But she took everything naively as it came, and as she was told.
During that time Rose Leyburn had been, to Flaxman's mind, enchantingly dependent on him. He had played his part so well, and the beautiful high-spirited child had suited herself so naively to his acting!
Each moment as it passed built up one of those watersheds of life from which henceforward the rivers flow broadening to undreamt-of seas. When Catharine returned, Meynell was hat in hand for departure. There was no more expression of feeling or reference to grave affairs. They stood a few moments chatting about ordinary things. Incidentally Hugh Flaxman's loss of the two gold coins was mentioned.
It was with an effort for he knew it would be a shock to her that he began to talk to her about the breakfast-party at Mr. Flaxman's, and his talk with Murray Edwardes. But he had made it a rule with himself to tell her everything that he was doing or meant to do. She would not let him tell her what he was thinking. But as much openness as there could be between them, there should be.
Last autumn I left it and resigned my orders because I could no longer accept the creed of the English Church. Unconsciously the thin dignified figure drew itself up, the voice took a certain dryness. All this was distasteful, but the orator's instinct was imperious. As he spoke about a score of pipes which had till now been active in Flaxman's neighbourhood went down.
"I would rather be so remembered," I said with eager longing, "than to be a Cleopatra or Helen of Troy." "In what way is that?" Mr. Winthrop asked, as he stood looking down at me from behind Mrs. Flaxman's chair. I sprang to my feet in consternation. "We did not hear you enter," I faltered, very much ashamed to be found in such a childish attitude.
Under the influence of one of the natural reactions that wait on illness, the girl's tone was cheerful, and Flaxman's spirits rose. They talked of the splendor of the day, the discomforts of the steamer, the picturesqueness of the landing of anything and everything but the hidden something which was responsible for the dancing brightness in his eyes, the occasional swift veiling of her own.
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