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They adore each other, and laugh at everything like a pair of children. They were immensely popular in New York last winter, when they visited Mina's people." The effect of the morning upon Lady Anstruthers was what Betty had hoped it might be. The curious drawing near of the two nations began to dawn upon her as a truth.
"But I don't believe," he said to himself, slowly smiling, "that I should ever have come to understand that or to to fulfil it unless I had what did the girl say? done the straight thing in the end, and come out of Blent. Well, old Blent, good-by!" He crumpled up Mina's letter, and flung it into the grate. The maid-servant opened the door. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir," she said.
I sat watching Mina's happy sleep, and I came as near to being happy myself as I suppose I shall ever be. As the evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun sinking lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to me. All at once Mina opened her eyes, and looking at me tenderly said, "Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour.
"Worse," said Cecily, "if you mean that then he might " "Yes, worse," moaned Mina. "It's hopeless every way. And I believe he's fond of you." A scornful smile was Cecily's only but sufficient answer. "And you love him!" Mina's sorrow made her forget all fear. She said in this moment what she had never before dared to say.
The mother could not refrain from calling in a neighbor who was passing by the open door, and the news of Mina's partial restoration spread through the building.
Cecily was leaning forward, her eyes were eager, and there was a bright touch of color on her cheeks; Harry leant back, looking at her, not at Blent. He wore a quiet smile; his air was very calm. He saw Mina and Neeld, and waved his hand to them. The fly stopped opposite the bridge. He jumped out and assisted Cecily to alight. In a moment she was in Mina's arms.
They placed them on their own curly locks, and danced the "Kringelkranz-Rosendanz," and in so doing broke Mina's favorite toy-jar. Just as the children entered the yard a little man came in at the gate. And this little man had a red face, and a very imposing red nose which he always held cocked up in the air.
And after all, both ladies agreed, it would have been hardly decent to turn the Gainsboroughs out on Monday, as it was well known the new lord had proposed. But the Gainsboroughs were not in Mina's thoughts just now. "Nothing is to be made public yet please remember this. But I want you to know that I have just written to Harry Tristram to say I will marry him.
"It's the gettin' out, Madame er Zabriska." He had taken a swift glance at Mina's card. Mina looked round. "Is it in this room they have the Councils?" she asked. "Cabinets? Don't know. Downstairs somewhere, I believe, anyhow." He smothered a yawn. "Queer thing, that about Tristram, you know. If everything was known, you know, I shouldn't wonder if a lot of other fellows found themselves "
He came up to her, holding out his hand. She drew back, shrinking from it. Laying her hands on the gate of the bridge, she seemed to set it as a fence between them. Her voice reached Mina's ears, low, yet as distinct as though she had been by her side, and full of a terrified alarm and a bitter reproach. "You here! Oh, you promised, you promised!" With a bound Mina's conscience awoke.
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