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The truth about Lady Anna and her engagement was generally known in a misty, hazy, half-truthful manner. That she was engaged to marry Daniel Thwaite, who was now becoming famous and the cause of a greatly increased business in Wigmore Street, was certain. It was certain also that the Earl had desired to marry her.
Lady Anna repeated to the Countess all that she had said to Lord Lovel, and swore to her mother with the Bible in hand that if ever she became the wife of any man she would be the wife of Daniel Thwaite. Then the Countess with great violence knocked the book out of her daughter's grasp, and it was thrown to the other side of the room. "If this is to go on," said the Countess, "one of us must die."
"Still, I may return to-morrow before you set out. Mrs. Forsyth will be pleased if she hears you have made these Canadian strangers comfortable, Musker, and I think you may tell them why Mr. Geoffrey left England. May I ask your names?" Helen told her, and after Miss Thwaite departed, Musker began the story of Thurston's Folly. It had grown quite dark. Driving rain lashed the windows.
Now I've just thought of somethin'," putting her hands on her hips. "What?" said Mary eagerly. "In the shop at Thwaite they sell packages o' flower-seeds for a penny each, and our Dickon he knows which is th' prettiest ones an' how to make 'em grow. He walks over to Thwaite many a day just for th' fun of it. Does tha' know how to print letters?" suddenly. "I know how to write," Mary answered.
Daniel Thwaite, intimating, I presume, that his permission would be necessary to free you from your imaginary bond to him." "It would be necessary." "Very well. The Countess naturally felt an abhorrence at allowing you again to be in the presence of one so much beneath you, who had ventured to address you as he has done. It was a most natural feeling. But it has occurred to Mrs.
Once or twice the Countess expressed a hope that the money advanced by Thomas Thwaite might soon be repaid to him with much interest. Daniel would always treat the subject with a noble indifference. His father, he said, had never felt an hour's regret at having parted with his money. Should it, perchance, come back to him, he would take it, no doubt, with thanks.
Had he really loved her, had he meant to love her, he would hardly have been absent so long after her coming. She had been glad that he had been absent, so she assured herself, because there could never be any love between them. Daniel Thwaite had told her that the brotherly love which had been offered was false love, must be false, was no love at all.
Daniel Thwaite thought that in the present circumstances no further attempt would be made to constrain her actions. When a month had passed by a great many people knew how Mr. Daniel Thwaite had come by the wound in his back, but nobody knew it "officially." There is a wide difference in the qualities of knowledge regarding such matters.
It is quite out of the question that she should in any event become your wife. Even had she power to do it " "She has the power." "Practically she has no such power, Mr. Thwaite. A young person such as Lady Anna Lovel is and must be under the control of her natural guardian. She is so altogether.
But I tell you this, Anna; that what evil a husband can do, even let him be evil-minded as was your father, is nothing, nothing, nothing to the cruelty of a cruel child. Go now, Mr. Thwaite; if you please. If you will return at the same hour to-morrow she shall speak with you alone. And then she must do as she pleases." "Anna, I will come again to-morrow," said the tailor.
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