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But then, as I always say, what else could you expect on a bit of Yorkshire moor in winter? Is he going to paint anything here? Now, if he'd do me a bit of the bay, with Vesuvius smoking." "That would be something like!" assented Mrs. Bradshaw. When the ladies had left the dining-room, Mr. Bradshaw, over his cigarette, reverted to the subject of Cecily.
"Doing NOW! It's ALL the time. He just worries me to death," returned Cecily angrily. "He keeps writing me letters and putting them in my desk or in my reader. I never answer one of them, but he keeps on. And in the last one, mind you, he said he'd do something desperate right off if I wouldn't promise to marry him when we grew up."
'I wish you would tell me why you laugh, mamma, quoth she; 'you laugh so often. We had not to wait after all for my good offices of the next morning. Cecily came down at ten o'clock that night quite happy and excited; she had been talking to a bishop, such a dear bishop.
All the thanks he got was a furious look from Felicity, but Peg had not heard him and now she turned her attention to Cecily. "You look delicate. I daresay you'll never live to grow up." Cecily's lip trembled and Dan's face turned crimson. "Shut up," he said to Peg. "You've no business to say such things to people." I think my jaw dropped. I know Peter's and Felix's did. Felicity broke in wildly.
When they had reached the neighbourhood of Regent's Park, he asked permission to stop the cab and take his leave; Cecily acquiesced. From the pavement he shook hands with her, seeing her face but dimly by the lamplight; she said only "Thank you," and the cab bore her away.
"Of course not," returned Aunt Viney; "because all proper Spanish young ladies are shut up behind their grilles at night. You don't see THEM traipsing over the plain in the darkness, WITH or WITHOUT cavaliers! Why, Don Rafael would lock one of HIS sisters up in a convent and consider her disgraced forever, if he heard of it." Dick felt his cheeks burning; Cecily slightly paled.
'See there, Dolly, said Philip, in a warning voice, 'that is the way you'll be served if you do not mend your ways. 'But I thought, said Annora gravely, 'that people were married once for all, and it could not be undone. 'So said Aunt Cecily, but my Lord was proving to her out of all law that a contract between such a couple of babes went for nought, said Berenger.
Reuben seemed to draw aside for Cecily, but she saw his hand extended towards her it held a spray of maidenhair that he had just gathered. She took it, or would have taken it, but her hand was closed in his. "I have stayed only to see you again," came panting from his lips. "I could not go till I had seen you again!"
His stepfather almost carried him across the room, and laid him on his bed, where he turned away from the light and shut his eyes; but the knot of ribbon and the pin-pricked word was still in his hand, and his mother longed to take away the token of this false love, as she believed it. The great clock struck the hour for her to go. 'Leave him quiet, said Cecily, gently; 'he can bear no more now.
He had come simply to meet Cecily; there was the long and short of it. It was a weakness, such as any man may be guilty of, particularly any artist who groans in lifelong solitude. Let it he recognized; let it be flung savagely into the past, like so many others encountered and overcome on his course. The other day, when it was rainy and sunless, he had seemed all at once to find his freedom.
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