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Thorn's? you can't go alone?" "I will make Charlton take me," said Fleda, "or rather I will take him, if he will let me. Will you, Charlton? will you take care of me to Mrs. Decatur's to-morrow night?" "With the greatest pleasure, my dear coz, but I have another engagement in the course of the evening." "Oh that is nothing," said Fleda; "if you will only go with me, that is all I care for.
Gribble took to her bed for two days, and the doctor had a heart-to-heart talk with him on the doorstep. It was a matter of great annoyance to him that his wife still continued to attribute her ill-health to the smallness and darkness of the house; and the fact that there were only two of the houses in Charlton Grove left caused a marked depression of spirits. It was clear that she was fretting.
Jane flushed hesitated then met his glance frankly. "I WAS," said she. "I mean that I'm over it," said she. "What have you decided to do about me?" Charlton did not answer immediately. He eyed her narrowly an examination which she withstood well. Then he glanced away and seemed to be reflecting. Finally he came back to her question. Said he: "To give you a trial. To find out whether you'll do."
For here was Albert Charlton, bound by his vows to Helen Minorkey, with whom he had nothing in common, except in intellect, and already his sorrow was disclosing to him the shallowness of her nature, and the depth of his own; even now he found that she had no voice with which to answer his hungry cry for sympathy.
"What an inference is this! over me, then, do you conclude this woman had any power?" Here they stopt at the lodgings. Delvile handed both the ladies out. Cecilia, eager to avoid his importunities, and dreadfully disturbed, hastily past him, and ran up stairs; but Mrs Charlton refused not his arm, on which she lent till they reached the drawing-room.
"I have a very vague idea of the dignity implied in that expression of 'quartering arms, which comes so roundly out of your mouth, Charlton," said Fleda laughing. "No, I didn't know it. But in general I am apt to think that pride is a thing which reverses the usual rules of architecture, and builds highest on the narrowest foundations." "What do you mean?"
Cecilia, starting at this most unwelcome intelligence, would now have run into the chaise without hearing him proceed; but Mrs Charlton, who knew neither whom nor what he meant, involuntarily stopt, and Cecilia, whose arm she leant upon, was compelled to stay. Every one else eagerly desired to know who he was. "Why I'll tell you," said he, "how I found him out.
But Charlton was at the fiercely executive stage of his development, and such a man must act. And so he lingered about until Westcott kissed Katy and Katy kissed Westcott back again, and Westcott cried back from the gate, "Dood night! dood night, 'ittle girl! By-by! He! he! By George!" and passed out rattling the keys and coins in his pocket and singing: "O dear Miss Lucy Neal!" etc.
It was not till long afterward that he discovered the alliance between Whisky Jim and Isabel, and how Jim had gotten a friend on the Stillwater route to help him get them through. But Charlton wrote Isa, and told her how he had detected her, and thanked her cordially, asking her why she concealed her hand. She replied kindly, but with little allusion to the gifts, and they came no more.
It seemed an eternity before Charlton called to him to let go the rope. A new phase of his danger seared like a flame across the brain of Beaudry. He had dragged himself from a perpendicular position. As soon as he let loose of the rope he would begin to sink forward. This would reduce materially the time before his face would sink into the sand.
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