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Charmond, of whom he had heard so much; and without pausing longer to gaze at a carcass from which the spirit had flown, he bent his steps homeward. Later in the evening Fitzpiers was summoned to visit a cottage patient about two miles distant.
Ah! but I was not content with doing right, I wanted to do more!" "Don't raft yourself without good need, George," she replied. "I won't quite believe that things are so much amiss. I won't believe that Mrs. Charmond has encouraged him. Even supposing she has encouraged a great many, she can have no motive to do it now.
Charmond did not move more than to raise her eyes to him, and he came and stood by her. She glanced up at his face across her brows and forehead, and then he observed a blush creep slowly over her decidedly handsome cheeks. Her eyes, which had lingered upon him with an inquiring, conscious expression, were hastily withdrawn, and she mechanically applied the cigarette again to her lips.
He accordingly retreated to where he had been working before Grace came, and Grace's formidable rival approached her, each woman taking the other's measure as she came near. "Dear Mrs. Fitzpiers," said Felice Charmond, with some inward turmoil which stopped her speech. "I have not seen you for a long time."
Charmond's carriages, released from the obstruction up the lane, came bowling along, and the two girls turned to regard the spectacle. Mrs. Charmond did not see them, but there was sufficient light for them to discern her outline between the carriage windows. A noticeable feature in her tournure was a magnificent mass of braided locks.
"But I hope I sha'n't lose you yet. Come in to breakfast. What did you think of the inside of Hintock House the other day?" "I liked it much." "Different from friend Winterborne's?" She said nothing; but he who knew her was aware that she meant by her silence to reproach him with drawing cruel comparisons. "Mrs. Charmond has asked you to come again when, did you say?"
He would, after all, adopt the more rational course, and plead with Fitzpiers privately, as he had pleaded with Mrs. Charmond. He accordingly retreated as silently as he had come. Passing the door of the drawing-room anew, he fancied that he heard a noise within which was not the crackling of the fire.
Her father reasoned thereon. Immediately after his daughter's two indubitable successes with Mrs. Charmond the interview in the wood and a visit to the House she had attended Winterborne's party.
That was untrue it was said to deceive you. I could not do it without much pain; and, what is more dreadful, I cannot give him up even if I would of myself alone." "Why? Because you love him, you mean." Felice Charmond denoted assent by a movement. "I knew I was right!" said Grace, exaltedly. "But that should not deter you," she presently added, in a moral tone.
"One who has smiled where she has not loved and loved where she has not married. Before Mr. Charmond made her his wife she was a play-actress." "Hey? But how close you have kept all this, Giles! What besides?" "Mr. Charmond was a rich man, engaged in the iron trade in the north, twenty or thirty years older than she.
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