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Updated: June 1, 2025
Catherine had been dropped out of his calculation as to Elsmere's future, at a very early stage. The following afternoon Robert, coming home from a round, found Catherine out, and a note awaiting him from the Hall. 'Can you and Mrs. Elsmere come in to tea? wrote the Squire. 'Madame de Netteville is here, and one or two others.
Still holding him, as it were, with menacing defiant eyes, she moved aside, she waved her hand with a contemptuous gesture of dismissal. He bowed, passed her, and the door shut. For nearly an hour afterwards Elsmere wandered blindly and aimlessly through the darkness and silence of the park.
Elsmere, that you don't know anything about me, though you won't mind, will you? though you're so kind to me, and I do like you so. But you can't know anything, can you, about girls like me?" And looking up from where she lay deep in the armchair, she turned half-mocking eyes on her companion.
After the ceremony of enrolment which I described to you yesterday the Council of the New Brotherhood was chosen by popular election, and Elsmere gave an address. Two-thirds of the council, I should think, are working-men, the rest of the upper class; Elsmere, of course, president. 'Since then the first religious service under the new constitution has been held.
Elsmere had received them, and had then retired to a little cottage of her own close by. She had of course already made the acquaintance of her daughter-in-law, for she had been the Thornburghs' guest for ten days before the marriage in September, and Catherine, moreover, had paid her a short visit earlier in the summer.
She laid on her colours thickly, and Elsmere at once assumed extravagance. 'A saint, a beauty, and a wit all to yourselves in these wilds! he said, laughing. 'What luck! But what on earth brought them here a widow and three daughters from the south? It was an odd settlement surely, though you have one of the loveliest valleys and the purest airs in England. 'Oh, as to lovely valleys, said Mrs.
She had always the sort of manner that provoked people one moment and charmed them the next. And, to judge by my few words with her just now, I should say she had developed it finely. Well, now, Mr. Elsmere, who is going to take care of her? 'I suppose we shall all have a try at it, Lady Charlotte. 'Her mother doesn't look to me a person of nerve enough, said Lady Charlotte coolly.
In this crowded world a man has no business to walk about with his eyes always on the stars. His stumbles may have too many consequences. A harsh but a salutary truth! If Elsmere needed it, it was bitterly taught him during a terrible half-hour.
The 'following morning was gloomy but fine, and after breakfast the vicar and Elsmere started off.
'I thought they would have done for me before any one could hear, and that then he would kill himself as his father did. Again he hung over the figure on the bed his own withered hand stroking that of the squire with a yearning affection. 'When was the last attack? asked Robert sadly. 'A month ago, sir, just after they got back. Ah, Mr. Elsmere, he suffered. And he's been so lonely.
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