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Orton Beg replied, and then she waited, mastering the nervous tremor into which the shock of Evadne's sudden appearance had thrown her with admirable self-control. And here again the family likeness between aunt and niece was curiously apparent. Both masked their agitation because both by temperament were shy, and ashamed to show strong feeling.
"In this age, when women claim a surplusage of all the brain power bestowed upon the race! What will you do when you have to attend to business?" "Business," echoed Evadne, "I have never thought about it, Uncle Lawrence." "No turn for dollars and cents, eh? Did your father never consult you about his affairs?" Evadne's lip quivered.
But there was nothing in Evadne's manner indicative of the former influence; and as to the latter, the only use she ever made of a wineglass was to put her gloves in it. As I gathered up the reins to drive my dogcart home that afternoon I was conscious of an impression on my mind as of a yawn.
Was this to be Evadne's case? Alas! alas! But, still, doctors sometimes mistake the symptoms, and find happily that they have erred when they arrived at an unfavourable diagnosis. So I said to myself, but the assurance in no way affected the despair which had settled upon my heart, and was crushing it. Late that night I was sitting alone in my study.
But for that, they would not have seen each other again; and I had the pleasure of learning eventually that the perfect understanding which they arrived at during the few hours they spent together on that occasion, afterward became one of the most comforting recollections of Evadne's life "A hallowed memory," as she herself expressed it, "such as it is very good for us to cherish.
"I should never think of associating Evadne's name with disgrace," she said. "What do you mean, Isabelle?" "Mamma says this nursing fad of hers upset Papa completely. He said the Hildreth honor had better not be mentioned any more." "Well, I don't know. It seems to me she is of a good deal more value to him now than the Hildreth honor. Dr. Russe says she is one of the best nurses he ever saw.
"Read that!" he exclaimed, slapping Evadne's letter with his whip, and then throwing it down on the table before her rudely: "Read that, and tell me what you think of your daughter now!" Mrs.
Louis Hildreth closed his thin fingers over Evadne's ring with a long drawn sigh. He was beginning to realize that a hand, without a heart, is an empty thing. Long after she had left him he lay motionless. This knowledge which had come to him so suddenly had a bitter taste.
It will teach him the truth of the adage that 'there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, and in the future he will not be so foolish as to look forward to anything." Evadne's lips quivered. "You are cruel," she said, "to shut out the sunlight from a poor little crippled child!" "My dear coz, I give you my word of honor, I am sorry. But there is nothing to make a fuss about.
Evadne's constancy, fortitude, even her ill-fated and ill-regulated love, were matter of admiration and pity; especially when, from the detail of the events of the nineteenth of October, it was apparent that she preferred suffering and death to any in her eyes degrading application for the pity and assistance of her lover. Her subsequent conduct did not diminish this interest.
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