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Updated: June 28, 2025
Mrs, Frayling wrote a full account of Evadne's presentation at court to her sister, Mrs. Orton Beg who was wandering about Norway by herself at the time and concluded her description of the dear child's gown, very charming appearance, and dignified self-possession with some remarks about her character to the same effect as those which she had addressed to Lady Adeline.
The child had come down armed with an open penknife, with which to defend Angelica should they encounter any ogres or giants on the stairs, and in scrambling up the table he had managed to strike himself in the thigh with it, and had severed the femoral artery; but, with the curious shame which makes some children dislike to own that they are hurt, he had contrived to conceal the accident for a moment with his nightgown under cover of the flowers, and it was only Evadne's observant eye and presence of mind that had saved his life.
This was likely to be Evadne's case. Yet her mother had been right about her having a deeply religious disposition. The vicar in charge of the church on the cliff he of the musical voice, Mr. Borthwick by name became aware at once of Evadne's regular attendance.
And he listened to Evadne's merry laugh as she pelted Hans with cherries while Gretchen dreamed of the Fatherland under the trees by the brook, and wondered whether after all the men who had made it their aim to stifle every natural inclination, had learned the true secret of living as well as these happy souls who laid their cares down at the feet of their Father, and gave their lives into Christ's keeping day by day.
He was storming violently in the hall, with his face flushed crimson so the servants told us when all at once he stopped, and called "Evadne!" twice, as if in alarm; and Mrs. Colquhoun ran down from the drawing room; but before she could reach him he fell on the floor, and never spoke again. Much of my time during the next few months was devoted I to the consideration of Evadne's affairs.
When I had given him the details of Evadne's case, so far as I had gone into it, he asked me what my own theory was. "I feel sure it is the old story of these cases in women," I answered. "The natural bent has been thwarted to begin with."
Hope, hope, hope, hope, nothing, nothing but hope! We had arrived at last. No one about. Doors open, lights flaring, and a strange silence. Leaving the horse to do as he liked, I walked straight upstairs, and on the first landing I met Evadne's maid. "I hoped it was you, sir.
The vanity of the old gossip was raised by her commission, which, after all, she did not understand, since she had no suspicion, even now that Evadne's visitor was Lord Raymond. Perdita dreaded a fall from his horse, or some similar accident till the woman's answers woke other fears.
Acquiescence is as provoking as opposition to a man in that mood, and he chose to take offence at Evadne's evident anxiety to please him. "She makes quite a business of being agreeable to me," he' reflected while he was waiting for her to put her hat on.
In such ordinary everyday matters as the management of his estate, and his other duties as a county gentleman, and also in solid comprehension of the political situation of the period, he was by no means wanting; but his mind simply circled round and round this business of Evadne's like a helpless swimmer in a whirlpool, able to keep afloat, but with nothing to take hold of.
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