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Come, Marian, don't say no; we have not had a game for a very long time." "Who is playing?" asked Marian. "Only Lionel and me; Johnny is out with Mrs. Lyddell Come, we want you very much indeed; there's a good girl." To Clara's astonishment and Lionel's admiration, Marian complied; and though, of course, no great cricketer, her skill was sufficient to make her a prodigy in their eyes.
Lyddell lost his seat, and the boys were half mad, a hundred times more concerned than he was himself, while Marian moralized to herself on why it was allowed to happen that he should be set aside from public life, just when he would have begun to act on truly sound principles.
But you women go headlong at it, never see the rights of a thing. So, you won't? Well, it is your doing now!" "I can't see any end to it," said Marian, reflectingly. "If I thought you would make a resolution but you will be without money at all, and how are you to get through this half? O, Gerald! better write to Mr. Lyddell at once, and he will set you straight, and you can begin fresh."
These reflections were shortly after driven out of Caroline's head by a severe fit of toothache, which for three days made her unfit for anything but to sit by the fire reading idle books. Mrs. Lyddell proposed to take her to Salisbury to consult a dentist, and Lionel was supposed likewise to require inspection. Then, turning to Marian, Mrs.
Lyddell, for here at least was one benefit, that Walter seemed to have taken his proper place, and to be a real comfort and help to his father in a way he had never hoped for. "You've cheered up Clara, I hear in her voice," said Lionel. "O yes, we shall do very well."
Wortley and Agnes to go down the village and leave me alone. I have been very busy all the morning, and my head feels quite confused with thoughts!" "I am glad to have found you," said Edmund. "I have seen so little of you since I have been here." "Yes, you have been always with Mr. Lyddell. When does he go?" "To-morrow morning." "And you stay longer, I hope?"
Lyddell would not acknowledge the extent of the danger to herself, far less allow any hint of it to come to Caroline; and for this Marian was sorry, though she was sure that Caroline was conscious of it herself; but with Mrs. Lyddell always present, it was impossible to read any of the things that would have been the only support at such a time.
"Depend upon it," he said to Agnes, "it is she who has saved Miss Lyddell." "O, Edmund! do you think so? I wanted to have thought so, but she says it was the brother." "He took the steps which would not have become Marian, but Walter Lyddell could never have moved without his sister, and where could she have found the principle but in Marian?
All expressed wonder at not finding him a spoiled child; and this, though the praises gratified Marian greatly, rather offended her in her secret soul; and she wondered too that Caroline and Clara seemed disposed to make the very worst of their own little brothers, so as to set off Gerald's perfections by force of contrast. Mrs. Lyddell came in while they were still talking.
Faulkner, was coming to Oakworthy, to look at an estate, which was for sale in the neighbourhood. Mrs. Lyddell was pleased, and questioned her son about Mr. Faulkner's thousands a-year; then turning to Marian, said, "Surely, Marian, you know him; I heard of your meeting him and Lady Julia at Lady Marchmont's." "Yes," said Marian, with her face of rigidity.
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