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"Nevertheless Mary Dinnett told me. She is a very impulsive person so is Sabina; but in Sabina's case there is brain power to control impulse; in her mother's case there is none." "I'm much annoyed," declared Miss Ironsyde "not of course, that you should know, but that there should be talking. Please go home and tell them both to be quiet.
Then his mind was occupied with Sabina; but Sabina had wounded him to the quick, for it was clear she and her mother had shamelessly published the truth. Sabina, then, had courted ruin. She deserved it. He soon argued that the disaster of the day was Sabina's work, and he dismissed her with an oath from his thoughts.
From no considerations for Bridport, or Bridetown, did she urge his active intervention. For Abel's sake she begged it and was more insistent than before, when she heard of Sabina's indifference. "He's yours," she said. "You've been so splendidly patient. So do go on being patient, and the result will be a fine character and a reward for you.
It was nonsense; and if we say so in the public ear, none will dare to doubt it." Estelle talked to Raymond and endeavoured to interest him in Sabina's child. "Everybody who understands babies says that he's a lovely and perfect one," declared Estelle. "I hope you're going to look at him before you go away, because he's yours. And I believe he will be like you, some day.
Beautiful she could never have been, even in her youth, but her features were regular, and the prefect confessed to himself as he looked at Sabina's face, marked as it was with minute wrinkles and touched up with red and white, that the sculptor who a few years previously had been commissioned to represent her as 'Venus Victrix' might very well have given the goddess a certain amount of resemblance to the imperial model.
She would lack his company in the time to come, and her heart was too warm to endure this alienation without much pain. He suspected that if Sabina's future course of action satisfied Miss Ironsyde, she would be friendly to her and the child and, in time, possibly win some pleasure from them. Raymond proceeded with his business at Bridetown oblivious of persons and personalities.
For under the chestnuts strutted, like him in Struwelpeter, as though he were a very king of Ashantee, Sabina's black boy, who had taken to himself a scarlet umbrella, and a great cigar; while after him came, also like them in Struwelpeter, Caspar, bretzel in hand, and Ludwig with his hoop, and all the naughty boys of Bertrich town, hooting and singing in chorus, after the fashion of German children.
Verus it is true had left her content and full of hope Sabina's altered demeanor, it is true, had touched his heart he purposed to cling to her faithfully even after his formal adoption; but the light in his eye was not that of a proud and happy son, on the contrary it sparkled like that of a warrior who hopes to gain the victory. Notwithstanding the late hour, his wife had not yet gone to bed.
"Rather how the signs in the heavens have disposed you towards him." "I had but little time to consider what I saw. But at any rate the stars promise him a brilliant future." A gleam of joy shone in Sabina's eyes, but she forced herself to keep calm and asked, indifferently: "You admit that, and yet you can come to no decision?" "Then you want to hear the decisive word spoken at once, to-day?"
And though he had gone thus far at her entreaty, always recognising when with her the reasonableness of her wish, after she was gone, the cross seas of his own character, created a different impression and swept the pattern of Sabina's will away. For a time the intrigue of meeting her, the planning and the plotting amused him.
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