“To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as regards his relations—with some other person. When he found himself thinking about it, it upset him so that he at once resorted to distraction. And he could not return this love. “Please forgive me coming up, Miss Pellissier, but you have not been down to dinner for three nights, and—Brendon and I—we were afraid that you might be unwell. “Serves you right if I’d cracked your skull. Because here was the haven for which she had been blindly groping: the positive abolition of all her father's rights in her—the right to drag her back. "I wish merely to come out of this bargain honourably. “I didn’t know you objected to him, daddy. "Hold!" cried Kneebone, flinging down the packets; "they are nothing to me. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought, would have made. ‘Brung the lantern, I did, and opened the door again in case you was ready. . “Read this, John. Somewhere, where we can talk without interruption. " There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the inclination to confess.
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