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BEFORE ter tion you overo e intervie Gleggs. For a day and a nigurned over in less agitation all t Lucy old intervieill ion. y of altering ion to Maggie and removing at least one obstacle beted all ion of a c ardour, and ician. ed. c um, and look at my nechem now.
`Im getting terribly stiff in ts, Pairs of yours, said akem, looking kindly at come along, then.
`t it, Pal lig from t tering ting room. o remind oo t ion. o reproachere, if she came back again from her grave.
`Come, come, ting ing o take a general vie a famous s see t your t as good as t London artists - ws Leyburn gave so much money for.
Ped ing-stool, and aken a lead pencil in rong marks to counteract tremulousness. c up, and uredly dures muc of genuine taste for landscape ill opped before a stand on ures were placed - one mucher case.
`Bless me! led by a sudden transition from landscape to portrait. `I t youd left off figures. hese?
`tness, `at different ages.
`And w person? said akem, sure.
`Miss tulliver. t s sc Kings Lorton: t quite so good a likeness of w she was when I came from abroad.
akem turned round fiercely, ting as if o strike t daring feebleness from tool. But o t o rouser-pockets, still looking angrily at return t sat quietly c of his pencil.
`And do you mean to say, t you ance last, vain effort as it desires to inflict into ones, since blows are forbidden.
`Yes: I sa deal of often, in t t - te Mill. I love of tle girl.
`Go on, sir! - And you his while?
`No. I never told ill just before ed, and s to see me again or to correspond sure t s to marry me. But if s - if she did love me well enough - I should marry her.
`And turn you make me for all tting o tremble under an enraged sense of impotence before Pration of purpose.
`No, fat time. `I dont regard it as a return. You fato me - but I t it e e lot of - not t it you expected me to pay by sacrificing all my co satisfy feelings of yours which I can never share.
`I t sons erly. `t mad brute, . And t as insolent: only in a cooler ake care. But you seem to ed t of me: you can marry tomorroy - you can go your her.
akem rose and o sometead of leaving t. Po reply, and han ever.
`No: I cant marry Miss tulliver, even if so maintain up to no profession. I cant offer y as y.
`Ao me, doubtless, said akem, still bitterly, t er of a century. o the chair again.
`I expected all ten ansill angrier - if it isfaction to you to annie t of everytage over most fately deprive me of t h having.
P .
`You kno isfaction you of gratifying a ridiculous rancour hy only of wandering savages.
`Ridiculous rancour! akem burst out. ` do you mean? Damn it! is a man to be ? Besides, t cold, proud devil of a son, as I know - if he expense.
`I dont mean your resentment toom, `t you so keep it. I mean your extending ty to a oo muco sered into the family quarrels.
` does t signify? e dont ask s altogeto you - to tullivers daughter.
For t time in t some of rol, and coloured h anger.
`Miss tulliver, ter incisiveness, ` anyt vulgar folly can suppose to belong to tever else ted for irreproacegrity. All St Oggs, I fancy, han my equal.
akem darted a glance of fierce question at P looking at ain penitent consciousness on, in a fes, as if in amplification of words:
`Find a single person in St Oggs ell you t a beautiful creature like iable object like me.
`Not sting everyt of resentful pride, cs all stuff about an accidental deformity, wtaco a man.
`But girls are not apt to get attacances, said Philip.
`ell, tally - trying to recover ion. `If s care for you, you migrouble of talking to me about rouble of refusing my consent to o happen.
akem strode to t looking round again, banged it after him.
P confidence t imately ive as a to go doo dinner - meet day. It in ten as early as seven; and as it ernoon no for a long ramble, t return until of t into a boat, and doo a favourite village, e enougo return. of quarrel test just begun, mig mig time? allo involuntary question meant. But if ion of Maggies accepted, ackno up to ing room again and tigue into tly at ter and rock t ill o a doze in wening, green, slimy cerfall, and ill seemed a sudden, awful crash.
It s, for tible c. It o vacate the chair for him, he said,
`Sit still. Id rat.
alked up and doanding opposite P in , inuing a conversation t been broken off,
`But to you in t way.
P ing rapidly, and a transient flus quite easy to speak at once.
`S Kings Lorton, o sit deal in of me as a friend of a long me.
`ell, but you made love to last. did saking to .
`Shen.
`Confound it, t else do you ? Is s?
`Satingly. `Im afraid s s. Im afraid our long separation, and t events must always divide us may have made a difference.
`But soo her since you came back?
`Yes, at Mr Deanes. But I couldnt reneo one obstacle - if you o ter-in-law.
akem a little wure.
`S t of last. `I saher dangerous and unmanageable, eh?
`Sender and affectionate - and so simple - tty contrivances other women have.
`A your motler - s broies Id no likeness of her.
`t you be glad for me to of o sen my life for me? tie so strong to you as t y years ago wig ever since.
`Ay, P kno of me, said akem, to keep toget am I to do? You must come doairs and tell me. Am I to go and call on this dark-eyed damsel?
talk freely to ire relation ullivers - of to get to ts transfer to Guest amp; Co. as an intermediate step. ure noo be persuasive and urgent, and ed on.
`I dont care about t last of angry compliance. `Ive ely about t ts, ts all. But t ask me. I s transactions ulliver. If you like to s Ive no sauce t will make him go down.
I leave you to imagine t to Mr Deane t day to say t Mr akem o open tiations, and Lucys pretty triumpo proved business abilities. Mr Deane ed t to to men of Mr Deanes stamp, raneous to t goes on among tterflies - until it can be so ary affairs. And in to be entirely propitious.