’
‘Did no one know, then?’
‘No, for the vicomte, we learned later, wrote to General Lord Charvill in
pursuit of his sister. “I suppose delusions are not
uncommon to patients in his condition. Accidentally raising his eyes,
he saw that he was perceived by the family from Dollis Hill, and that he was an
object of the deepest interest to them. Then we find out. . “Did you ever see women so weary-looking
and so dowdy? They do not talk. Presently. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. "When you're
older, you'll know that secrets of importance are not disclosed gratuitously. I shall want you. The world isn't real yet; she
hasn't comparisons by which to govern her acts. She felt that there was a hidden meaning under his
words. In the discussion there was the oddest mixture of things that were personal and
petty with an idealist devotion that was fine beyond dispute. On taxing his recollection, the whole circumstance
rushed to mind with painful distinctness.
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