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 not specially invited in to see the mistress. He said nothing more to
Clara about her friends, but he thought of the matter more than once, as
he was going about the place, and became aware that he would like to
ascertain whether there was a mystery, and if so, what was its nature.
He knew that he did not like Mrs Askerton, and he felt also that Mrs
Askerton did not like him. This was, as he thought, unfortunate; for
might it not be the case, that in the one matter which was to him of so
much importance, Mrs Askerton might have considerable influence over
Clara? During these days nothing special was said between him and Clara.
The last evening passed over without anything to brighten it or to make
it memorable. Mr Amedroz, in his passive, but gently querulous way, was
sorry that Belton was going to leave him, as his cousin had been the
creation of some new excitement for him, but he said nothing on the
subject; and when the time for going to bed had come, he bade his guest
farewell with some languid allusion to the pleasure which he would have
in seeing him again at Christmas. Belton was to start very early in the
morning before six, and of course he was prepared to take leave also of
Clara. But she told him very gently, so gently that her father did not
hear it, that she would be up to give him a cup of coffee before he
went. 'Oh no,' he said. 'But I shall. I won't have you go without seeing
you out of the door.' And on the following morning she was up before
him. She hardly understood, herself, why she was doing this. She knew
that it should be her object to avoid any further special conversation
on that subject which they discussed up among the rocks. She knew that
she could give him no comfort, and that he could give none to her. It
would seem that he was willing to let the remembrance of the scene pass
away, so that it should be as though it had never been; and surely it
was not for her to disturb so salutary an arrangement! But yet she was
up to bid him Godspeed as he went. She could not bear,--so she excused
the matter to herself,--she could not bear to think that he should
regard her as ungrateful. She knew all that he had done for them. She
had perceived that the taking of the land, the building of the sheds, th