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Hild in his arms. Close behind him moved his wife, grave and pale; the
boy's face was turned over Ambient's shoulder, towards his mother. We
got up to receive the group, and as they came near us Dolcino turned
round. I caught, on his enchanting little countenance, a smile of
recognition, and for the moment would have been quite content with it.
Miss Ambient, however, received another impression, and I make haste to
say that her quick sensibility, in which there was something maternal,
argues that, in spite of her affectations, there was a strain of
kindness in her. "It won't do at all--it won't do at all," she said to
me under her breath. "I shall speak to Mark about the doctor." The child
was rather white, but the main difference I saw in him was that he was
even more beautiful than the day before. He had been dressed in his
festal garments,--a velvet suit and a crimson sash,--and he looked like
a little invalid prince, too young to know condescension, and smiling
familiarly on his subjects. "Put him down, Mark, he's not comfortable,"
Mrs. Ambient said. "Should you like to stand on your feet, my boy?" his
father asked. "Oh, yes; I 'm remarkably well," said the child. Mark
placed him on the ground; he had shining, pointed slippers, with
enormous bows. "Are you happy now, Mr. Ambient?" "Oh, yes, I am
particularly happy," Dolcino replied. The words were scarcely out of his
mouth when his mother caught him up, and in a moment, holding him on her
knees, she took her place on the bench where Miss Ambient and I had been
sitting. This young lady said something to her brother, in consequence
of which the two wandered away into the garden together. I remained with
Mrs. Ambient; but as a servant had brought out a couple of chairs I was
not obliged to seat myself beside her. Our conversation was not
animated, and I, for my part, felt there would be a kind of hypocrisy in
my trying to make myself agreeable to Mrs. Ambient I didn't dislike
her--I rather admired her; but I was aware that I differed from her
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