What have I done to be treated with this heartless inconsistency?
I am consistent myself--I only want to stop at home--and (what's the
consequence?) you're all against me!' In that manner he grumbled his way
down the steps, and so I saw the last of him. This was all that passed
between us. If he gives you any other account of it, what he says will
be false. He made no attempt to return. An hour afterward his father
came alone to say good-by. He saw Miss Garth and me, but not Magdalen;
and he told us he would take the necessary measures, with your
assistance, for having his son properly looked after in London, and seen
safely on board the vessel when the time came. It was a short visit, and
a sad leave-taking. Even Mr. Clare was sorry, though he tried hard to
hide it.
"We had barely two hours, after Mr. Clare had left us, before it would
be time to go. I went back to Magdalen, and found her quieter and
better, though terribly pale and exhausted, and oppressed, as I fancied,
by thoughts which she could not prevail on herself to communicate.
She would tell me nothing then--she has told me nothing since--of what
passed between herself and Francis Clare.
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