altogether to have the character of a benefactor seemed to s anxiety an obstacle to himself a lover unless in some inconceivable way it could be revealed to him that s heart had accepted him beforehand and the agitation on his own account too was not small even a man who has practised himself in till his own has rendered him may at last be overtaken by the lover s awe � may tremble and show other signs of recovered sensibility no more in the range of his acquired talents than pins and needles after how much more may that timidity possess a man whose inward history has daniel cherished his instead of them and has kept all the language of passion fresh and rooted as the lovely about the spring as for her dear head lay on its pillow that night with its former suspicions thrown out of shape but still present like an ugly story which has been but not therefore dissipated all that she was certain of about seemed to prove that he had no such upon him as she had been allowing herself to believe in his whole manner as well as his words implied that there were no hidden bonds remaining to have any effect in his future but notwithstanding this plainly reasonable uneasiness still clung about s heart was not to blame but he had an importance for mrs which must give her some hold on him and the thought of any close confidence between them stirred the little biting snake that had long lain curled and harmless in s gentle bosom but did she this evening feel as completely as before that her jealousy was no less remote from any possibility for herself personally than if her human soul had been lodged in the body of a book viii � fruit and seed that had saved from the hardly something had happened and made a difference the soft warm rain of blossoms which had fallen just where she was � did it really come because she was there what spirit was there among the boughs vol iv chapter e tale al di e grave � va su e men fa male � u it was not many days after her mother s arrival that would consent to remain at her desire to get away from that of the sea helped to rally her strength and courage for what place though it were the of may not the inward sense turn into a circle of punishment where the flowers are no better than a crop of flame tongues burning the of our feet i shall never like to see the again said to her mother who thought that she quite understood her child s even in her of any express reference to her late husband mrs indeed though compelled formally to regard this time as one of severe calamity was book viii � fruit and seed enjoying her life more than she had ever done since her daughter s marriage it seemed that her darling was brought back to her not merely with all the old affection but with a conscious of her mother s such as we give to a possession that we have been on the brink of losing are you there mamma cried in the middle of the night a bed had been made for her mother in the same room with hers very much as she would have done in her early if she had felt frightened in lying awake yes dear can i do anything for you no thank you only i like so to know you are there do you mind my waking you this question would hardly have been s in her early i was not asleep darling it seemed not real that you were with me i wanted to make it real i can bear things if you are with me but you must not lie awake being anxious about me you must be happy now you must let me make you happy now at last � else what shall i do god bless you dear i have the best happiness i can have when you make much of me but the next night hearing that she was sigh daniel der ing and restless mrs said let me give you your sleeping draught no mamma thank you i don t want to sleep it would be so good for you to sleep more my darling don t say what would be good for me mamma answered you don t know what would be good for ma you and my uncle must not contradict me and tell me anything is good for me when i feel it is not good mrs was silent not wondering that the poor child was irritable presently said � i was always naughty to you mamma no dear no yes i was said it is because i was always wicked that i am miserable now she burst into sobs and cries the determination to be silent about all the facts of her married life and its close in these of excitement but dim lights of interpretation were breaking on the mother s mind through the information that came from sir to mr and book viii � fruit and seed with some from mr to herself the good natured while he was attending to all decent measures in relation to his nephew s death and the possible washing ashore of the body thought it the kindest thing he could do to use his present friendly intercourse with the as an opportunity for communicating to him in the way the purport of s will so as to save him the additional shock that would be in store for him if he carried his illusions all the way home perhaps sir would have been enough without that kind motive but he really felt the motive he broke the unpleasant news to the by degrees at 