It looked
very patient, she thought, and a little self-satisfied. It's all
very well to read him a lesson, and teach him obedience; but you've gone far
enough for that. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. She feared he might take her tears as a sign of
weakness. "
Sir Rowland bit his lips to repress the answer that rose to them. ’
The lady uttered a scornful sound. "Strange!" observed the Master; "I thought he'd been at my elbow all this time. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. "I've got a proposition to make," said O'Higgins.
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