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e hair of his hea
E same with all your friends.
She, however, by her tone, led me to think that she sees you as you are, more
than in what you do. They are now in
Wales. They will be in town after Easter. Then you must expect that her feeling
for you will be tried, unless but
you will! You will let me speak to her, Nevil. My position allows me certain
liberties I was previously debarred from. You have not been so very tender to
your Cecilia that you can afford to give her fresh reasons for sorrowful
perplexity. And why should
you stand
to be blackened by scandalmongers when a few words of mine will prove that
instead of weak you have been strong,
instead of libertine blameless? I am
not using fine phrases: I would not. I would be as thoughtful of you as if you
were present. And for her sake, I repeat,
the truth should be told to her. I have a lock of her hair.' 'Cecilia's?
Where?' said Beauchamp. 'It is at Steynham.' Rosamund primmed
her lips at
the success of her probing touch; but she was unaware of the chief reason for
his doting on those
fair locks, and how they coloured his imagination since the day of the drive
into Bevisham. 'Now leave me,
my dear Nevil,' she said. 'Lord Romfrey will soon be here, and it is as well
for the moment that you should not meet him, if it can be avoided.'
Beauchamp left her, like a man out-argued and overcom
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