All the Year Round, Vol. 19

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Excerpt from All the Year Round, Vol. 19: A Weekly Journal, From December 14, 1867, to June 6, 1868Our Luc who indeed at this time was living within a go den cloud that hung before her e es and encompassed her about, beheld all er friend's behaviour through the same dreamy medium. She admired Mr. Beaufort, and saw everything that was generous and chival rous in him, admirin him the more because he had shown himsel above the vile whispers of the mean creatures about. On this princi le, too, she was always with her friend in pu lie places, and the five - Miss Lucy and Vivian, Mrs. Wilkinson and Mr. Beaufort, and Harm made up a little party at ublic places - at the port, for instance, where t e town gathered. Our Lucy deli hted in thus bearding the colony, and, it must be added, her enemy, as she now considered Mr. West, whose eyes, she fancied, followed her proceedings with grave disapproval. That unhappy gentleman, living now in a mental fever - restless, disturbed, miserable - seemed to find relief in eagerly watching that part From the same reason, as a sort of bitter chance to the dear girl, he had found himself drawn into a disapproval of the Beaufort party. She takes t em up, he morbidl brooded, on purpose, because she sees that know what sort of people the are. I can read the challenge in her eye. Hat folly, what wickedness, to encourage that poor country lady in her foolishness, all to Spite me! I will frustrate such wickedness. She ma do what she pleases to me, but I will not lbok on and see innocence ruined, all for a girl's freak. It seemed to him that duty was call ing on him to act. Long after, as he looked back to this season and to the whirl of agita tion in which he lived, he thought with wonder of his state.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.