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? This ib quite too much / ghe exoUiraed , rising . But this ia not the first time when my habits of condescension have prodttoeti their own punishment . I had intended to offer you an asylum here till you had suited yourself with another situation ; you will now do me the favour to leave Vernon House immediately . '
Mrs . Vernon walked out of the room ; before Miss Paget had recovered herself sufficiently to follow her example , another door opened and Montague appeared . She startled and coloured , from the ideas associated with him in the recent interview with his mother . This was the first time he had seen Florence evince emotion at his presence ; he was as quick to misinterpret , as to discern it .
Miss PagetP he exclaimed with delight , and darting his eyes about the room , perceived she was alone . It was a moment not to be lost , but his feelings were too real to allow him to speak . Gallantry has its rhetoric ; love , its eloquence ; but it is not always , nor often , the eloquence of words . Besides , Montague ' s brief contained clauses not easy to plead in a court of equity ; he therefore filled the interstices of a few broken words with the
luminous Language of his eyes , and the expressive gesture ( from time immemorial the lover ' s form for ' filing a declaration' ) of falling on his knee . Florence had been no sentimental novel-reader ; she had never been at a boarding-school ; she had experienced none of the arti * ficial training of general female education : nothing , therefore ,
could be more unlike the rules made and provided for accepting or rejecting a lover than hers . She was possessed by a holy honesty and sweet benevolence . She did not say no when she meant yes ; and when she said no , she meant it ; yet she said it with a kind reluctance , flowing from her unwillingness to give pain . Judging from her own truth , she was too apt to give im ~
plicit faith to profession ; hence , with her , as with most others acting upon the same principle , the false estimates she made . She could not believe herself loved , and incapable of making a return , without pain and regret , which touched her expression with softness , if not with tenderness . Her reply to Montague fell in a voice soft as snow upon a river , yet not as cold ; because , judging from the tactics of the sex as they are trained , he believed her refusal a feint , and that she retreated , from the dictates of
the refined art which he imagined to be inherent in woman . While Florence was y «* speaking , Mra . Vernon returned into the room ; accompanied by Mufe Allen . Montague sprung to his feet , and Florence , released from hU hold , flew from the room . He looked the proud raga he'fok , as h « glott ## & firem tl ^ furious
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/26/
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