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trembling; Arthur Gride plucked and fumbled at his hat, and durst
not raise his eyes from the floor; even Ralph crouched for the
moment like a beaten hound, cowed by the presence of one young
innocent girl!

The effect was almost as brief as sudden. Ralph was the first to
recover himself, and observing Madeline’s looks of alarm,
entreated the poor girl to be composed, assuring her that there
was no cause for fear.

‘A sudden spasm,’ said Ralph, glancing at Mr Bray. ‘He is quite
well now.’

It might have moved a very hard and worldly heart to see the
young and beautiful creature, whose certain misery they had been
contriving but a minute before, throw her arms about her father’s
neck, and pour forth words of tender sympathy and love, the
sweetest a father’s ear can know, or child’s lips form. But Ralph
looked coldly on; and Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated
only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which
reigned within, evinced--a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but
not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation
of virtue usually inspires.

‘Madeline,’ said her father, gently disengaging himself, ‘it was
nothing.’

‘But you had that spasm yesterday, and it is terrible to see you
in such pain. Can I do nothing for you?’

‘Nothing just now. Here are two gentlemen, Madeline, one of
whom you have seen before. She used to say,’ added Mr Bray,
addressing Arthur Gride, ‘that the sight of you always made me
worse. That was natural, knowing what she did, and only what she
did, of our connection and its results. Well, well. Perhaps she may


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