I would wish that he should stay
away for months. And, Fanny, it is a great addition to my misfortune
to feel that you do not sympathize with me." Having said this, in a
slow, sorrowful, and severe tone, Lady Lufton got up and took her
departure. Of course Mrs. Robarts did not let her go without assuring
her that she did sympathize with her,--did love her as she ever
had loved her. But wounds cannot be cured as easily as they may be
inflicted, and Lady Lufton went her way with much real sorrow at her
heart. She was proud and masterful, fond of her own way, and much too
careful of the worldly dignities to which her lot had called her: but
she was a woman who could cause no sorrow to those she loved without
deep sorrow to herself.
CHAPTER XLII
Touching Pitch
In these hot midsummer days, the end of June and the beginning of
July, Mr. Sowerby had but an uneasy time of it. At his sister's
instance, he had hurried up to London, and there had remained for
days in attendance on the lawyers. He had to see new lawyers, Miss
Dunstable's men of business, quiet old cautious gentlemen whose
place of business was in a dark alley behind the Bank, Messrs. Slow
& Bideawhile by name, who had no scruple in detaining him for hours
while they or their clerks talked to him about anything or about
nothing.
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