An attachment could only lead to unhappiness now, besides the
positive harm of unsettling him. His tutor tells me that as it is
he is very uneasy about his examination--his mind is evidently
preoccupied. No, no, Cecil, don't make the intercourse
unnecessarily close. The Vivians have not behaved well to my
mother, and it is not desirable to begin a renewal. But you shall
not lose your ride, Cecil; I'll ask one of the boys to go with you
to the Beeches, and perhaps I shall meet you there."
"He talks of my lonely life," said Cecil, to herself, "and yet he
wants to keep me from the only person who really understands me, all
for some rancorous old prejudice of Mrs. Poynsett's. It is very
hard. There's no one in the house to make a friend of--Rosamond, a
mere garrison belle; and Anne, bornee and half a dissenter; and as
soon as I try to make a friend, I am tyrannized over, and this Miss
Bowater thrust on me."
She was pounding these sentiments into a sonata with great energy,
when her door re-opened, and Raymond again appeared. "I am looking
for two books of Mudie's.
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