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CHAPTER XXIII. DR. CLAYTON.
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Rapidly, and to me very happily, did the winter pass away, for it was enlivened by the presence of Mr. Delafield, who was with us so often, that it became at last a serious debate among the blacks as to whether Cedar1 Grove2 or Sunny Bank were really his home. More than once, too, was it whispered in the village, that little Rosa Lee, plain and unassuming as she was, had stirred in the heart of the “stern old bachelor” a far deeper feeling than Ada Montrose had ever been capable of awakening4. And sometimes she, foolish child that she was, thought so too, not from anything he said, neither from anything which he did; indeed, it would have been hard for her to tell why her heart sometimes beat so fast when he was near, for though his manner was always kind and considerate, he never spoke5 to her of love—never appeared as he had once done in the summer-house, when she gave him such silly answers!
And still, occasionally, Rosa dared to hope that her love was returned, else why did each day find him at her side where he lingered so long, saying to her but little, but watching her movements, and listening to her words, as he would not have done had she been to him an object of indifference6. Not naturally quick to read human nature, Mrs. Lansing was wholly deceived by her brother’s cold exterior7, 279and never dreaming how in secret he worshiped the humble8 girl she called her governess, she left them much together. Why then did he never speak to her of the passion which had become a part of his being? Simply because he, too, was deceived. Once, indeed, he had essayed to tell her of his love, and dreading9 lest his affection should not be returned, he was the more ready to construe
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