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CHAPTER XIV. — VERY SAD
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Norman prolonged his visit to his father considerably1 beyond the month. At first he applied2 for and received permission to stay away another fortnight, and at the end of that fortnight he sent up a medical certificate in which the doctor alleged3 that he would be unable to attend to business for some considerable additional period. It was not till after Christmas Day that he reappeared at the Weights and Measures.
Alaric kept his appointment at Hampton, and took Charley with him. And on the two following Saturdays he also went there, and on both occasions Charley accompanied him. During these visits, he devoted4 himself, as closely as he could, to Mrs. Woodward. He talked to her of Norman, and of Norman's prospects5 in the office; he told her how he had intended to abstain6 from offering himself as a competitor, till he had, as it were, been forced by Norman to do so; he declared over and over again that Norman would have been victorious7 had he stood his ground to the end, and assured her that such was the general opinion through the whole establishment. And this he did without talking much about himself, or praising himself in any way when he did so. His speech was wholly of his friend, and of the sorrow that he felt that his friend should have been disappointed in his hopes.
All this had its effects. Of Norman's rejected love they neither of them spoke8. Each knew that the other must be aware of it, but the subject was far too tender to be touched, at any rate as yet. And so matters went on, and Alaric regained9 the footing of favour which he had for a while lost with the mistress of the house.
But there was one
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conspiracy
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