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"The point," he replied, fairly provoked, "is, that such as you are,
pretty or plain, I find you charming."
Oh! not indifferent, even in the purest affection, are these things.
I glanced up into his face; and as it told me how thoroughly he
meant all he said, I blushed; then ashamed of blushing, I hung
down my head. He stooped to look at me.
"Yes, Cornelius."
"Yes, Cornelius."
His voice rose and rang with each question; mine sank with every
reply.
He darted at me a look of the keenest reproach.
"Never," he exclaimed, with a fire and vehemence that startled
me, "never have I loved you, or shall I love you so; never for a
second in the past; never for a second in the future; never, Daisy,
never!" And turning from me, he paced the room with hasty steps, a
flushed brow, and angry look. At length he stopped before me; for,
being somewhat calmer, the fire of his look seemed more earnest
and concentrated, the accents of his voice more measured and
deep. He said:
"And you thought that I liked you, as a father likes his child; I defy
you to prove it! Since I returned from Italy, have I not done all I
could to show you that your esteem, approbation, praise, and love
were dearer to me than language could express? Have I not,
through all our old familiarity, say, have I not mingled reserve and
respect with all my tenderness? Have I not acknowledged the
woman in you, and that in a hundred ways? The love of a father? I
defy you to prove it, Daisy!"
He again paced the room with angry steps. I followed him, and
laying my hand on his arm, I said earnestly—
"Cornelius, you should not be angry with me. Have you forgotten
that, before you went to Italy, you called me your adopted child?
that in your letters you addressed me thus? That on the very
evening of your return, when Kate seemed vexed about it, you were
not displeased, though you are so angry now?"
"The truth!" he echoed, indignantly, "do not call that the truth. I
may have said it, been fool enough to have believed it, but true it
has never been. Never, I tell you, never have I felt for you one spark
of the affection a father feels for his child, never. Do not think,
dream, or imagine such a thing. I deny it in every way in which man
can deny. I would, were it in my power, efface from your mind every
such remembrance of a past, beyond which we both should look."
"Do not look so pale, and above all so frightened," he said, gently;
"there is no need. How you tremble!" he added, taking my hand in
both his, and speaking very sadly, "Oh, Daisy! Daisy!" And he turned
his look away with a strange expression of disappointment and pain,
of shame and mortification.
"Why did you not go with him?" she asked, frowning slightly.
The cloud passed away from her brow. She kissed me and said
"Of course you are."
Cornelius did not come in until late in the evening; he had walked
miles, and was so tired that he could scarcely speak.
CHAPTER VII.
I awoke the next morning with a severe headache; I rose and came
down as usual, thinking to hide it; scarcely, however, had I entered
the front parlour, when Cornelius asked what ailed me. "Only a
headache," I replied, carelessly; but he seemed filled with concern.
He made me return to my room where I slept for a few hours, but
without feeling any better; I then again went down to the parlour
and lay on the sofa. Cornelius, who according to his sister had gone
up to listen at my door every ten minutes—sat by me holding my
hand.
He looked quite pale. I saw there was a deep and secret fear at
his heart, and indeed he showed it sufficiently; for as the day
advanced and my headache still continued to trouble me, he
insisted, spite of my entreaties and those of Kate, on going himself
for a physician who resided several miles off. I was touched to the
heart by this proof of a love so vigilant.
"Kind! why surely child, you can see that he doats on you! Is he
not making a fool of himself, just because your head aches? Would
he not go distracted if anything were to happen to you? Oh, Midge!
Midge!" she added, with a half-stifled sigh, "don't you see you are
the apple of his eye?"
As the heat of the day subsided, I felt suddenly better. The fresh
sea- breeze could only do me good, so I went and sat on the bench
at the end of the garden, there to watch for the return of Cornelius
whose road home lay along the wide sweep of beach beneath me.
For a long time I watched in vain; at length I perceived a man's form
slowly descending the cliffs; I hastened in for my bonnet and scarf,
and merely saying to Kate:
"I see him coming," as I passed the parlour door, I was gone
before she could open her lips to object. When I reached the sands,
I looked in vain for Cornelius. I walked on, thinking he had seen me
coming and stood concealed in a cleft of the rocks, but my look
searched every one of their dark recesses, and nowhere could
discover a token of his presence. It was late, though the singular
clearness of the air which prevails by the sea-side, gave more light
than belonged to the hour. I resolved to go no further, but to give
one more look and return. I climbed up a heap of fallen rocks, and
slowly began to scan the whole coast; it looked silent and lonely in
the pale light of a rising moon. I was preparing to descend from my
post of observation, when I started to perceive a shadow near mine.
I looked up and saw William Murray.
He did not speak, but he took and held both my hands in his, and
pressed them warmly, looking down at me with a happy, smiling
face.
He hesitated as he replied:
He was safe before me; but we feel even the past perils of those
we love. I felt myself turning faint and pale. William seemed much
moved; he assured me that the danger had not been so very great,
though in the hour of peril he had indeed thought of me as of one
he should see no more.
"Oh, William!" I said, looking up, and allowing him again to take
my hands in his, "will you not leave that perilous life, and that
dangerous sea?"
"I cannot, Daisy; why I am only here for two days; I shall not see
much of you before I am off again."
"For long?"
"Two hours."
"Why did I wander up and down here, but to get a sight of you?"
"Then it was you I took for Cornelius. You know he is come back.
Oh,
William! you must call on us and see him. How much you will like
him!"
"And how fond you are of him, Daisy, said William, in a low tone.
"He is a good man, for he does good actions, and never seems to
know it. He is a great man—for he has genius, which is a great gift;
and," I added, with a smile, "he is a handsome man, too, William."
"There are some very fine men amongst those Irish," gravely
replied William; "and they wear well too. There's our captain—
Captain MacMahon— who is upwards of fifty, but the most splendid
fellow I ever saw—six foot six: then such shoulders and such lungs.
He does not roar like Johnstone, or scream like Philipps; but he just
opens his mouth, and lets his voice out as it were. Then his fists—
you should see his fists, Daisy!"
"No," I replied, amused at the question, "not at all. How can I care
for a friend who leaves me to go and get wrecked?"
"I took William for you, Cornelius, and came out to meet you. He
is Miss Murray's nephew, you know, and I had not seen him for
months. Did you come for me from home? I am sorry—very sorry,
Cornelius."
I sought his look, but vainly; it was fastened on William, who had
risen, and now stood before us. Cornelius eyed him from head to
foot, with a keen and scrutinising gaze, which the young man
returned. Neither spoke— there was an evident want of cordiality in
the silent glances they exchanged. I began to feel uncomfortable;
my sense of uneasiness increased when Cornelius turned towards
me, and said coldly:
"I am sorry to hurry you away, Daisy, but Kate is very anxious."
I disengaged my arm from his, and lightly ran back to the spot
where we had left William, and where he still stood looking after us
with folded arms.
He did not take it, but replied in a tone overflowing with reproach:
"Why did you pretend to care for me when you are so wrapped up
in another, that, from the moment he comes up, you have neither
speech nor look for me?"
"I have left him to come and bid you good night, and by way of
thanks, you accuse me of deceiving you. How, and about what?"
"I don't care about his age, nor about his looks either," replied
William, with a scornful laugh. "You may think him handsome if you
like—
I do not."
"I never told you Cornelius was old. It was you chose to compare
an elegant young man, of twenty-seven, to a coarse sea-captain of
fifty, not I. I might add that your remarks are very childish, but I do
not want to speak unkindly. Good night, William. I trust that when I
come here to- morrow morning, I shall find you in a better temper."
I turned away; he followed me.
I replied,
"Go on, and leave you alone at this hour with a strange young
man!"
"He is not strange," I replied, feeling the blush he could not see;
"I have known him since we were both children; and Kate can tell
you he is only a boy."
"Cornelius."
"Yes, Cornelius."
"No, nor the second, nor the third. We have been attached since
Kate brought me to Leigh; and before William went to sea, there
scarcely passed a day but we met somewhere."
"And I have been away two years!" said Cornelius, in a low tone.
"Not a day but you met somewhere!"
"Yes, on the downs, or on the beach, where you found me last
night, and where I had promised to meet him this morning."
He rose; his brow was stern; his face was pale. Half wild with
terror, I threw my arms around his neck, and detained him.
"William," I began.