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"
I
sha
n't
have
time
to
do
it
here
,
"
said
Rebecca
.
'
I
'll
do
it
when
--
when
I
'm
gone
.
"
And
she
dropped
her
voice
,
and
looked
so
sad
and
piteous
,
that
everybody
felt
how
cruel
her
lot
was
,
and
how
sorry
they
would
be
to
part
with
her
.
"
O
that
you
could
stay
longer
,
dear
Rebecca
,
"
said
Amelia
.
"
Why
?
"
answered
the
other
,
still
more
sadly
.
"
That
I
may
be
only
the
more
unhap
--
unwilling
to
lose
you
?
"
And
she
turned
away
her
head
.
Amelia
began
to
give
way
to
that
natural
infirmity
of
tears
which
,
we
have
said
,
was
one
of
the
defects
of
this
silly
little
thing
.
George
Osborne
looked
at
the
two
young
women
with
a
touched
curiosity
;
and
Joseph
Sedley
heaved
something
very
like
a
sigh
out
of
his
big
chest
,
as
he
cast
his
eyes
down
towards
his
favourite
Hessian
boots
.
"
Let
us
have
some
music
,
Miss
Sedley
--
Amelia
,
"
said
George
,
who
felt
at
that
moment
an
extraordinary
,
almost
irresistible
impulse
to
seize
the
above-mentioned
young
woman
in
his
arms
,
and
to
kiss
her
in
the
face
of
the
company
;
and
she
looked
at
him
for
a
moment
,
and
if
I
should
say
that
they
fell
in
love
with
each
other
at
that
single
instant
of
time
,
I
should
perhaps
be
telling
an
untruth
,
for
the
fact
is
that
these
two
young
people
had
been
bred
up
by
their
parents
for
this
very
purpose
,
and
their
banns
had
,
as
it
were
,
been
read
in
their
respective
families
any
time
these
ten
years
.
They
went
off
to
the
piano
,
which
was
situated
,
as
pianos
usually
are
,
in
the
back
drawing-room
;
and
as
it
was
rather
dark
,
Miss
Amelia
,
in
the
most
unaffected
way
in
the
world
,
put
her
hand
into
Mr.
Osborne
's
,
who
,
of
course
,
could
see
the
way
among
the
chairs
and
ottomans
a
great
deal
better
than
she
could
.
But
this
arrangement
left
Mr.
Joseph
Sedley
tete-a-tete
with
Rebecca
,
at
the
drawing-room
table
,
where
the
latter
was
occupied
in
knitting
a
green
silk
purse
.
"
There
is
no
need
to
ask
family
secrets
,
"
said
Miss
Sharp
.
"
Those
two
have
told
theirs
.
"
"
As
soon
as
he
gets
his
company
,
"
said
Joseph
,
"
I
believe
the
affair
is
settled
.
George
Osborne
is
a
capital
fellow
.
"
"
And
your
sister
the
dearest
creature
in
the
world
,
"
said
Rebecca
.
"
Happy
the
man
who
wins
her
!
"
With
this
,
Miss
Sharp
gave
a
great
sigh
.
When
two
unmarried
persons
get
together
,
and
talk
upon
such
delicate
subjects
as
the
present
,
a
great
deal
of
confidence
and
intimacy
is
presently
established
between
them
.
There
is
no
need
of
giving
a
special
report
of
the
conversation
which
now
took
place
between
Mr.
Sedley
and
the
young
lady
;
for
the
conversation
,
as
may
be
judged
from
the
foregoing
specimen
,
was
not
especially
witty
or
eloquent
;
it
seldom
is
in
private
societies
,
or
anywhere
except
in
very
high-flown
and
ingenious
novels
.
As
there
was
music
in
the
next
room
,
the
talk
was
carried
on
,
of
course
,
in
a
low
and
becoming
tone
,
though
,
for
the
matter
of
that
,
the
couple
in
the
next
apartment
would
not
have
been
disturbed
had
the
talking
been
ever
so
loud
,
so
occupied
were
they
with
their
own
pursuits
.
Almost
for
the
first
time
in
his
life
,
Mr.
Sedley
found
himself
talking
,
without
the
least
timidity
or
hesitation
,
to
a
person
of
the
other
sex
.
Miss
Rebecca
asked
him
a
great
number
of
questions
about
India
,
which
gave
him
an
opportunity
of
narrating
many
interesting
anecdotes
about
that
country
and
himself
.
He
described
the
balls
at
Government
House
,
and
the
manner
in
which
they
kept
themselves
cool
in
the
hot
weather
,
with
punkahs
,
tatties
,
and
other
contrivances
;
and
he
was
very
witty
regarding
the
number
of
Scotchmen
whom
Lord
Minto
,
the
Governor-General
,
patronised
;
and
then
he
described
a
tiger-hunt
;
and
the
manner
in
which
the
mahout
of
his
elephant
had
been
pulled
off
his
seat
by
one
of
the
infuriated
animals
.
How
delighted
Miss
Rebecca
was
at
the
Government
balls
,
and
how
she
laughed
at
the
stories
of
the
Scotch
aides-de-camp
,
and
called
Mr.
Sedley
a
sad
wicked
satirical
creature
;
and
how
frightened
she
was
at
the
story
of
the
elephant
!
"
For
your
mother
's
sake
,
dear
Mr.
Sedley
,
"
she
said
,
"
for
the
sake
of
all
your
friends
,
promise
NEVER
to
go
on
one
of
those
horrid
expeditions
.
"
