Ellen Wood

Name: East Lynne — Chapter 26
Author: Ellen Wood

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“East Lynne — Chapter 26”, published in 1861, is a work by Ellen Wood. It explores elements such as Carlyle, Mount Severn and Lady Isabel.

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ I put the question to Carlyle—as between man and man—do you listen, Isabel!—whether he had given you cause; and he answered me, as with God over us, he had never given you cause; he had been faithful to you in thought, word and deed; he had never, so far as he could call to mind, even looked upon another woman with covetous feelings, since the hour that he made you his wife; his whole thoughts had been of you, and of you alone. It is more than many a husband can say," significantly coughed Lord Mount Severn. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ She did not reply; she could not gainsay it; she only sat with her meek face of shame and her eyelids drooping.
"If ever a woman had a good husband, in every sense of the word, you had, in Carlyle; if ever man loved his wife, he loved you. How could you so requite him?"
She rolled, in a confused manner, the corners of her warm shawl over her unconscious fingers.
"I read the note you left for your husband. He showed it to me; the only one, I believe, to whom he did show it. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ Your father is gone, but I stand in his place, there is no one else to stand in it."
Her tears began to fall. And she let them fall—in silence. The earl resumed.
"But for that extraordinary letter, I should have supposed you had been actuated by a mad infatuation for the cur, Levison; its tenor gave the matter a different aspect. To what did you allude when you asserted that your husband had driven you to it?"
"He knew," she answered, scarcely above her breath.
"He did not know," sternly replied the earl. "A more truthful, honorable man than Carlyle does not exist on the face of the earth. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ I saw them as my carriage passed."
"And you were jealous that he should be there!" exclaimed Lord Mount Severn, with mocking reproach, as he detected her mood. "Listen!" he whispered, bending his head toward her. "While you may have thought, as your present tone would seem to intimate, that they were pacing there to enjoy each other's society, know that they—Carlyle, at any rate—was pacing the walk to keep guard. One was within that house—for a short half hour's interview with his poor mother—one who lives in danger of the scaffold, to which his own father would be the first to deliver him up. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ A notion had been suggested to him, after your departure, that his sister had somewhat marred your peace at East Lynne, and he blamed you much, if it was so, for not giving him your full confidence on the point, that he might set matters on the right footing. But it was impossible, and there was the evidence in the note besides, that the presence of Miss Carlyle at East Lynne could be any excuse for your disgracing us all and ruining yourself."
"Do not let us speak of these things," said Lady Isabel, faintly. "It cannot redeem the past." ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ One out of the world and forgotten! "Susanne," she cried aloud, a thought striking her, "it is never Sir Fran—it is not monsieur!"
"Not in the least like monsieur," complacently answered Susanne. "It is a tall, brave English gentleman, proud and noble looking like a prince."
Every pulse within Lady Isabel's body throbbed rebelliously: her heart bounded till it was like to burst her side, and she turned sick with astonishment.
"Tall, brave, noble?" could that description apply to any but Mr. Carlyle? Strange that so unnatural an idea should have occurred to her ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ Carlyle was true and faithful to you, and to you alone. Few women have the chance of happiness, in their married life, in the degree that you had. He is an upright and good man; one of nature's gentlemen; one that England may be proud of as having grown upon her soil. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ Mr. Carlyle come to see her! Her! Francis Levison might be sending over some man of business, regarding the money question, was her next thought: if so, she should certainly refuse to see him.
"Go down to the gentleman and ask him his name Susanne. Ask also from whence he came."
Susanne disappeared, and returned, and the gentleman behind her. Whether she had invited him, or whether he had chosen to come uninvited, there he was. Lady Isabel caught a glimpse, and flung her hands over her burning cheeks of shame. It was Lord Mount Severn. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ She looked at him, wondering whether she did understand.
"You have not a shilling in the world," he resumed. "How do you propose to live?"
"I have some money yet. When—"
"His money?" sharply and haughtily interposed the earl.
"No," she indignantly replied. "I am selling my trinkets. Before they are all gone, I shall look out to get a living in some way; by teaching, probably."
"Trinkets!" repeated Lord Mount Severn. "Mr. Carlyle told me that you carried nothing away with you from East Lynne." ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ What sum will it take you to live upon? Quietly; as of course you would now wish to live, but comfortably."
"I will not accept anything," she replied. "I will get my own living." And the earl's irascibility again arose at the speech. ”

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Ellen Wood, East Lynne — Chapter 26 (1861)

“ When these inexplicable things take place in the career of a woman, it is a father's duty to look into motives and causes and actions, although the events in themselves may be, as in this case, irreparable. ”

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