[A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 by Mrs. Harry Coghill]@TWC D-Link bookA Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 CHAPTER X 3/10
Since the first two days of his absence there had been until now so constant a rush and strain of events and emotions, that she had not had time to miss him much; on the contrary, indeed, she had had passing sensations of gladness that he was not near at certain crises to pierce with his clear eyes and ready intuition, quite through the veil of composure which she could keep impervious enough to others.
But now that the composure began to be more than a mere veil, and that her whole powers were no longer on the full stretch to maintain it; now, too, when everything outwardly went on the same as it had done three months ago, before Mr.Percy came to Cacouna, or the story of Christian had been told; now, she wanted the last and strongest of all old habits to be again practicable, and to see her old companion again at hand.
She remained, however, totally unsuspicious of all that had passed between her mother and Maurice.
She even fancied, sometimes, that Mrs.Costello did Maurice the injustice of believing him changed by the change of his circumstances, and that her affection for him had in consequence cooled. "Of course," she said to herself, "if he were here now, and with us as he used to be, we should always have the feeling that by-and-by, when the truth comes to be known, or when we go away, we should have to part with him.
But, still, it would be nice to have him.
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