"You must know her, and you will see."
Mrs. Montgomery brushed away her tears, and blushed at having shed
them. "I should like to know your daughter," she answered; and then,
in an instant--"Don't let her marry him!"
Dr. Sloper went away with the words gently humming in his ears--
"Don't let her marry him!" They gave him the moral satisfaction of
which he had just spoken, and their value was the greater that they
had evidently cost a pang to poor little Mrs. Montgomery's family
pride.
CHAPTER XV
He had been puzzled by the way that Catherine carried herself; her
attitude at this sentimental crisis seemed to him unnaturally
passive. She had not spoken to him again after that scene in the
library, the day before his interview with Morris; and a week had
elapsed without making any change in her manner. There was nothing
in it that appealed for pity, and he was even a little disappointed
at her not giving him an opportunity to make up for his harshness by
some manifestation of liberality which should operate as a
compensation. He thought a little of offering to take her for a tour
in Europe; but he was determined to do this only in case she should
seem mutely to reproach him. He had an idea that she would display a
talent for mute reproaches, and he was surprised at not finding
himself exposed to these silent batteries. She said nothing, either
tacitly or explicitly, and as she was never very talkative, there was
now no especial eloquence in her reserve.
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