She seemed ever
so much larger as well as lovelier, and Walter gazed at her with a sort
of loving awe, and she smiled archly at him, and it was the first time
she had really enjoyed her own beauty, or even troubled her head much
about it. They condensed a honey-moon into these four days, and came home
compensated for their patience, and more devoted than ever. But whilst
they were away Colonel Clifford fired his attorney at Mr. Bartley, and
when Mary came home, Bartley, who had lately connived at the love affair,
told Mary this, and forbade her strictly to hold any more intercourse
with Walter Clifford.
This was the state of things when "the hare with many friends," and only
one enemy, returned to his cottage late in the afternoon. But before
night everybody knew he had come home, and next morning they were all at
him in due order. No sooner was he seated in his workshop, studying the
lines of a new machine he was trying to invent, than he was startled from
intense thought into the attitude of Hogarth's enraged musician by cries
of "Mr.
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