The Dominion dwelt
upon this repeated demonstration of the strength of Reform
principles in South Fox, and Mrs Murchison said they were
welcome to Carter.
Many will sympathize with Mrs Murchison at this point,
I hope, and regret to abandon her in such equivocal
approval of the circumstances which have arisen round
her. Too anxiously occupied at home to take her share in
the general pleasant sensation of Dr Drummond's marriage,
she was compelled to give it a hurried consideration and
a sanction which was practically wrested from her. She
could not be clear as to the course of events that led
to it, nor entirely satisfied, as she said, about the
ins and outs of the affair; this although she felt she
could be clearer, and possibly had better grounds for
being satisfied, than other people. As to Advena's simple
statement that Miss Cameron had made a second choice of
the Doctor, changing her mind, as far as Mrs Murchison
could see, without rhyme or reason, that Mrs Murchison
took leave to find a very poor explanation. Advena's own
behaviour toward the rejection is one of the things which
her mother declares, probably truly, that she never will
understand. To pick up a man in the actual fling of being
thrown over, will never, in Mrs Murchison's eyes, constitute
a decorous proceeding.
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