human
Then I ought to be useful. I can be;--will be!
gpt
Lucia, asked she, that very afternoon,
human
Oh, you dear good creature? but it would be such a _gêne_! They are really stupid, I am afraid sometimes, or else I am. They make me so miserably cross at times.
gpt
I will take them. It would be a relief to you, would it not?
human
My clear! said poor Lucia, with a doleful smile, which seemed to Valencia's self-accusing heart to say,
gpt
Have you only now discovered that fact?
human
casting themselves at the feet of directors; which had tempted her to coquette with Elsley, and was now bringing her into
gpt
When you return to Aberalva,
human
I shall never return to Aberalva.
gpt
Not return?
human
No; I have already resigned the curacy. I believe your uncle has appointed to it the man whom Campbell found for me: and an excellent man, I hear, he is. At least, he will do better there than I.
gpt
But what could have induced you? How sorry all the people will be!
human
I am not sure of that, said he with a smile.
gpt
I did what I could at last to win back at least their respect, and to leave at least not hatred behind me: but I am unfit for them. I did not understand them. I meant--no matter what I meant? but I failed. God forgive me! I shall now go somewhere where I shall have simpler work to do, where I shall at least have a chance of practising the lesson which I learnt there. I learnt it all, strange to say, from the two people in the parish from whom I expected to learn least.
human
Whom do you mean?
gpt
The doctor and the schoolmistress.
human
Why from them less than from any in the parish? She so good, and he so clever?
gpt
That I shall never tell to any one now. Suffice it that I was mistaken.