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"We shall see I think there is"
Certainly Rem was of this opinion The past feeeks had been very favourable to him In them he had been continually associated with Cornelia, and her manner towards him had been so frankly kind and familiar, so confidential and sympathetic, that he could not help but contrast it with their previous intercourse, when she had appeared to withdraw herself froacquaintance with her entitled hiiven hie of attitude It simply ard to her own affections which pereneral latitude She knew that she loved Hyde, and she knew that Hyde loved her They had a most complete confidence in each other; and she was not afraid, either for his sake or her own, to give to Rem that friendship which the circurow to love on her part was an is, it was to suppose that he must understand this position as well as she did herself
Rem, however, was quite aware of his rival, and with the blunt directness of his nature watched with jealous dislike, and often with rude impatience, the familiar intercourse which his aunt's partiality permitted Hyde He was, indeed, often so rude that a less sweet- tee Hyde would have pointedly resented " which is often the truest courage
Still the situation was one of great tension, and it required not only the wise forbearance of Hyde and Cornelia, but the do selfishness of Arenta and the suave clever diplomacies of Madame Jacobus to preserve at times the merely decent conventionalities of polite life To keep the peace until the wedding was over--that was all that Reave voice to this last word, though he had no distinct idea as to what measures he included in those four letters
He told hie Hyde to be in England, and that if he were there, the General e of his son For he knew that an English noble would be of necessity bound by his caste and his connections, and that Hyde would have to face obligations he would not be able to shirk "Then, then, his opportunity to win Cornelia would come!" And it was at this point the hopeful "maybe" entered into Rem's desires and anticipations