"If I have any
interests here, I feel that they are safe in your hands, Mr.
Wallingford."
She leaned a little towards him, and I thought her voice had in it a
softer tone than usual. Her eyes looked steadily into his face.
"I will do all that is right, madam." He spoke a little lower than
usual.
"And the right is always the best in any case, Mr. Wallingford,"
said she with feeling.
"How soon do you think of removing?" the young man inquired.
"In three or four weeks."
"So soon."
Again I noticed that his eyes wandered towards Blanche, who sat
close to her mother, with her face bent down and turned partly away.
"There is no reason why we should linger in S----, after all things
are ready for removal. It would have suited my feelings and habits
of mind to have remained here; but as this cannot be, I prefer going
to Boston on more than one account."
"You will leave behind you many sincere friends," said Wallingford.
There was more feeling in his voice than usually showed itself; and
I again observed that Mrs. Montgomery, in responding to the remark,
fixed her eyes upon him steadily, and with, I thought, a look of
more than usual interest.
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