"I sincerely sympathize with you," Turlington heard him say;
"and Natalie feels about it as I do. But Richard is an obstacle in our
way. We must look to the consequences, my dear boy, supposing Richard
found us out." He nodded kindly to his nephew; and, declining to pursue
the subject, moved away to another part of the room.
Turlington's jealous distrust, wrought to the highest pitch of
irritability for weeks past, instantly associated the words he had just
heard with the words spoken by Launce in the boudoir, which had reminded
him that he was not married to Natalie yet. Was there treachery at work
under the surface? and was the object to persuade weak Sir Joseph to
reconsider his daughter's contemplated marriage in a sense favorable
to Launce? Turlington's blind suspicion overleaped at a bound all the
manifest improbabilities which forbade such a conclusion as this. After
an instant's consideration with himself, he decided on keeping his own
counsel, and on putting Sir Joseph's good faith then and there to a test
which he could rely on as certain to take Natalie's father by surprise.
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