But all this belonged -- I mean their magnificent little surrender -- just to the special array of the facts that were most abysmal.
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Walking to church a certain Sunday morning, I had little Miles at my side and his sister, in advance of us and at Mrs. Grose's, well in sight.
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Why did they never resent my inexorable, my perpetual society? Something or other had brought nearer home to me that I had all but pinned the boy to my shawl and that, in the way our companions were marshaled before me, I might have appeared to provide against some danger of rebellion.
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It was a crisp, clear day, the first of its order for some time; the night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright and sharp, made the church bells almost gay. It was an odd accident of thought that I should have happened at such a moment to be particularly and very gratefully struck with the obedience of my little charges.
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I was like a gaoler with an eye to possible surprises and escapes.
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Turned out for Sunday by his uncle's tailor, who had had a free hand and a notion of pretty waistcoats and of his grand little air, Miles's whole title to independence, the rights of his sex and situation, were so stamped upon him that if he had suddenly struck for freedom I should have had nothing to say. I was by the strangest of chances wondering how I should meet him when the revolution unmistakably occurred.
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I call it a revolution because I now see how, with the word he spoke, the curtain rose on the last act of my dreadful drama, and the catastrophe was precipitated. "Look here, my dear, you know," he charmingly said, "when in the world, please, am I going back to school?"
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Transcribed here the speech sounds harmless enough, particularly as uttered in the sweet, high, casual pipe with which, at all interlocutors, but above all at his eternal governess, he threw off intonations as if he were tossing roses.
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There was something in them that always made one "catch," and I caught, at any rate, now so effectually that I stopped as short as if one of the trees of the park had fallen across the road.
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I could feel in him how he already, from my at first finding nothing to reply, perceived the advantage he had gained.
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There was something new, on the spot, between us, and he was perfectly aware that I recognized it, though, to enable me to do so, he had no need to look a whit less candid and charming than usual.
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I was so slow to find anything that he had plenty of time, after a minute, to continue with his suggestive but inconclusive smile: "You know, my dear, that for a fellow to be with a lady ALWAYS --!"
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But, oh, how I felt that at present I must pick my own phrases! I remember that, to gain time, I tried to laugh, and I seemed to see in the beautiful face with which he watched me how ugly and queer I looked.
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His "my dear" was constantly on his lips for me, and nothing could have expressed more the exact shade of the sentiment with which I desired to inspire my pupils than its fond familiarity.
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It was so respectfully easy.
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"And always with the same lady?" I returned. He neither blanched nor winked. The whole thing was virtually out between us. "Ah, of course, she's a jolly, 'perfect' lady; but, after all, I'm a fellow, don't you see? That's -- well, getting on."
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"Yes, you're getting on." Oh, but I felt helpless! I have kept to this day the heartbreaking little idea of how he seemed to know that and to play with it.
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I lingered there with him an instant ever so kindly.
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"And you can't say I've not been awfully good, can you?"
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I laid my hand on his shoulder, for, though I felt how much better it would have been to walk on, I was not yet quite able.
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"But it isn't so much that."
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"Why, when I went down -- went out of the house."
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"Ah, but that isn't everything! Of course YOU know a lot --" "But you hint that you know almost as much?"
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"It was nothing," I said. "But we must go on." he resumed our walk with me, passing his hand into my arm.
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"Except just that one night, you know --!"
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"Oh, yes. But I forget what you did it for."
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"Were you very happy at school?" He just considered. "Oh, I'm happy enough anywhere!" "Well, then," I quavered, "if you're just as happy here --!"
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"Then when AM I going back?"
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"No, not THAT again. It was nothing."
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"No, I can't say that, Miles."
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"That one night?" I couldn't look as straight as he.
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"You forget?"-- he spoke with the sweet extravagance of childish reproach. "Why, it was to show you I could!"
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I wore, in turning it over, my most responsible air.
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"Oh, yes, you could."
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I felt that I might, perhaps, after all, succeed in keeping my wits about me. "Certainly. But you won't."
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"Not half I want to!" Miles honestly professed.
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"And I can again."
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I seemed literally to be running a race with some confusion to which he was about to reduce me, but I felt that he had got in first when, before we had even entered the churchyard, he threw out --"I want my own sort!"
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I quickened our step; I wanted to get there before the question between us opened up much further; I reflected hungrily that, for more than an hour, he would have to be silent; and I thought with envy of the comparative dusk of the pew and of the almost spiritual help of the hassock on which I might bend my knees.
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"I see; I see." We had arrived within sight of the church and of various persons, including several of the household of Bly, on their way to it and clustered about the door to see us go in.
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"Well -- I want to see more life."
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"What is it, then?"
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It literally made me bound forward. "There are not many of your own sort, Miles!"I laughed. "Unless perhaps dear little Flora!"
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"You really compare me to a baby girl?"
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This found me singularly weak. "Don't you, then, LOVE our sweet Flora?"
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"If I didn't -- and you, too; if I didn't --!" he repeated as if retreating for a jump, yet leaving his thought so unfinished that, after we had come into the gate, another stop, which he imposed on me by the pressure of his arm, had become inevitable.
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Mrs. Grose and Flora had passed into the church, the other worshippers had followed, and we were, for the minute, alone among the old, thick graves. We had paused, on the path from the gate, by a low, oblong, tablelike tomb.
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"Yes, if you didn't --?" he looked, while I waited, at the graves. "Well, you know what!"
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But he didn't move, and he presently produced something that made me drop straight down on the stone slab, as if suddenly to rest.
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"Ah, well, of course I don't; for it strikes me you never tell me. But I mean does HE know?"
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"Does my uncle think what YOU think?"
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"Why, the way I'm going on."
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I markedly rested. "How do you know what I think?"
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"Know what, Miles?"
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I perceived quickly enough that I could make, to this inquiry, no answer that would not involve something of a sacrifice of my employer. Yet it appeared to me that we were all, at Bly, sufficiently sacrificed to make that venial.
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"In what way?"
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Miles, on this, stood looking at me. "Then don't you think he can be made to?"
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"I don't think your uncle much cares."
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"Why, by his coming down."
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"But who'll get him to come down?"
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"I will!" the boy said with extraordinary brightness and emphasis. He gave me another look charged with that expression and then marched off alone into church.
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