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best remembrances to all at home. As I left him, resuming his stool and his pen, and rolling his head in his stock, to get it into easier writing order, I clearly perceived that there was something interposed between him and me, since he had come into his new functions, which prevented our getting at each other as we used to do, and quite altered the character of our intercourse. There was no one in the quaint old drawing-room, though it presented tokens of Mrs. Heep's whereabouts. I looked into the room still belonging to Agnes, and saw her sitting by the fire, at a pretty old-fashioned desk she had, writing. My darkening the light made her look up. What a pleasure to be the cause of that bright change in her attentive face, and the object of that sweet regard and welcome! 'Ah, Agnes!' said I, when we were sitting together, side by side; 'I have missed you so much, lately!' 'Indeed?' she replied. 'Again! And so soon?' I shook my head. 'I don't know how it is, Agnes; I seem to want some faculty of mind that I ought to have. You were so much in the habit of thinking for me, in the happy old days here, and I came so naturally to you for counsel and support, that I really think I have missed acquiring it.' 'And what is it?' said Agnes, cheerfully. 'I don't know what to call it,' I replied. 'I think I am earnest and persevering?' 'I am sure of it,' said Agnes. 'And patient, Agnes?' I inquired, with a little hesitation. 'Yes,' returned Agnes, laughing. 'Pretty well.' 'And yet,' said I, 'I get so miserable and worried, and am so unsteady and irresolute in my power of assuring myself, that I know I must want - shall I call it - reliance, of some kind?' 'Call it so, if you will,' said Agnes. |
