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第29章

Mr.Mudge had lately been so occupied with their famous "plans"that he had neglected for a while the question of her transfer;but down at Bournemouth,which had found itself selected as the field of their recreation by a process consisting,it seemed,exclusively of innumerable pages of the neatest arithmetic in a very greasy but most orderly little pocket-book,the distracting possible melted away--the fleeting absolute ruled the scene.The plans,hour by hour,were simply superseded,and it was much of a rest to the girl,as she sat on the pier and overlooked the sea and the company,to see them evaporate in rosy fumes and to feel that from moment to moment there was less left to cipher about.The week proves blissfully fine,and her mother,at their lodgings--partly to her embarrassment and partly to her relief--struck up with the landlady an alliance that left the younger couple a great deal of freedom.This relative took her pleasure of a week at Bournemouth in a stuffy back-kitchen and endless talks;to that degree even that Mr.Mudge himself--habitually inclined indeed to a scrutiny of all mysteries and to seeing,as he sometimes admitted,too much in things--made remarks on it as he sat on the cliff with his betrothed,or on the decks of steamers that conveyed them,close-packed items in terrific totals of enjoyment,to the Isle of Wight and the Dorset coast.

He had a lodging in another house,where he had speedily learned the importance of keeping his eyes open,and he made no secret of his suspecting that sinister mutual connivances might spring,under the roof of his companions,from unnatural sociabilities.At the same time he fully recognised that as a source of anxiety,not to say of expense,his future mother-in law would have weighted them more by accompanying their steps than by giving her hostess,in the interest of the tendency they considered that they never mentioned,equivalent pledges as to the tea-caddy and the jam-pot.These were the questions--these indeed the familiar commodities--that he had now to put into the scales;and his betrothed had in consequence,during her holiday,the odd and yet pleasant and almost languid sense of an anticlimax.She had become conscious of an extraordinary collapse,a surrender to stillness and to retrospect.

She cared neither to walk nor to sail;it was enough for her to sit on benches and wonder at the sea and taste the air and not be at Cocker's and not see the counter-clerk.She still seemed to wait for something--something in the key of the immense discussions that had mapped out their little week of idleness on the scale of a world-atlas.Something came at last,but without perhaps appearing quite adequately to crown the monument.

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