At last a promise was extracted from him that he would
not again enter the parsonage, but he would not gratify Lady
Rotherwood so far as to abstain from going to Beechcroft, a place
which she began to regard with horror. He now was almost constantly
at the New Court, talking over the reports, and quite provoking Emily
by never desponding, and never choosing to perceive how bad things
really were. Every day which was worse than the last was supposed to
be the crisis, and every restless sleep that they heard of he
interpreted into the beginning of recovery. At last, however, after
ten days of suspense, the report began to improve, and Claude came to
the New Court with a more cheerful face, to say that his cousin was
munch better. The world seemed immediately to grow brighter, people
went about with joyful looks, Lord Rotherwood declared that from the
first he had known all would be well, and Lily began to hope that now
she had been spared so heavy a punishment, it was a kind of earnest
that other things would mend, that she had suffered enough. The
future no longer hung before her in such dark colours as before Mr.
Devereux's illness, though still the New Court was in no satisfactory
state, and still she had reason to expect that her father and Eleanor
would be disappointed and grieved.
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