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The letter from Mrs Haynes was passed from hand to hand 'Everybody feels sure twilight pandora charms,' it said, 'that a great deal of his money will be left for public purposes The ground for the park being already purchased, he is sure to have made provision for carrying out his plans connected with it But I hope your friends in London may benefit'.
It was some time before Jasper could put an end to the speculative conversation and betake himself homewards And even on getting back to his lodgings he was little disposed to go to bed This event of John Yule's death had been constantly in his mind, but there was always a fear that it might not happen for long enough; the sudden announcement excited him almost as much as if he were a relative of the deceased.
'Confound his public purposes' was the thought upon which he at length slept.
CHAPTER XXI MR YULE LEAVES TOWN.
Since the domestic incidents connected with that unpleasant review in The Current, the relations between Alfred Yule and his daughter had suffered a permanent change, though not in a degree noticeable by any one but the two concerned To all appearances, they worked together and conversed very much as they had been wont to do; but Marian was made to feel in many subtle ways that her father no longer had complete confidence in her, no longer took the same pleasure as formerly in the skill and conscientiousness of her work, and Yule on his side perceived too clearly that the girl was preoccupied with something other than her old wish to aid and satisfy him, that she had a new life of her own alien to, and in some respects irreconcilable with, the existence in which he desired to confirm her There was no renewal of open disagreement, but their conversations frequently ended by tacit mutual consent, at a point which threatened divergence; and in Yule's case every such warning was a cause of intense irritation He feared to provoke Marian, and this fear was again a torture to his pride.

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