Noah's remarks, and as Guy depended much on
her judgment, he decided to write to Lucy to see if she had the
slightest objections to his teaching Maddy Clyde. Accordingly he wrote
that very night, telling her frankly all he knew concerning Maddy
Clyde, and narrating the circumstances under which he first had met
her, being careful also to repeat what he knew would have weight with
an English girl like Lucy, to wit, that though poor, Maddy's father
and grandfather Clyde had been gentlemen, the one a clergyman, the
other a sea captain. Then he told of her desire for learning, and his
plan to teach her himself, of what the doctor and Mrs. Noah said about
it, and his final determination to consult her. Then he described
Maddy herself, feeling a strange thrill as he told how pure, how
innocent, how artless and beautiful she was, and asked if Lucy feared
aught from his association with her.
"If you do," he wrote, "you have but to say so, and though I am
committed, I will extricate myself in some way rather than wound you
in the slightest degree."
It would be some time ere an answer to this letter could be received,
and until such time Guy could not honorably hear Maddy's lessons as he
had agreed to do.
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