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"Yes; the housekeeper said I must, so I did. But " She glanced up for a moment at Addie's picture and broke off. Then she held up a letter which she had in her hand. "Do you know anything of Lord Southend?" she asked. "I've heard Mr Iver and Mr Neeld speak of him. That's all." "He writes to say he knew Lady Tristram and and Harry, and hopes he'll know me soon." "That's very friendly."
"I should think the fish had recovered the shock," said Lady de la Poer, smiling; "but as to the lilies, I should be glad to be sure you had done yourself as little harm as you have to them." "Oh no," said Kate, "I'm not hurt if Aunt Barbara won't be terribly angry. Now I wouldn't mind that, only that I've spoilt Addie's birthday, and all your day. Please, I'm very sorry!"
And there was Addie, a cheerful black- clad person in a crackling white apron, coming and going with muffins and bacon, and Toy, who was a young cousin of Hee, the cook, and who padded softly in Addie's wake, making himself generally useful.
It was always cropping up and being mentioned as though it were something exceedingly meritorious. "And in poor Addie's case of course there well, there wasn't," proceeded Lady Evenswood with a sigh. "So Robert feels that it might be thought " "The people with consciences would be at him, I suppose," said Southend scornfully. "But if the marriage came off " "Oh, I see!" cried the Imp.
I've been burning to get away these seven years, and as Northmoor actually seems capable of taking my boys, my last tie is gone. I'm only afraid he'll bore them with too much Sabbatarianism and temperance. He is just the cut of the model Sabbath-school teacher, only he vexes Addie's soul by dashes of the Ritualist. 'Well, said Mrs. Bury, 'the excellent Mr. Woodman is capable of improvement.
I believe that you are in love with him," said Lottie solemnly. The color rushed to Addie's face when her vaguely tender sentiments, indefinite as Horace's attentions, were described in this startling fashion. "Indeed, I'm nothing of the kind," she said hurriedly. "Pray don't talk such utter nonsense, Lottie. If you have nothing more sensible to say, you had better hold your tongue."
Pike was an old resident of Alton and had known all the Clarks. He grunted as if he had heard that song before. "That's what they used to say of her mother, Addie Clark," he remarked, remembering Addie's superior air towards his son. "Well," his manager continued, "I see that trust company's got its signs up all over the Field."
But the shadow came back: "It's no use. Addie's prettier than I ever shall be: I must be second all my life. Second! If I can't be A 1, I'd as soon be Z 1000! I won't go about to be a foil to her. I'd ten times rather race with Robin; and I will too! They sha'n't coop me up and make a young lady of me!" She caught the flash of her indignant glance in the glass and paused. "Those eyes of yours!"
The fire was beginning to burn low, and the girl was fearful lest at the end of the hymn that was being sung, some one should make a move to go back to the encampment. As soon as she could Addie began: "Shall we gather at the river?" The other voices took up the hymn. No one noticed that Addie's voice soon faltered and was still.
He used his fists and fingernails to good purpose and pulled Addie's hair until it presented a ludicrous appearance of disarrangement. Realizing that the boy's actions might prove harmful to his cause if this affair should ever be contested in the courts, Miss Ladd decided to take a hand and do what she could to pacify the young heir who had suddenly been transformed into a veritable wildcat.
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