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Meyerburg, it's style now'days that you shouldn't know your own language." "Come by grandma to-morrow, Aileen, and upstairs I got in the little box sweet cakes like grandma always keeps for you. Eh, baby?" "Say thank you, grandmother." "Merci bien, grand'maman." And they were off into the stream again, the small white leggings at a smart trot.
Not long after his wife's divorce, and after many trips to and from this new world in which he was now living, these two left Philadelphia together one afternoon in the winter. Aileen explained to her mother, who was willing to go and live with Norah, that she had fallen in love with the former banker and wished to marry him.
They returned them to me as a gift. I accepted the gift as a trust. On the proceeds, as you see, we manage to live comfortably, and I am now conducting a fairly successful business in the old line on a small scale." Mr Hazlit smiled sadly as he uttered the last words. "And the debts, papa, which you told me once were so heavy, do you mean to pay them all?" asked Aileen, anxiously.
If only I had her here, with her arms round my neck, surely I might have found the courage and the mere manliness to extricate both herself and me from these entanglements. Aileen might have released and forgiven one. "No, no! It's all over! I'll go and do my task. You set it me. You sha'n't be ashamed of me there. "Good-bye, Julie, my love good-bye forever!"
"Well, well, what strange things do happen!" said Miss Pritty, resuming her duties at the tea-table. "Sugar, Eddy? And cream? Only to think that Aileen and I have known each other so well, and she did not know that you were my nephew; but after all it could not well be otherwise, for now I think of it, I never mentioned your name to her.
The stub of a tail was marking time to the canine heartbeats. Champney opened the door; the dog scurried out and sprang yelping for joy upon Aileen. "Rag, come here!" The dog's day of judgment was in that masculine command. The little terrier nosed Aileen's hand, hesitated, then pressed more closely to her side. The girl laughed out in merry triumph.
He had then silently taken his departure. "Gone," repeated Aileen, rather sharply; "of course he is, and if he were not, what then? Sure his being dark and rather lightly clothed is not calculated to shock you so much."
Yet there he was, and with him two women, neither of whom, in the speed of passing, could Aileen quite make out. She had her car halted and driven to within seeing-distance behind a clump of bushes. A chauffeur whom she did not know was tinkering at a handsome machine, while on the grass near by stood Cowperwood and a tall, slender girl with red hair somewhat like Aileen's own.
But Ailsa sang on obstinately: "Castles are sacked in war, Chieftains are scattered far, Truth is a fixed star, Aileen aroon." And, glancing back over her shoulder, caught her breath quickly. "Celia! What is the matter, dear?" "Nothing. I don't like such songs just now " "What songs?" "I don't know, Ailsa; songs about war and castles.
"I think we'd better leave early," he remarked to Aileen, after a little while. "This isn't very interesting." They returned to their own home, and Cowperwood to avoid discussion went down-town. He did not care to say what he thought of this as yet. It was previous to a reception given by the Union League that the first real blow was struck at him personally, and that in a roundabout way.
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