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So Aileen used to make Rainbow walk and amble his best, so that all the rest of us, when she did it for fun, had to jog. Then she'd jump him over logs or the little trickling deep creeks that ran down to the main water; or she'd pretend to have a race and go off full gallop, riding him at his best for a quarter of a mile; then he'd pull up as easy as if he'd never gone out of a walk.
He took his banjo in one hand, lifted his cap with the other and, standing so, bareheaded in the moonlight, sang with all the simulated passion and pathos of which he was capable one of the few love songs that belong to the world, "Kathleen Mavoureen"; but he took pains to substitute "Aileen" for "Kathleen."
One day Alexina and Aileen met in San Francisco by appointment and telephoned to James Kirkpatrick, asking him to lunch with them at the California Market. He accepted with alacrity, and laughed genially at their apprehensions. War? War? Not on your life. There'll never be another war. Socialists won't permit it. The kaiser? To hell with the kaiser.
"Let me see it, dear," said Julia. "I dare say it is nothing worth punching about." "There," said Edward. "I've marked it." Julia took the paper, and her eye fell on this short advertisement: AILEEN AROON. DISTRUST APPEARANCES. Looking at her with some anxiety, they saw the paper give one sharp rustle in her hands, and then quiver a little.
Aileen thanked her, and lightly touched her hand. A secret sympathy seemed to have suddenly sprung up between them. Lady Blanche sat stiffly beside her daughter, watching her face. The warm touch of friendliness in Aileen's manner towards Mrs. Delafield seemed only to increase the distance and embarrassment of her own. Julie appeared to be quite unconscious.
Presently again, slow and clear like the tinkle of a streamlet down the rocks, came the words of Aileen Asthore: 'Even the way winds 'Come to my cave and sigh; they often bring 'Rose leaves upon their wing, 'To strew 'Over my earth, and leaves of violet blue; 'In sooth, leaves of all kinds.
Everybody would notice when it was gone. He said I must conceal it anyhow until we unmasked after supper, and then I could pretend I had lost it. He discussed several plans for having me slip it to him, but it was Aileen who insisted we should come here. Mrs. Thornton never opens her boudoir at a party. Everywhere else would be a blaze of light.
The town clock struck twelve. He sighed heavily; it was for the old times, the old days, the old life. It was several months before Aileen saw him. Her close attendance on Mrs. Champney and her avoidance of the precincts of The Gore Maggie complained loudly to Mrs. Googe that Aileen no longer ran in as she used to do, and Mrs.
"My father detained me," said Aileen, seating herself at the table, while her volatile friend put lumps of sugar into the cups, with a tender yet sprightly motion of the hand, as if she were doing the cups a special kindness as indeed she was, when preparing one of them to touch the lips of Aileen. "Naughty man, why did he detain you?" said Miss Pritty.
Though both Aileen and he seemed to like each other, Jim and I never thought there was anything in it, and let them talk and ride and walk together just as they pleased. Aileen always had a good word for Starlight, and seemed to pity him so for having to lead such a life, and because he said he had no hope of ever getting free from it. Then, of course, there was a mystery about him.