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He had put her there beside him at his meals years before when she was a child. Her mother, too, was inordinately fond of her, and Callum and Owen appropriately brotherly. So Aileen had thus far at least paid back with beauty and interest quite as much as she received, and all the family felt it to be so. When she was away for a day or two the house seemed glum the meals less appetizing.
"Even if nothing else comes of it. A memento, then truly you know." He laid hold of her fingers with his cool, vigorous ones. A year before, even six months, Aileen would have released her hand smilingly. Now she hesitated. Why should she be so squeamish with other men when Cowperwood was so unkind to her?
If these two had been closer friends, quite intimate, they would have discussed the Cowperwoods' social prospects; but as it was, they confined themselves to dull conventionalities. At this moment Aileen came down-stairs for a moment, radiant. Kent McKibben thought he had never seen her look more beautiful.
Here was Aileen brooding over her fate, meditating over her wrongs, as it were; and here was Polk Lynde, an interesting, forceful Lothario of the city, who was perhaps as well suited to her moods and her tastes at this time as any male outside of Cowperwood could be. In many respects Lynde was a charming man.
"Quite enough, thanks. I was about to remark " "Some sugar, Aileen? I beg your pardon yes you were about to say " "Oh! Nothing," replied Edgar, half exasperated by these frequent interruptions, but laughing in spite of himself, "only I'm surprised that sentence of annihilation should be passed on `some people' by one so amiable as you are." "Oh!
Champ an' me was walkin' up an' down the street, an' he was tellin' me 'bout that serenade, an' how you'd give him a rosebud with pepper in it Lord, Aileen, you was a case, an' no mistake! An' I was thinkin', too, what Champ said to me thet very night.
Although the problem of marriage with her was insoluble unless Mrs. Cowperwood should formally agree to give him up a possibility which was not manifest at this time, neither he nor Aileen were deterred by that thought. They were going to build a future together or so they thought, marriage or no marriage.
Van Ostend written her a letter which satisfied her in regard to many things of which she had previously been in doubt; it decided her once for all to speak to Aileen and warn her against any passing infatuation for her nephew. For this she determined to bide her time, especially as Champney's unusual length of absence from Flamsted seemed to have no effect on the girl's joyous spirits.
"Why, I will," said Mamie, struck with wonder at this remarkable development; "but it's silly to do it. I know what she'll say before I tell her, and so do you. You can just bring your things and come. That's all. She'd never say anything or ask anything, either, and you know that if you didn't want her to." Mamie was all agog and aglow at the idea. She wanted the companionship of Aileen so much.
Dawsons; and I saw Aileen give a start who should come next, cheek by jowl with the police magistrate, whom he'd been making laugh with something he'd said as they came in, but Starlight himself, looking like a regular prince their pictures anyhow and togged out to the nines like all the rest of 'em.
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