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"Were you at least happy in those days, Alice?" "You know I am always happy, Richard." "Oh yes, yes; I know your philosophy. But I meant happy with me, through me?" She stroked her delicate nose thoughtfully. The mocking expression about the corners of her mouth became accentuated. "I hardly think so, Richard," she said after an interval.
Alice joined him in the laugh over the judge's shortcoming. "He's a regular old dear!" she said. "Ah, yes; if he was only forty years younger, Alice if he was only forty years younger!" the colonel sighed. "I like him better the way he is," said she. "Where did that boy ever hear tell of Marcus Aurelius?" he wondered. "I don't know." She shook her head.
But no one, not even her brother, knew it, and only Aunt Susan suspected, and she wisely kept her counsel, hoping that all would come right in the end. The proposed change did not seem to disturb her much, although Alice noticed that she was more quiet than ever and avoided that subject. "I'm ready an' willin' to go if you think best," she said; "and I'll do my best as long as I can.
"I remember; that was when you gave out that you had gone to see your aunt." "I found Alice seriously ill. I won't detain you further than to say that I did not leave her until she was completely restored, until my long cherished feelings had found utterance, and we were bound by ties that nothing but death will divide." "Really, you are growing sentimental. The waters verily are moved."
"And in the Park," she added, "we always have new wall-paper at the beginning of every century it's a local ordinance!" "Alice," called her mother, tartly, "take your foot away from that rug. And don't annoy me about that worn breadth; you know very well I've tried everywhere to match it. And don't imagine, either, that I'm going to bundle my wedding presents out of sight for you or anybody else."
"Whoo-ee!" she cried in perfect ecstasy, as we paused in breathless admiration. "Clear the track there, old folks young folks! fer Mary Alice Smith and David Mason Jeffries is come to town!" O what a day that was!
For a few moments he sat in silence, his eyes bent upon the ground, while Jane held the little locket in her hand, turning it over and over in an endeavor to find some further clue that might lead to the identity of its original owner. At length a simple explanation occurred to her. The locket had belonged to Lord Greystoke, and the likenesses were of himself and Lady Alice.
"Could he have stolen the patent?" cried Alice, when the excitement had quieted down. "We can't tell until Russ comes home," replied her father. "I'll leave our door ajar, and we can hear if anyone goes into the Dalwood rooms. As soon as some of them return we will tell them what has taken place."
It's been all a mistake; all wrong." "That is no news," she said wearily. "You discovered that long ago." He looked out of the door across the warm fields again; he lifted his eyes to that mountain road; he looked down at her. "I haven't any hope left now, Alice. Let's be plain with each other. We've always been plain, but let us be plainer still.
So Lulu and Jimmie bowed once, and Alice bowed three times, and when they asked why she did that she said you must always do things by threes where fairies are concerned. "Now, follow me," called the gold fish; so they swam farther and farther up the part of the pond where they had never before been.
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