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"Oh, papa and I understand one another," affirmed Katherine with great confidence, and now for the first time during this conversation the young girl turned her face away from the window, for the door had opened to let in the culprit. "Now, Amhurst, what is the meaning of this?" cried Sabina before her foot was fairly across the threshold. All three women looked at the newcomer.
"I I think you are laughing at me, Miss Amhurst, and indeed I don't wonder at it, and I I am afraid you consider me even more persistent than the cashier. But I did want to tell you how sorry I am to have caused you annoyance." "Oh, you have not done so," replied the girl quickly. "As I said before, it was all my own fault in the beginning." "No, I shouldn't have taken the gold.
"It was all my own fault in so carelessly leaving the money. Some time, when less in a hurry than I am at the present moment, I will tell you how I came to make the blunder." Meanwhile the manager caught and interpreted correctly an imploring look from the Lieutenant. "Before you go, Miss Amhurst, will you permit me to introduce to you my friend, Lieutenant Drummond, of H.M.S. 'Consternation."
After leaving New York the girls spent a day at Haverstock, where Dorothy Amhurst bought a piece of land as shrewdly as if she had been in the real estate business all her life.
The Duke was conscious of the part which he was forced to take by what he said to Lord Lothian and to Lord Amhurst; and this, as I am told, is the third time that his Grace has been compelled to make these amendes honorables. I am glad to have heard this, because so much mechancete deserves this humiliation.
And now, Miss Amhurst, since I have confessed my fruitless wanderings through Bar Harbor, may I not have the pleasure of calling upon you to-morrow or next day?" Her eyes were dreamily watching the dancers.
"Now, Jack, I'm going to take you to the smoking-room, but you'll have to behave yourself as you walk along the deck. I won't be made a spectacle of before the crew." "Come along, Drummond," said the Captain, "and bring Miss Dorothy with you." But Drummond stood in front of Dorothy Amhurst, and held out his hand. "You haven't forgotten me, Miss Amhurst, I hope?"
"Oh, no, but I do not wish you to feel that simply because we met casually the other day you are compelled to waste your evening sitting out." "Indeed, Miss Amhurst, although I should very much like to have the pleasure of dancing with you, there is no one else here that I should care to ask.
Some dress materials that rested on a gypsy table were swept aside by the impulsive Katherine, and the table, with the tray upon it, was placed at the right hand of Dorothy Amhurst. When the servant left the room, Katherine sidled to the long sewing table, sprang up lightly upon it, and sat there swinging a dainty little foot.
I am sorry to add that the simplicity of such a character was found to form no apology for his guilt as a rebel, and that he was condemned and executed. Nicholas Amhurst, a noted political writer, who conducted for many years a paper called the Craftsman, under the assumed name of Caleb D'Anvers.
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