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Consequently, he was forced to leave her when they finally sought the dining-room, and he was miles away on the other side of the huge apartment at another table. Arethusa found herself next to a perfectly strange youth, a rotund, almost moon-faced individual with eyes that danced good-humoredly behind glasses.
He briefly recounted them in an animated manner, for as he had been little more than a year at sea, everything he had seen and done had the freshness of novelty. He belonged to the gallant Arethusa frigate, which had put into Plymouth from a successful cruise in the Bay of Biscay, where, after capturing several minor prizes of considerable value, she had taken an enemy's frigate of equal force.
She paused a moment and looked at Arethusa over her glasses as if Arethusa were the one to blame for this situation. Although the girl did not dare open her mouth in face of such an expression, she gave a little jump of impatience. It did seem as if Miss Eliza might finish telling It, and tell It straight, in some sort of order, if she were going to tell It at all.
He closed loftily by saying: "You advise me, my dear Arethusa allow me to call you thus for the last time to find a heart worthier and better. It was unkind in you to urge upon me an impossibility. None but Napoleon ever scorned the word impossible." Whether Mr.
She would attend to the providing of a wardrobe for the visit, and that wardrobe would be utilitarian first and foremost, and durable. All of Miss Eliza's purchases had the virtue of durability. Had Arethusa had the spending of the money her outfit might present a very different appearance.
Arethusa sat on a big, smooth stone at the edge of the Branch, under the low-drooping willow tree that leaned far over those clear waters, and absent-mindedly flipped at the water with a long switch broken from the tree. Under the stone it was cool shadow and the rocks on the bottom of the Branch gleamed invitingly green.
"I'll send George in with tea a little later on," said Elinor, "if you would like to have it." Then Arethusa's face clouded somewhat, "But I wanted to have supper up here again!" "Not supper, Arethusa, it's just afternoon tea. I thought perhaps it might help you to get acquainted." That was very different. It might be great fun to have afternoon tea.
Lucinda deliberated for a minute or so as to whether to accept this insult in silence or not, and finally decided to make just one more remark. "I wonder if she’ll send any word to Arethusa ’n’ Mary." "They’ll know soon enough," said Joshua oracularly. "How’ll they know, I’d like to know?" "You’ll write ’em." Lucinda was dumb.
So a little procession started back through that gap in the branches, which Arethusa, had she not been so frightened, might have found for herself without bothering him. He went first, to show the way, and she followed, both on hands and knees. He was out when he heard her scream. "My hair! My hair is all caught! And I can't get it undone at all!"
"But you are making a great big mistake, Arethusa," she could not help adding, "every way, in not taking Timothy while you can." Yet it was amiably said, and did not cause the slightest excitement. Which goes but to prove more surely that Miss Asenath seemed to have missed her calling. "That was such a pretty girl that just went past us, Ross."
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