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"Very good. Now we can go on with Becky Sharp." "That's it, my lord, is it? Where was I? oh, Sir Pitt Crawley...." And then the reading was continued, till tea portended, and Irene went away to capture her visitors. All the sting of his darkness came upon him in its fulness as he heard that voice on the stairs.
I tried to show him that now that the thing is done we might as well accept it. But he wouldn't listen. If he keeps it up like this, I don't want Truxton to come back to lunch. I had hoped that he might bring Mary with him She's his wife, Becky and I've got to love her " "Aunt Claudia," Becky came over and put her arms about the pitiful black figure, "you are the best sport ever "
There's things going on at a circus all the time. I'm going to be a clown in a circus when I grow up." "Oh, are you! That will be nice. They're so lovely, all spotted up." "Yes, that's so. And they get slathers of money most a dollar a day, Ben Rogers says. Say, Becky, was you ever engaged?" "What's that?" "Why, engaged to be married." "No." "Would you like to?" "I reckon so. I don't know.
"You wretch! don't you know that I intend to go with you," Becky replied. "Besides, you're different. You go as General Tufto's aide-de-camp. We don't belong to the line," Mrs. Crawley said, throwing up her head with an air that so enchanted her husband that he stooped down and kissed it. "Rawdon dear don't you think you'd better get that money from Cupid, before he goes?"
"Randy," she was a bit breathless, "here we are, Mr. Dalton and I. I saw you on the ridge. You have no idea how tall your shadow seemed " She was talking in that clear light voice which was not her own. Dalton said sullenly, "Hello, Paine." And Randy's heart was singing, "She called me." The three of them walked to the house together. Becky had insisted that she must go back to her guests.
One day as Becky came to rest a few minutes and shell peas, Emily put down her book to help; and as the pods flew, she said, nodding toward the delicate ferns that grew thickly all about the trough, the rock, and the grassy bank, "We have these in our greenhouse, but I never saw them growing wild before, and I don't find them anywhere up here.
It was not until the closing hour five o'clock that Lizzie thought of her again, and then she burst out to Matty and Josie Kelly, as they were leaving the store together, "Where do you suppose Becky Hawkins is? She hasn't been here to-day, and she's always here, and so punctual." "Mebbe she's taken it into her head to leave," answered Matty. "'T would be just like her; she's that independent."
We'll have Prime and his wife here for dinner to-night, and drive them out somewhere this afternoon. I remember Mark Prime well. I played golf with him one season at Del Monte. How did you happen to know him, Becky?" Becky told of the Major's sojourn to King's Crest. The Copes made separate plans for the afternoon. "If I can't have you to myself, Becky," Cope complained, "I won't have you at all "
Yet he had tried to do the best that he could for Becky. He had felt that she must not be bound by a tie that was no longer needed to protect her from Dalton. She was safe at 'Sconset, with the Admiral and her new friends the Copes. He envied them, their hours with her. He was desperately lonely, with a loneliness which had no hope. He worked intensively.
"Thar is them ez does," he said diplomatically. Cynthia spoke promptly with more vivacity than usual, but in her customary drawl and apparently utterly irrelevantly: "I never in all my days see no sech red-headed gal ez that thar Becky Stiles. She's the red-headedest gal ever I see." And Cynthia once more was silent. Jacob resumed, also irrelevantly:
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