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She had filled her cabin-box, and was in the act of locking it, when the yacht's screw ceased to throb. The Bella Cuba had stopped. Orders were being shouted up above; and then came a grinding sound as the anchor was slowly dropped. The Countess de Mattos knew that they must be in the harbour of Samoa. She flung open the door of her cabin and stepped out into the saloon.
"So shall I," he cried sturdily. "I shall have a garden, and grow strawberries and gooseberries, and and all sorts of things. Won't it be fine!" "Margery wants a garden too. Margery wants to grow fings." Margery was tugging at Bella's skirt, and dancing with eagerness. "What can Margery do?" asked Bella gently. She was always gentle and kind to her little sister.
The moonlight was on Millicent's face, and Bella, watching her, read something that roused her interest in its expression it was stronger than satisfaction, a deeper feeling not unmixed with pride. She had called and the man she had summoned from the depths of the wilderness had responded.
'I'll leave all the presents behind, and begin again entirely on my own account. That the resolution might be thoroughly carried into practice, she even changed the dress she wore, for that in which she had come to the grand mansion. Even the bonnet she put on, was the bonnet that had mounted into the Boffin chariot at Holloway. 'Now, I am complete, said Bella.
Have I not reason to dread next Tuesday? Up presently after came my sister: to observe, I suppose, the way I was in. She found me in tears. Have you not a Thomas a Kempis, Sister? with a stiff air. I have, Madam. Madam! How long are we to be at this distance, Clary? No longer, my dear Bella, if you allow me to call you sister. And I took her hand. No fawning neither, Girl!
Why," with a sudden clutch, at Bella's thin arm, "couldn't you have come and asked me? Answer me that! Do you hear? Answer me, I tell you!" "I was afraid," stammered Bella. "Afraid? I'll make you afraid of me yet, you young hussy! I'll give you something to make you afraid of me. I s'pose you told her, too, that I treated you so bad you were afraid of me. Did you tell her that, too?
Martha exclaimed. "Two weeks! I had not thought it that long." "Where's Annie? and Margaret?" Bella asked. Martha shrugged her voluminous shoulders with voluminous and forgiving affection for her wayward, matronly daughters who left their children in her care for the afternoon.
Bella saw only her poor father's sad fate a helpless cripple for the rest of his life, tied to the house, and with nothing to occupy his time, he who had always been so strong and active, who had never been able to stay patiently indoors for an hour, unless he had something to do. And she felt that her heart would break with her sorrow and love for him.
On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. Simultaneously with this discovery on her part, her father discovered her, and invoked the echoes of Mincing Lane to exclaim 'My gracious me! He then came cherubically flying out without a hat, and embraced her, and handed her in.
"Very dismal, my child, until God sent me another little daughter to lighten the grief that was pressing me down; now the clouds are parting, and the sunlight comes beaming through, and I think we may be very happy, my darling, if we will. But here comes Mr. Colbert. Let us go to meet him, he used to love dear Bella, and will be glad to see you, I know." Mr.
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