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"Surely there are telegraph lines and cables," spoke Belle. "There are," the hotel clerk informed them, "but there are so many small islands hereabouts, into the harbor of any one of which the ship may have put, that it would be impossible to say where it was. And not all the islands have means of communication. So I beg of you not to worry, Senoritas. Surely they are safe."
There, you know my company, and what took place.’ ‘Was there no one else?’ said Belle. ‘You are mighty curious,’ said I. ‘No, none else, except a poor simple mechanic, and some common company, who soon went away.’ Belle looked at me for a moment, and then appeared to be lost in thought—‘America!’ said she, musingly—‘America!’ ‘What of America?’ said I. ‘I have heard that it is a mighty country.’
Her eyes were blue; and her hair, which was light brown, was slightly confined under a plain muslin cap, tied round with a black ribbon; a white linen gown and plain lawn handkerchief composed the remainder of her dress; and in this simple attire, she was more irresistibly charming to such a heart as Temple's, than she would have been, if adorned with all the splendor of a courtly belle.
Indeed the twins seemed more alarmed than did Cora, but then they were not used to brothers, and did not realize how many things may happen and may not happen, to detain young men on a summer day or even a summer night. "Oh dear!" sighed Belle, "I have always dreaded the water.
We should like to know him, and it's only a proper compliment to you." Meg colored, but a mischievous fancy to tease the girls made her reply demurely, "You are very kind, but I'm afraid he won't come." "Why not, Cherie?" asked Miss Belle. "He's too old." "My child, what do you mean? What is his age, I beg to know!" cried Miss Clara.
I can't manage that! I can never look through anything without covering up one eye with my hand." "Then I think you had better be contented with your own charming eyes, ma belle" said I, nervously. "How do you like your bouquet?" Josephine sniffed at it as if she were taking snuff, and pronounced it perfect. Just then the opera began.
Once, when a sigh escaped her as she was busy about the room, she looked apprehensively at him, and, as she feared, encountered a glance from which nothing could escape. She now felt that her assumed cheerfulness deceived him so little that, were it not for Belle, she would wholly forego the effort, and end the long, miserable day in her own room.
"Do you want it?" asked Cora pointedly, for Lottie had been rather taken up with Jack, of late. "Oh, I don't know," answered the girl. "Of course the boys are nice, and " "'Handsome is as handsome does," quoted Belle. "But that doesn't happen to be the boys." "How do you know?" asked Bess. "I just had a glimpse of them through the bushes.
Hollowell and the children doted on the sea, he said. "Wouldn't the torpedo station make up for it?" Henderson asked. "Hardly. But it shows the change of a hundred years. Only, isn't it odd, this personal dropping back into an old situation? I wonder what she was like?" "The accounts say she was the belle of Newport. I suppose Newport has a belle once in a hundred years. The time has come round.
Jewel's attention was as unwinking as Anna Belle's, as she listened to the names. "Anna Belle ought to have first choice because she's the youngest. Then I'll have next, and you next. Anna Belle chooses The Quest Flower; because she loves flowers so and she can't imagine what that means." "Very well," returned Mrs. Evringham, smiling and settling herself more comfortably against a tree trunk.
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