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The party was given chiefly for Betty, that she might have plenty of partners at the New Year ball; and although these were mostly young people, there was also a goodly sprinkling of dames and dowagers, who smiled approvingly when Betty was presented to them, before seating themselves at the all-absorbing card-tables.
I can see myself a bent, old man still pestering you with my attentions, and you a sweet, old lady with snow-white hair and pink cheeks, still obdurate still saying no! Oh, Lord, isn't it awful!" He had lifted himself on his elbow, and now sank back on his pillow. Betty paused irresolutely. "Charley " "Yes, dear?" "Can't you be happy without me?" "No." "But you don't try to be!"
The guests were departing and I can truthfully say that I was speeding them. Elsie Hazzard took me off to a remote corner, where a little later on Betty Billy and the two husbands found us. "John, will you ever forgive me?" she said very soberly. "I swear to you I hadn't the faintest idea what it " "Please, please, Elsie," I broke in warmly; "don't abuse yourself in my presence.
"We've always gotten the news of Langhurst from Uncle Job," said Betty. "He settled with the landlord about our rent, and our few odd bits of things; and he was to send us any letter as came from yourself." "And so you've been here ever since?" "Yes. Our John's mother died two years since come Christmas; and then fayther came to live with us.
"It isn't fair for Betty to have it," exclaimed Joyce, "when she wouldn't go to the camp, and she's had it before! It's just too bad!" "We'll all have to be mighty good to her," said the Little Colonel, "for she was so sweet about amusing us. We'll take turns reading to her and entertaining her, for she stayed hours with us in that dark room when she could have been outdoors enjoying herself."
It was one of Aunt Mary's very best days, and there were some things one could say more easily to her than to Aunt Barbara, though Aunt Barbara was what Betty was pleased to irreverently call her pal. "I do wish that I had a talent for something," said Betty. "I can't sing: if I could, I am sure that I would sing for everybody who asked me.
It struck Betty, who was used to taking social events easily, that there was no pleasuring at all in the old village, though people were always saying how gay and delightful it used to be and how many guests used to come to town in the summer. The old Leicester garden was a lovely place on a summer evening.
I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John dined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but he will not hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells me that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money coming to me for it. I took him to my Lord to Mr.
"No letter yet from our Sammul," cried Betty, wearily and sadly, as she came from the mill on a dreary night in the November after her brother's sudden departure. "I thought as how he'd have been sure to write to me. Well, I suppose we must make ourselves content till he's got over the sea. But oh, it'll be weary work till we've heard summat from him."
Sister Sarah and Betty sat by the front windows of the living-room, and Betty obeyed a parting charge to tell her companion "about seeing the Queen and the times when she used to go and see the Prince o' Wales's girls," so that the last of the morning was soon gone. "Such folks has their aches an' pains just like us," commented sister Sarah at last.
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