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The Bonnivels' worn cane chairs somehow found places on Joyce's veranda, while a new half-dozen rockers, of quaint and comfortable shape, took their places through the pretty living rooms next door. "I feel," said Joyce gaily, "so much more respectable than if my things were all new.
He tore Joyce away the word is not an exaggeration for she fought him at every point and only yielded to positive compulsion. He put her into a fashionable school and bade her have nothing more to do with those 'down-at-the-heel Bonnivels. It was a trifle hard after the love and care we had lavished upon her." "It was beastly!" muttered Larry between his shut teeth.
Thus the two homes overlooked park and buildings, exactly facing the Social house, though at a distance, while the Works at the other extreme of the village were half hidden by intervening buildings, and soon would be quite overshadowed by the many trees lately set out. These were the homes which Joyce had built for herself and the Bonnivels.
The Bonnivels and I have just moved into the two houses at the other end of the park, and we want to get acquainted with our neighbors." Rachel's cool fingers dropped into Joyce's eager jeweled ones, and fell away again. "You will find but a small set of your kind of people here, Miss Lavillotte. There's the doctor's family, Mr. Dalton's, and one or two others.
The Bonnivels were at dinner, one evening, somewhat before the events related in the past few pages, and were discussing in lively tones a long letter which had come from Leon that day Leon Bonnivel, the absent son and brother who was in a ship of war off the South Atlantic coast. He had just been advanced to a first lieutenancy, and the family were jubilant in consequence.
Joyce was called into the city by the Lozcoski affair the very next day. She was accompanied by George Dalton, also by a tablet filled with memoranda. There were things to buy for the Bonnivels, the Hapgoods, and for her own household. There was counsel to secure for Nate, some business to transact with Mr. Barrington, and, lastly, the Lozcoski matter.
Joyce had bought a selected lot of good reading matter in paper covers, with which to start a circulating library, and with the assistance of the Bonnivels, was getting it in shape. In the absence of a catalogue the books were now numbered on the backs, and when issued the corresponding number, on a slip of paper marked the vacant place on the shelf.
An amused twinkle grew in his honest eyes as he gravely responded to the glance with the words, "No, Miss Joyce, I'm not tired nor cold where next?" "If you are certain, Gilbert; but it was a good while, and" "It's mild and pleasant to-day, Miss Joyce." "Well, it's good of you to think so. Then drive to the Bonnivels, and I won't be so long this time." "Take all the time you want, Miss Joyce."
For the Bonnivels had known hard times in their southern home, when Dorette and Leon were little, and his appointment to the Naval school had been the first lightening of their fortunes, Dorette's marriage to an honest young fellow in a good situation the second. That Madame Bonnivel and Camille were never allowed to feel their dependence upon Mr. and Mrs.
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