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'Miss Wych, she began after a while, 'my dear, you have had no breakfast. 'I want none. 'But you will have some lunch? 'No. 'My dear, you must, said Mrs. Bywank. 'You will be sick, Miss Wych. 'Don't you say "must" to me, Byo! said the girl impetuously. But then she started up and flung her arms round Mrs.

The gentleman touched his ungloved hand to Wych Hazel's little buff gauntlet; then apparently preferred some request which was not immediately granted; so gestures seemed to say. Finally he held out his hand again; and she took from her apron a flower and placed in it; and it looked as if fingers and flower were taken together for a second. It was a pretty scene; and yet Mrs. Bywank sighed.

'What nonsense! said Hazel, knitting her brows. 'Why, I can pay that! Tell her so, please, will you? And tell her to send Trüdchen down to Chickaree for Mrs. Bywank and me to cure her up. She will never get well here. Rollo gave a swift bright look at his companion, and then made three leaps up the bank to the cottage door.

So passing swiftly to the old housekeeper's chair, and laying both hands on her shoulders to keep her in it, Hazel stooped down to kiss her; and then straightening herself up like a young arrow, she gave from behind Mrs. Bywank a demure good-morning to Mr. Rollo.

Bywank tells me, he said, 'that you have been eager all summer for the riding you could not have. You must forgive her, she cannot help talking of you. Will you do me the honour to let Jeannie Deans stand in your stable for the present, and ride her with whomsoever you please to honour in that way. There was a little inarticulate cry of joy at that, then timidly, 'But, Mr. Rollo

Bywank, bidding her on her peril to be in order to receive you this evening. Mrs. Bywank and I are old acquaintances, he said, looking at Wych Hazel. 'Dear Mrs. Bywank! how good she used to be. I haven't seen her but once since I left home. I'm sure you have a great many worse acquaintances, Mr. Rollo. 'I am at a loss to understand how you can be sure of that. But I have some better.

And it is almost like going to a pythoness', added Rollo thoughtfully; 'she is so cut off from the world and its people. They were almost at Mr. Falkirk's cottage. Rollo was silent a moment, then said, 'May I ask Mrs. Bywank to shew me hospitality again to-night? I don't want to go home. 'Mrs. Bywank will be only too glad, said Wych Hazel. 'The little tower room always goes by your name, Mr.

'And since then? said her hearer, after another pause in which he seemed to have forgotten himself. 'Since then, said Mrs. Bywank, 'there have been balls and picnics and dinners enough to take one's breath away. But it don't seem to me she can enjoy them much she comes home so often with a sort of troubled look that I can't understand.

Maryland held the position officially when there was nobody at Chickaree, I used to go nutting in your woods and fishing in the same brook which will, I hope, give me some trout to-day; and when I was thoroughly wetted with a souse in the water, or had torn my clothes half off my back in climbing to the tops of the trees, I used to carry my fish ad my difficulties to Mrs. Bywank.

Now, she's been wild to ride all summer, and a dozen wild to have her; and Mr. Falkirk has never let her go once. And so long as he does let her go and dance with the same people, I don't for my part see why. 'Perhaps he does, said Rollo, rather dryly. 'But I have made the requisite declarations in presence of Mr. Falkirk and Dr. Maryland, and am legally qualified to act, Mrs. Bywank.