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Claudia cared for Cornelia in a manner, and believed it was a real kindness to tear the poor girl away from her solitary broodings and plunge her into the whirl of the world of Roman fashion. Claudia had become an intimate of Clodia, the widow of Quintus Metellus, a woman of remarkable gifts and a notoriously profligate character. "The Medea of the Palatine Hill," Cicero had bitingly styled her.
His character was gradually writing itself out in his countenance. That he was watching his own career with deeper and deeper interest, that he continually 'heard his days before him, and cared to hear little else, might have been hazarded from what was seen there.
"No," said the girl. The old man threw a swift glance at her. Boy had stuck her toes in again. He knew all the symptoms of old and made no effort to overcome them. She was growing into a woman, Boy was. That was the young man. A while back she cared not a rap for all the men in creation. The old man made a mental note for reference to Ma. "Albert can ride her," said the girl.
That she should leave him willingly, that doing so she should refuse to grant him so small a favor, when almost all other women her own pretty cousins among them had denied nothing he chose to ask, it was incomprehensible! "By Jove! I never cared so much for a little thing in my life as her leaving me and not caring to kiss me. I swear, I'm a perfect baby about her! Little, truthful, honest soul!
In a little time, in a few minutes, even, he would not dread a few words so much; but now he couldn't quite bear to be told he had found his friend only to lose him, the man he had always most needed, wanted, loved. Everybody had always cared for Harkless, wherever he went. That he had always cared for everybody was part of the reason, maybe.
While she was thus engaged Beauchene drew Mathieu on one side. "I say," he began, laughing, "why did you not tell me that everything was finished over yonder? I met the pretty blonde in the street yesterday." Mathieu quietly replied that he had waited to be questioned in order to render an account of his mission, for he had not cared to be the first to raise such a painful subject.
It was intolerable, no doubt, to her pride to have been betrayed into those tears, to have seen through them the same immovable countenance which had yielded to none of her arguments and cared nothing for her anger, and to have him finally compare her to his own boys whom his own hands corrected the blubbering of schoolboys to the tears of a queen!
If she cared for him really cared she would grant his request; and if she cared, why then, not only reawakened loyalty, but some very deep acquiescence in his own nature, would keep him beside her, and to-night would see them as affianced lovers.
After that he sees only Tita sitting there with Hescott beside her he whispering to her, and she to him. He stops in his rapid walk, and pulls himself together: he must have time time to think, to control himself, to work it all out. Things seem to come back to him with a strange clearness. He remembers how Tita had once said to him that she never cared to kiss anyone except Margaret.
And when the light was reached, the shipwrecked people were soon made comfortable and cared for by Grace and Mrs. Darling, and nine lives were thus saved by the determination of a single girl.
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