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"An' as them as left her know where she is," said Mary Carew, the click quite decided again in her tones, "if they want her, they know where to come and get her but you hear to what I say, Norma, they'll never come!"
Shall she be unworthy of the names of Trelawney, Killigrew, Boscawen, Carew, Tresize, and Trevanion? Never!" To Bob's chagrin he was led to a seat close to the platform. Evidently the man who took him there, wanted him, as the son of one who had been, perhaps, the most respected man in the town, to have a place of honour. In a few minutes the audience was singing patriotic songs.
Yet to herself she was forced to admit that if any one asked her why she was exasperated, the only reason she could give would be "Because Pollyanna is so glad" and even Mrs. Carew would hardly like to give an answer like that. To Della, however, Mrs. Carew did write that the word "glad" had got on her nerves, and that sometimes she wished she might never hear it again.
"Yours faithfully, "Lydia Carew." There was a long pause, during which there was no sound in the room except the ticking of the clock and the munching of shrimps by the ex-champion. "Good news, I hope, Cashel," said Mrs. Skene, at last, tremulously. "Blow me if I understand it," said Cashel. "Can you make it out?" And he handed the letter to his adopted mother.
"Just so," interrupted the young painter; "she got her way, I know. But with respect to the younger lady, Mrs. Charles Carew, what was she like, and what did people say of her?" "Well, not much good, I reckon. What could they say of a school-mistress who marries her pupil?" "A school-mistress, was she?" said Yorke, in a strange husky voice. "We never heard that in London."
We gave him some tea, and he left us some interesting papers, if you would care to have them. He seemed rather interested in you!..." and Stanley looked keenly into his face. "In what way?" Carew pulled hard at his beloved pipe and spoke with studied carelessness. "Your name cropped up about something, and he wanted to know if you were a Fourtenay-Carew."
Our Carew would have given the same reply had twice that income been suggested to him, and been applauded for the gallant answer. The hint of any necessity for curtailment would probably have caused him to double his expenditure forthwith, though, indeed, that would have been difficult to effect.
Mr. Carew being in the city of Exeter with his wife, and, having visited his old friends there, he walked to Topsham, about three miles distant, leaving his wife in Exeter.
Carteret and Miss Carew met at dinner time, they continued to wait in vain for Molly. The servants hunted for her, Mrs. Carteret called up the front stairs, and Miss Carew went as far as the little carpenter's shop opening from the greenhouse to find her. It was a dark night, and there was nothing that could have taken her out of doors, but that she was out could not be doubted.
"We'll share her keep between us alike, Mary Carew," declared Norma, haughtily, with a real, not an affected toss, of the frizzed head now, "what is your charge, is mine too, I'd have you know!" "Sure, an' we'll all do a part for the name of the house," said Mrs. O'Malligan, "an' be proud." And the other ladies agreeing to this more or less warmly, the matter was considered as settled.
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