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But his eyes were always on Celia, and when she spoke, he listened. As was to be expected, that morsel of femininity improved every opportunity to parade her conquest.
She was a demure little coquette, Celia Genoine, Professor Genoine's daughter, if you will recollect. "Ah," I hear you remonstrate, "but she was a woman." Just so. Fifteen and twenty-two is usually the way of calf loves. I invested her with all the glow and colour of first youth, and in her presence became a changed being.
This is especially true of Celia Thaxter, whose life was divorced from worldliness, while it was instinct with the keenest enjoyment of life and of God's world. She liked to read her poems aloud when people asked for them; and if there was ever a genuine reputation from doing a thing well, such a reputation was hers.
Children are even more reticent than adults about revealing their inner lives, and Philip would not, even to Celia, have confessed the splendid dreams about his career that came to him that day in the hickory-tree, and that occupied him a great deal. "Of course," said this wise child, "but that's nothing. I mean, what are you going to do?
Celia was warm and tired, and the dim, cool room was grateful to her as she sat resting in silence while Miss Betty fluttered back and forth. "Perhaps you'll think I'd better mind my own business," she said, returning after a moment's absence, "but here is something I saw in the Gazette. It might be worth trying." Celia knew by heart the advertisement held out to her. "Work at home.
"So I will! and you shall be my little sisters. I never had any, and I'd love to try how it seems;" and Celia took both the chubby hands in hers, feeling ready to love every one this first bright morning in the new home, which she hoped to make a very happy one. Bab gave a satisfied nod, and fell to examining the rings upon the white hand that held her own.
Belle said there was a quarrel, and Aunt Genevieve said, 'We have nothing to do with the Fairs." As he flicked the ash from his cigar, Allan smiled at Rosalind's unconscious imitation of Genevieve's tone. "I see no reason why you should take up other people's quarrels," he said gravely. Then Rosalind told him of her first meeting with Celia, and the incident of the rose.
"We could if we wanted to," replied Danny, in that superior, ardor-dampening way of his. Jerry felt his enthusiasm for the idea oozing out of his bare toes. "I Don't we want to, Danny?" "Oh, yes, let's!" cried Nora eagerly. "I'm tired of ante-over and run-sheep-run and pump-pump-pull-away " "And hidin'-go-seek and tree-tag," interrupted Celia Jane. She turned to Jerry. "How do you play circus?"
A day came when Thomas McLeod and Celia lingered at the end of the latticed "passage." "Sixteen a week isn't much," said Thomas, letting his cap rest on his shoulder blades. Celia looked through the lattice-work and whistled a dead march. Shopping with Aunt Henrietta the day before, she had paid that much for a dozen handkerchiefs. "Maybe I'll get a raise next month," said Thomas.
A fortnight is not a long time in which to prepare the trousseau of a future Marchioness; but, with Lady Gridborough's enthusiastic assistance, Celia did her best; though, it must be confessed, she did not attach so much importance to this matter of the trousseau as it usually demands and receives from the bride elect; in fact, though Lady Gridborough has been described as an assistant, she bore the lion's share of the business, while Celia, as Lady Gridborough expressed it, in homely language, "gadded about, and mooned" with her lover.
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