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"Oh, how do you do, Jim?" she cried, nodding her head in friendly welcome. "Do you want to find Cicely she has gone down to the lake to sketch." "Bother!" exclaimed Joan. "Starling is so officious." "You will find our sister in the Temple of Melancholy," said Nancy. "It will be your part to smooth the lines of trouble from her brow." "Oh, coming, coming, Miss Bird!" called out Joan.
"I found a piece of four-leaved clover yesterday," observed Cicely, "so I ought to be lucky. I showed it to Mademoiselle, and she was quite envious. 'Vous aurez la chance!" she said. "How jolly! Have you kept it?" "Rather! I've left it to press between two pieces of blotting-paper, under a pile of books. I'm going to have it put in a locket when I go home."
In fac', sir, I practically insisted that Miss Farmond had just got to come." "Good man!" said Ned. "Come in and tell me the unfortunate circumstances." He bent over Cicely and in a lowered voice added: "Personally I call 'em fortunate so long as they haven't been too beastly for you!"
"It's only well, to say the truth, I am sorry that Maggie is going to-morrow." "You are very fond of her, aren't you?" said Cicely. "Well, yes; that is it, I am," said Merry. "We'll see plenty of her at school, anyway," said Cicely. "I wish she were rich," said Merry. "I hate to think of her as poor." "Is she poor?" asked Cicely. "Oh yes; she was just telling me, poor darling!"
These remarks made to the ladies in general really did help in the good work, for, while Ralph was talking in this way, Cicely bent more earnestly over her sewing and stitched faster. Until now, she had never thought much about Miss Bannister; but, without intending it, or in the least desiring it, she began to think a good deal about her, even when Ralph was not there.
Talbot mention the name Cicely than Master Heatherthwayte looked up and said "Methinks it was I who spake that name over this young lady in baptism." "Even so," said Richard. "She knoweth all, but she hath ever been our good and dutiful daughter, for which we are the more thankful that Heaven hath given us none other maid child."
If he liked her voice, she liked his, and if he admired her nice shoulders, she was equally pleased with his great broad ones. Just the old craft of nature once more, as happens at every time in the year and turns all seasons into spring. "I'm called Cicely," she said "'Sis' for shortness. And what be you called?" "My name's Samuel Borlase," he answered, and she nodded. "I'll remember," she said.
And he knew many things about Cicely Farrell that Nelly Sarratt had not discovered; things that alternately softened and enraged him; things that kept him now, as for some years past, provokingly, irrationally interested in her. He had once proposed to her, and she had refused him. That was known to a good many people. But what their relations were now was a mystery to the friends on both sides.
At all events, there was nothing now to be done with the telegram, so she put it on the shelf, and set about her preparations for dinner, which had been very much delayed. Ralph had gone off fishing; but, before starting, he had put Mrs. Browning to the gig and had told Cicely that as soon as her work was finished, she must take her mother for a drive.
"Well," said Cicely, demurely, "if your sister really thinks we should marry, I suppose I suppose we ought to do it." Miriam's eyes flashed from one to the other, then there were two girlish cries and a manly laugh, and in a moment Miriam and Cicely were in each other's arms, while Ralph's arms were around them both.
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