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Winship sighed with deep content as he sank into a chair, his eyes scarcely leaving Helen. He owned himself beat out and glad of a dish of tea; but when Clesta had served him in her scuttling crab fashion, he would stop in the middle of a sentence, with saucer half lifted, to gaze with perplexed, wistful tenderness at his stately daughter.
A minute later Clesta ushered in the man who was to take the trunks, and when I had given him his directions, I asked: "Shall we go, Nelly?" "If ye ain't reconciled to movin' " Mr. Winship began. But Helen answered neither of us. Her eyes were bent upon the floor, and a look, not now of resentment, but of was it fear? had slowly crept upon her face. Her hands were clenched. Darmstetter!
She pushed the proud, pale beauty into a chair, smothering her with kisses and the piles of cushions that seem to add bliss to women's joys and soften all their griefs. "Tired, aren't you?" she purred. "Needed me. Now just you sit and talk with Mr. Burke and I'll pack up your brittle-brae in three no-times. Clesta, where's that imp?"
Darmstetter's death upset her terribly, too. She never will speak of it. But she'll be as right as right with me. Bring her 'round as soon as the man comes for the trunks. You've only to head up a barrel of dishes, quick, 'fore Clesta gets in any fine work smashing 'em."
I'm gittin' too old to manage, mebbe " "Mr. Winship," I said, "Nelly has told you the truth; she doesn't need money; she " "Three thousand will save me!" Helen cried. "I can pay a little to everybody. I can hold out, I can " "Please, Miss the furniture " Behind Clesta appeared two men who gaped at Helen in momentary forgetfulness of their errand.
With a bump against the door, Clesta sidled into the room awestruck and smutched, bearing a tray. "Miss Kitty said," she stammered, "as how I should make tea." And as soon as she had found a resting place for her burden, the frightened girl made a dash for the door. Before Helen had finished drinking, there was a stir in the hall, and then the sound of a familiar voice startled us.
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