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That evening when Sylvan and Cora found themselves together for a moment at Rockhold House, the youth said: "Corona Rothsay, the sooner I get my orders and you and I depart for Scalping Creek or Perdition Peak, or wherever I am to be shoveled off to, the better, my dear," said the young soldier. "What do you think of it all now, Sylvan?" she inquired.
It is impossible to read of a first performance at a theatre, or of a horse-race, without finding your name coupled with that of Jenny Fancy, or Cora Pearl, or Ninette Simplon. I should be a very strange husband indeed, if I wasn't proud and delighted. Ah! you are a treasure to the reporters. On the day before yesterday the Baroness Trigault skated in the Bois.
Failing to open the davenport, Henry turned to this; and pressing upon the spring lock, exposed to the view of Madeline, standing near, the pictured face of Cora. Spite of his grievances, the sense of his duty was strong upon him, and he put himself between the girl and the object of her interest. Not so quickly but that she saw, and understood the movement.
"Oh!" cried Cora, and she sat up suddenly, and pulled the cord of the electric light. The flood of radiance from the electric light shone from Cora's room, into that where Belle was, and with the gleam of the modern illumination, Cora's bravery grew apace. "What did you say, Belle?" she asked, now quite wide awake. "Are you ill?" "No, but, oh! I'm so frightened. There's some one in my room!
Cora deputed the old warrior to take the lead, and, as they believed the Tuparas, flushed with victory, would ere long pursue them, they immediately set out on their sad journey to the north. Surrounding Nigel and Constance, they vowed fidelity, promising to obey the last behests of their beloved young chief Tecumah, and to afford them all the support in their power.
"But put your mind at rest the child has every chance of ultimate recovery. The trouble was the wrong treatment. We use purely physical training for that sort of thing." "Could the neglect have been intentional?" asked Cora further. She had in mind the "quack" doctor so long sent to Salveys' by the Roland branch of the family.
If the duke should come on this fool's errand, I shall be far enough out of his reach," thought Cora; but she said no more. The breakfast bell rang out with much clamor, and the old man arose growling. "And now you have cheated me out of my hour with the newspapers by your foolish talk.
I was trying to get some new life into the fight, understand, being afraid it would die natural and leave us to a dull winter. Cora's eyes lighted up with a great hope and she beat it off to the Recorder office to have a piece put in the paper about Dulcie's coming. It was a grand piece, what with Cora giving the points and Edgar Tomlinson writing it.
"But you do not dream of taking Cora out there?" exclaimed Clarence, in pained surprise. "Oh, but I do! She insists on going where I go. She is bent on being a voluntary, unsalaried missionary and school-mistress to the Indians just because Rule died a martyred minister and teacher among them." "She is mad!" exclaimed Mr. Clarence; "mad."
Van Dam terminated sentence and interview with a shrug. Yet Cora had not seen the last of her visitor's stately back before she repented her open championship of Handsome Ludlow. Knickerbocker domination, not conviction, had forced her hand. Since she had hung her banner on the walls, however, she resolved to stand fast, and the following Sunday morning issued an unmistakable declaration of war.
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