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This was a mild thrust at Lady Merivale; but she only smiled sweetly in response. "Still, I think you may safely bet on the 'King'; he's in fine form." Then he turned to his cousin.
Some here know your presence, and it would be better therefore that she did not arrive for some days, as her coming will then seem to be unconnected with yourself. My wife and I will, a week hence, give out that we are going to fetch a cousin of my wife's to stay here with her; and when we return no suspicion will be excited that she is other than she seems.
"Nobody was riding with me." "Your cousin was there?" "No, ma'am." "Who then?" "I had Uncle Darry. I was only riding up and down the dell." "The coachman! And were you riding up and through the quarters all the afternoon?" "No, ma'am." "What were you doing the rest of the time?" "I was going about " I hesitated. "About where?" "Through the place there." "The quarters?
Besides, you do not know her; it is easy enough to talk; very easy to read a chapter in the Bible; but after all there are other things quite as important, and it is more than likely that your cousin is not quite perfect yet." Ester did not know that this was the soothing lullaby of the old Serpent.
Mavick was loud in her praise of Alice to her cousin, and sought to win her confidence, but she was, after all, a little shy of her, and probably would have characterized her to a city friend as a sort of virgin in the Bible. It so happened that day after day went by without giving Philip anything more than passing glimpses of Evelyn, when she was driving with her mother or her governess.
"Still, as you doubt it, you will wish to put the matter to the proof. Therefore, Cousin, take six men with you, enter the reeds and search. In that soft ground it will be easy to follow their footmarks." "It is dangerous, O King," began the prince, for such he was, no less. "And therefore the task will be the more to your taste, Cousin. Go now, and be swift."
A long time ago they had belonged to Cousin Mary, who was quite a big girl now, and she had sent them to Uncle Robert's boy up in Ohio. He learned to waltz in them, and in time sent them to little Agnes in Virginia, who wore them for a year on state occasions, then sent them back to Kentucky to little Cousin Nell.
She had never been in any room like this before, and its lack of comfort, its vulgarity, struck upon her strained nerves like a loud discordant note in music; but its owner looked round complacently and turned the gas a little higher, as he said: "I will go and fetch your cousin. Won't you sit down?"
Not married, and in Saba! But she will be, soon, I suppose." "Perhaps," said I. "Ah! Ah! She is engaged, I see. Who is the happy man?" "Indeed, I don't know," I exclaimed, wishing the inquisitive fellow at the bottom of the Red Sea, with a twenty-four pound shot fastened to his feet. "What has become of your cousin, Mark Haraden? Is he as lively and good-humored as ever?"
"I'll leave it to our cousin Ormond " but Dorothy cut in: "Cousin, it was done in this manner: father lost his timepiece, and the law is that whoever finds things about the house may keep them. So we all ran to the porch where father had fallen off his horse last night, and I think we all saw it at the same time; and I, being the older and stronger "
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