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It's a queer name; and yet it seems as if I had heard it before," she said, looking away through the mystic tube into space, and seeing Jupiter with his moons, in a fair round picture framed expressly to her eye; yet sending a thought, at the same time, up and down the lists of a mental directory, trying to place Dakie Thayne among people she had heard of.
"About as frightened as the man is who stands to his gun in the front," said Dakie Thayne. "You never flinched." "They would have thought it was from what I had said," Ruth answered. "And that was another thing from the saying." "You had something to say, Leslie. It was just on the corner of your lip. I saw it." "Yes; but Ruth said it all in one flash.
This in parenthesis, however; it was quite true, as she alleged, that Dakie Thayne had taken up already that chivalrous attitude toward Leslie Goldthwaite which would not let him act otherwise than as her loyal knight, even though opposed to her at croquet. "You'll have enough of that boy," said Mrs. Linceford, when Leslie came in, and found her at her window that overlooked the wickets.
I'm going to finish these properly;" and she dipped and twirled another needle with dainty precision, in the pause between her words. "Have you got a lot of brothers at home, Miss Leslie?" asked Dakie Thayne. "Two," replied Leslie; "not at home, though, now; one at Exeter, and the other at Cambridge. Why?"
"Ah, but that is kingdom come," said Dakie Thayne. It seemed as if the question of "things next" was to arise continually, in fresh shapes, just now, when things next for the Holabirds were nearer next than ever before. "We must have Delia Waite again soon, if we can get her," said mother, one morning, when we were all quietly sitting in her room, and she was cutting out some shirts for Stephen.
Dakie Thayne was making his way, with eyes alight and excited, down a side passage to his post. Then the two actors hurried once more into position; the stage was cleared by a whispered peremptory order; the bell rung once, the tent trembling with some one whisking further out of sight behind it, twice, and the curtain rose upon "Consolation."
But that wasn't the way Chicken Little looked at it. She didn't care much for the bit of dramatic dénouement that had come about by accident, like a story, Elinor said, or the touch of poetic justice that tickled Mrs. Linceford's world-instructed sense of fun. Dakie Thayne wasn't a sum that needed proving.
Walking home through the pines again, Delight and Leslie and Dakie Thayne found themselves preceded and followed along the narrow way. Sin Saxon and Frank Scherman came up and joined them when the wider openings permitted. Two persons just in front were commenting upon the sermon.
Everything need not begin at Westover all at once. But Dakie Thayne broke in. "Did you think of that?" said he. "It's a capital idea." "Ideas are rather apt to be that," said Adelaide Marchbanks. "It is the carrying out, you see." "Isn't it pretty nearly carried out already? It is only to organize what we are doing as it is." "But the minute you do organize!
Rose Ingleside, bright and charming as her name, just a fit flower to put beside our Ladies' Delight, finding out, at once, as all girls and women did, her sweetness, and leaning more and more to the rare and delicate sphere of her quiet attraction, Oliver and Dakie Thayne, these were his family party; but there came to be question about Leslie and Delight. Would not they make six? And since Mrs.
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