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"Well, I never!" murmured Dora. "Dick, we had better watch out where we are going." "That's right." They turned toward the dining room. "Dora, you know, as I was saying, that " "Dick Rover, I thought we were going to dinner! Just see the folks! What a crowd! You musn't talk like that here." "Yes, that's true, but " "You really must mind, Dick." She gave him a bright smile.
'Now, my reliance is on you. 'But it must not be on me, Trotwood, returned Agnes, with a pleasant smile. 'It must be on someone else. 'On Dora? said I. 'Assuredly.
"He must have known that there would probably be something of the sort sent home." "Yes, yes. But you know, dear, how keenly he feels everything. These highly-strung, artistic temperaments but I need not tell you; you know Arthur almost as well as I do." Dora answered nothing. It was not the first time that Mrs.
The name over the door, and the aspect of the shop-window, were terribly suggestive, and the fine profile of the Perpetual Curate was just visible within to the keen eyes of his aunt. Miss Dora, for her part, dried hers, and, beginning to see some daylight, addressed herself anxiously to the task of obscuring it, and damaging once more her favourite's chance.
And, after all, what was the tricking of his grandfather out of a few thousands that were really his own? It was a family matter, which should never have been made public at all." "That's what I told father," faltered Dora. "The best thing you can do, Dora, is to mollify Mr. Ormsby. Don't anger him.
"O! we've seen such a nice gentleman!" said Dora, becoming lively under the influence of her soup. "Have you, Dora? Where?" "Sitting on the rocks, taking a portrait of the sea." "What makes you say he was a nice gentleman?" "He had such beautiful boots!" answered Dora, at which there was a great laugh about the table. "O! we must run and tell Connie that," said Harry. "It will make her laugh."
But he showed little emotion; while John, standing shyly on the other side of the room, and the weeping Dora could hardly find words to tell their own story, so overwhelmed were they by those indelible signs upon him of all that he had gone through. He asked them rapidly a number of questions.
"You have a very imperfect view of the subject, yet," said her father; "for you have both been so taken up with the manner, that you have never thought of inquiring into the matter of this letter." "And what is the matter?" said Miss O'Faley. "Form!" continued the father, addressing himself to his daughter; "form, I acknowledge, is one thing, and a great thing in a daughter's eyes." Dora blushed.
Dinner at the castle has been a promiscuous sort of entertainment for the past three or four days, so Dora feels no compunction in declining to go to it.
But you needn't think I'll sit at home "improving" myself: Not I. I'll do that church-work. That girl gave me a lesson this morning, and I'm going again to-morrow. David received the news with satisfaction, remarking heartily that Dora Lomax was a real good sort, and if it weren't for her the Parlour and Daddy would soon be in a fix. He told the story of the Parlour, dwelling on Dora's virtues.
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