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Doris' face was a gleam of delight. "And I am glad to come. I was beginning to feel dreadfully lonesome without Betty. I ought not when there were so many left," and a bright color suffused her face. "Then there is little James." "And we have no small people." "I never had any over home, you know. And so many people here have such numbers of brothers and sisters. It must be delightful."
"I am sure of it; and you have chosen the right mate," cried the old woman. "You are a sculptor and used to simple things; you need no riches, only a sweet face which may every day rejoice your heart, and that you have found." "There is nowhere a sweeter or a lovelier," said Pollux. "No, that there is not," continued Doris. "First I cast my eyes on Selene.
He would look at his face in the mirror and thank God that she was blind. Doris said that made no difference, but he knew better. It made a difference to eyes that could see, however tolerantly. In Hollister, also, there revived the natural ambition to get on, to grasp a measure of material security, to make money.
Mr Johnson's remarks were interrupted by the appearance of Toby Bluff, who came to summon him on deck. Blue Peter was flying from aloft. In ten minutes afterwards the capstan-bars were manned, the merry pipe was heard, and, a sturdy gang of our crew tramping round, the anchor was hove up, the topsails were let fall, and away the Doris once more glided over the wide sea towards the far west.
"I have done my best," Doris felt sure of this, "my best, and now I must do a bit of trusting. It has been my one daring adventure. It must not fail." After many attempts she wrote and dispatched a letter to George Thornton, simply stating that she was about to send the children to school.
I told him I wanted to know everything, and at once, and, speaking in his rapid, vivacious way, he went on to explain exactly what had occurred. It seemed that when he went and stood by Doris Lorrimer under the clock at Paddington station, she had, as I had told him she probably would, asked him if he were Dick Challoner.
"What you been doin' to yerself?" he gasped. The question was inevitable. Laurie was hatless and disheveled. His coat was torn, and across one pallid cheek ran a deep cut, freshly bleeding. "Fell," he said, tersely. He was breathing hard, as if he had been running. He had not yet looked at Doris, but now he abruptly swung into the little office and emerged, bringing her coat.
Just where proper pride began and improper pride ended she was not quite clear. Anyhow, it would check Betty's party-going this winter. And now all the nice-laid plans had come to grief. Doris stood still, feeling there was something not quite harmonious in the atmosphere. "You were just royal to think of it," said Warren, clasping both arms around Doris. "Uncle Win told me about it.
But you will be wise to think well before you accept your freedom from me. You are in an intolerable position, and I am quite powerless to help you unless you place yourself unreservedly in my hands and give me the right to protect you. It means a good deal, I know. It means, Doris, the sacrifice of your independence. But it also means a safe haven, peace, comfort, if not happiness.
The blinding light began to point the way clearer, now, to the older woman. "It's unheard of," she murmured, "and yet " "I will write to Thornton, offer to take his child," Doris was pleading, rather than explaining. "I think at the first he will agree to the proposal what else can he do? The shock remember, he does not even know that a child is expected!
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