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Soon after passing beneath the lamp mademoiselle vanished into a doorway. Edith perceived to her joy that at this point there was no group of loungers. Indeed, for a few yards the street was empty. Keeping her eyes sedulously fixed upon the exact spot where the Frenchwoman disappeared, she reached the door, and, after a moment's hesitation, stepped lightly into the interior darkness.
It may be well supposed that much of the good lady's speech failed Lord Evandale's ears, which were then employed in listening for the light step of Edith. His absence of mind on this occasion, however natural, cost him very dear.
People who want everything done at once must expect to pay promptly." "Your bill is much too large much larger than you gave us any reason to suppose it would be," said Edith. "I've only charged you regular rates, miss, and you put me to no little inconvenience besides." "That's not the point.
Here Nina paused, too much exhausted to talk longer, and when about dark Arthur came in, he found her asleep with Edith at her side, while upon her face and about her nose there was a sharp, pitched look he had never seen before.
He's took more pains with this chamber than with all the rest, and when I asked what 'twas for, he said it was his "den," where he could hide if he wanted to." "Don't go," whispered Edith, pulling at Grace's dress, "Mr. St. Claire might not like it." But Grace felt no such scruples, and was already across the threshold, leaving Edith by the door.
"He knows so many people I don't," she thought, but she said nothing. No one noticed her silence or Maurice's, either! The doctor, and Morton, and the handsome bride, were listening to Edith, amused, apparently, at her crudity and ignorance. "Oh yes," Eleanor heard her say; "Eleanor's voice is perfectly fine, father says. I'm not musical.
"Of course," pursued Miss Stuart, going on with the web of rose-colored knitting in her lap, "being the daughter of the house, and considering the occasion, and everything, I suppose a few more dances than usual were expected of him. Still, I don't believe he would have asked me six times if Edith! how often did he dance with you?"
"I want to lunch with you to-morrow," he said. "Do let me. I love to hear you talk. Just to be near you makes a better man of me. But you can make anything you like of me; you know you can. May I come?" Edith glanced tip at him and smiled, and the young man, taking this for acquiescence, bowed and withdrew in triumph, making way for Colonel Colquhoun.
"My father dead! oh, this is heavy news. Half my new joy is withered now. Prithee let me see my brother Arthur he will know me; he will know me and console me." "He, also, is dead." "God be merciful to me, a stricken man! Gone, both gone the worthy taken and the worthless spared, in me! Ah! I crave your mercy! do not say the Lady Edith " "Is dead? No, she lives."
Then, after a little further delay, during which she seemed to be collecting her thoughts, she began: "I was governess once, Edith dearest, in your dear mamma's family. She was quite a little thing then. All the rest were harsh, and treated me like a slave; but she was like an angel, and made me feel the only real happiness I knew in all those dreary days.
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