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"Oh dear!" cried Margaret, "how happy I should be! I wonder what I should do with it!" Marianne looked as if she had no doubt on that point. "I should be puzzled to spend so large a fortune myself," said Mrs. Dashwood, "if my children were all to be rich without my help." "You must begin your improvements on this house," observed Elinor, "and your difficulties will soon vanish."
But Arethusa had glimpsed the laughter in his quizzical dark eyes. She realized now he had been teasing, so she turned clear away from him to give all her attention to Elinor, who could be more trusted. "Do you know how to dance, dear?" asked Elinor. "Some," replied Arethusa, "Timothy taught me down in the barn. "But Timothy says it isn't a bit wrong, and I just love it!
Stopping at the public telephone in the hall she decided not to use the one in Miss Merton's sitting-room until the owner was at home again she called up Elinor and gave her a brief report. "I'm having a perfectly lovely time," she told her. "And as Doris isn't coming back till next week, I am going to bring someone who has been very nice to me home to supper on Sunday, in her place.
She had no need for speech with Elinor, but she kept giving her hands quick little squeezes in her muff, while now and again they exchanged swift telegraphic glances of appreciation. Bruce swung the door for them, and they passed into a little narrow shop-like place. Judith's eyes were wide and dismayed.
Warren's expression was that of a boy whose way with his first sweetheart is too suddenly favored by parents and guardians, and Rachael could have laughed at his face. "Well," he said without enthusiasm. A week later he told her that he had secured the box, but suggested that someone else than the Valentines be asked, Elinor and Peter, for instance.
It was only eight o'clock, but Miss Campbell, worn out with excitement and fatigue, had already dropped off to sleep in the next room. Nancy was quietly and softly weeping, her face buried in her pillow, and Elinor lay staring into the darkness. Mr.
"Weak and irresolute is man; The purpose of to-day Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away." AFTER an absence of a week, or ten days, Harry returned to Wyllys-Roof, not at all sorry to hear that he was too late to see the Grahams, as they were going to New York the next morning. He was very attentive to Elinor pointedly so.
Hazlehurst and de Vaux passed the night beside the body of their friend; Miss Agnes and Mrs. Van Horne were with the bereaved mother and sisters. Early on the following morning, Mr. Wyllys and Elinor came to take a last look at their young friend. 'Can it indeed be true?
Hazlehurst? what do they look like?" "Very like Portuguese," was the answer. "More than the Americans look like the English?" inquired Elinor. "Far more," said Harry; "but you know there is less difference between the climates of Brazil and Portugal, than between ours and that of England." "For my part," observed Mr.
He made a date with us fellows over a week ago and we've been tracking him in vain for nearly an hour. He never peeped a note about having the dinner here. I thought it was to be at the Ritz and we've been hanging about there for a dog's age. What do you think of it?" Patricia broke in before Bruce or Elinor could reply.
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