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Phyllis' eyes were gleaming as she placed her finger on the words, "Dynamite versus Evangelization," but Ella's eyes did not gleam while she was reading all the words printed beneath the heading. She folded the paper and glanced carelessly at the name at the top of the outside page and said, "Well?" "Was there ever anything so disgraceful?" cried the girl. "Was there every anything so false?"
If you do enter on it you must let me manage all in business-like ways, for I fear that you, like Aun' Sheba, will be inclined toward very loose accounts. You must be willing to take what I feel that you should have, and there must be no generous insubordination. Now you have the exact truth." Ella's lip was quivering and her eyes were filling with gathering tears.
"I must come in and speak to him. If it is only fo' a moment." The bishop looked up and saw Lady Ella's expression. Lady Ella was sitting up very stiffly, listening but not looking round. A vague horror and a passionate desire to prevent the entry of Lady Sunderbund at any cost, seized upon the bishop. She would, he felt, be the last overwhelming complication. He descended to a base subterfuge.
The wrath of Captain Bayley was prodigious; he heaped abusive epithets upon the man of her choice, till Ella's temper rose also. There was a passionate quarrel between father and daughter.
And, though she had sent for him, herself, she felt a glad sort of surprise surging through her heart. The Young Doctor's glance, in her direction, was eloquent. But as his eyes saw the child in Ella's arms his expression became impersonal, again, concentrated, and alert. With one stride he reached Ella's side, and took the tiny figure from her arms.
Immediately behind her, on the same bench, stood Fru Holmbo, magnetised, beautiful as a statue. She no more saw Ella's distress than she did the clock in the market-place. This absolute indifference calmed her, she recovered her self-possession. The neighbourhood of the others, which had been so terrible to her, was of no consequence, so long as they did not perceive anything.
About a year from the period of Ella's becoming a member of the family, the Younkers had removed, as already stated, to what was then considered the "Far West," and had finally purchased and settled where we find them in the opening of our story.
But that wasn't why I came here. Bennie told me that he had a dear little sister. And I came to see her." A change swept miraculously over Ella's cold face. Rose-Marie could see, all at once, that she and her young brother were strikingly alike that Jim was the different one in this family.
I was hastening after, when strong arms held me back, and fingers, trembling with awe and dread, pointed to the object of their terror there among the ruins stood a tall and ghost-like form, whose spectral head seemed to move with a threatening motion for an instant I was paralysed, but Ella's white robes flashed before me, and I broke from their grasp.
But at that Heyl swung his hat above his head, three times, like a schoolboy, and, grasping Ella's plump and resisting arm, marched abruptly away. The first week in June found her back in New York. That month of absence had worked a subtle change. The two weeks spent in crossing and recrossing had provided her with a let-down that had been almost jarring in its completeness.
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