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I haven't money enough, and there is no one to give it to me." "It wouldn't hurt Mrs. Campbell to help you a little," returned Jenny. "Why, last term Ella spent almost enough for candies, and gutta-percha toys, to pay the expense of half a year's schooling, at Mount Holyoke. It's too bad that she should have every thing, and you nothing."
Mama and Baby and I have talked this thing all over, Susan," she added casually, "and we want to know what you'd think of coming to live with us?" Susan fixed her eyes upon her as one astounded, not a muscle of her face moved. She never was quite natural with Ella; above the sudden rush of elation and excitement came the quick intuition that Ella would like a sensational reception of her offer.
Hylton gave a sharp, annoyed little laugh: 'Really, my dear, if you can't get up any more interest in it than that, I think it would certainly be wiser to wait! It was more than indifference that Ella felt a wild aversion to beginning the new life that but lately had seemed so mysteriously sweet and strange; she was frightened by it, ashamed of it, but she could not help herself.
"Ella goes everywhere I do," returned Hazel. "What's your doll's name?" "Bernice; I think Bernice is a beautiful name," said Flossie. "So do I," returned Hazel. Then the two children were silent a minute, looking at one another, uncertain how to go on. Hazel was the first to speak. "Isn't it lovely to live with this garden?" she asked. "Yes, aunt Hazel has nice flowers."
They left by the eight-forty train, and I expect they are well under way by this time." "That's quite too bad of Courtland," said Mr. Linton. "I wanted to have a talk with him a rather serious talk." Ella had listened to Mr. Ayrton's account of that little dinner party at the club with white cheeks a moment before they had been red and with her lips tightly closed.
The year after the sale of his commission, Captain N found himself considerably in debt, "Never mind, Ella," he said to his anxious wife; "the crops will pay all." The crops were a failure that year. Creditors pressed hard; the Captain had no money to pay his workmen, and he would not work himself.
Why, I can't cook, and I can't keep accounts, and I have no idea how many pounds of meat people want for dinner. I shall order a tin of Australian meat, and just have it at every meal till it is finished, and then get another." "I am afraid the servants will soon give you notice if you do, Ella," said Mrs. Hastings, laughing at her daughter's ideas of housekeeping.
It's rather sudden at first that's all! And with that he was gone. Flossie, coming in a little later, found her sister sitting by the window, smiling in a strange, vacant way. 'Well? said Flossie eagerly, for she had been anxiously waiting to hear the result of the interview. 'It's all over, Flossie; he has broken it off. 'Oh, Ella, I'm so glad! I hoped he would, but I wasn't sure.
And he went up, and to be sure Sidney met him at the top of the stairs, banjo in hand, cigarette in mouth, smiling, easy and elegant as usual not a trace of physical weakness in his face or form. And Horace was jocularly ushered into the nursery and introduced to his nephew. Ella had changed. She was no longer slim, and no longer gay and serious by turns.
I had not to go to you. But I have come to you to-night. We are together, you and I; and we are the same as when we were girls together oh, just the same! Who shall come between us, Ella?" "Who? Who? You came here to save me. I knew it. But you had saved me before you came. Phyllis, in this very room I was alone with him.
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