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Nelson Vanderlyn beamed on his wife, sent his daughter off to bed with a kiss, and leaning back in his armchair before the fruit-and-flower-laden table, declared that he'd never spent a jollier day in his life. Susy seemed to come in for a full share of his approbation, and Lansing thought that Ellie was unusually demonstrative to her friend.
Cannot you muster resolution enough for that, Ellie?" Ellen was satisfied, for she knew by his tone he would do what she wanted. "Father," said John, the next morning at breakfast, "Ellen wishes to take upon herself the daily care of your study, but she is afraid to venture there without being assured it will please you to see her there."
Allen bothered Essie and Ellie, but was forced to acquiesce, which was fortunate, for when on the last day of the holidays it was found that he had walked to River Hollow to take leave of the Goulds, his aunt administered to his mother a serious warning on the dangers of allowing him to become intimate there. Caroline tingled all over during the discourse, and at last jumped up, exclaiming
She and Mrs. Vanderlyn left the dress-maker's together, and after an absorbing session at a new milliner's were now taking tea in Ellie's drawing-room at the Nouveau Luxe. Ellie, with her spoiled child's persistency, had come back to the question of the chinchilla cloak.
And Ellie blushed, and said, "Yes, Tom; I did not like coming here at first; I was so much happier at home, where it is always Sunday. And I was afraid of you, Tom, at first, because because " "Because I was all over prickles? But I am not prickly now, am I, Miss Ellie?" "No," said Ellie. "I like you very much now; and I like coming here, too."
But she altered her mind the next day. For, when Sir John and the rest of them had run themselves out of breath, and lost Tom, they went back again, looking very foolish. And they looked more foolish still when Sir John heard more of the story from the nurse; and more foolish still, again, when they heard the whole story from Miss Ellie, the little lady in white.
"Children in the water, you strange little duck?" said the professor. "Yes," said Ellie. "I know there used to be children in the water, and mermaids too, and mermen.
He shouted after her, but she did not answer; he asked all the other children, but they had not seen her; and at last he went up to the top of the water and began crying and screaming for Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid which perhaps was the best thing to do, for she came in a moment. "Oh!" said Tom. "Oh dear, oh dear! I have been naughty to Ellie, and I have killed her I know I have killed her."
I was within ten feet of her, and I was thinking that she couldn't possibly hold that cool, unconscious look much longer, when a hand feminine was extended from the row of silent watchers and caught at my sleeve. "Ellie Carleton, it's never you!" chirped a familiar voice.
"Yes," said Ellen "I know it; but I think it is very disagreeable to think about it." "It would be, Ellie," said he, bringing her again to his side "very disagreeable very miserable indeed, if we knew no more than that. But we know more read here." Ellen took his little Bible and read at the open place.
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