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"Mary decided that we should give her the cold shoulder. 'We don't know who she is, she said. Absurd! It would have been better to have been civil." Elsie, too, had forgotten Lily. The hint which Arnold had given her about the old attachment between his cousin and Ryan had slipped out of her mind.
I endeavoured to realize the thought, but could not, and I left the church hardly conscious of anything but a dull sense of loss. I found my father very grave. He spoke tenderly of Elsie; but he did not know how I had loved her, and I could not make much response.
"I haven't seen anything about it in the papers," said I, trying to recover my self-possession which had sustained a most tremendous shock. "Thank heaven!" cried Elsie devoutly. "Do you mean to say you won't tell me his name?" I demanded. Elsie eyed me suspiciously. "Why did you ask if he is a count?"
Christmas was a wonderful day. Elsie did not realize how delirious her enjoyment was nor how painfully she was keyed up because of her underlying apprehension of coming agony.
Don't you fear, my dear; I'll help you with your Annex as heartily as I'll help Elsie Macintyre with her great school. 'I must go and ask Mrs Macintyre's leave, said Mrs Constable. 'This sounds like a wonderful and delightful dream. 'My only dread, thought Mrs Maclure to herself whilst waiting for Mrs Constable to join her, 'is that that good man, James Cadell, will lose his heart to her.
Thus they were compelled to move slowly, and Elsie suddenly gave a little shiver, and both she and Dick realised that the air was grown chill and that the light was beginning to fail. Still they pressed the ponies on, and at last they caught sight again of the barrow on the hill, though, to their disappointment, it seemed little nearer than before.
Her sympathy for Elsie was deep and sincere; yet she thought her brother's course the only wise and kind one, and her indignation waxed hot against Arthur and Egerton. "And Elsie still believes in the scoundrel?" she said inquiringly.
Elsie turned her soft eyes full upon him, as she answered with gentle gravity: "I feel that the commands of both my earthly and my heavenly Father are binding upon me at all times, and in all places, and I hope I may ever be kept from becoming an eye-servant. Love makes it easy to obey, and God's commands are not grievous to those who love him."
I'm careful, steady as any man can be, but no owner would trust me with a ship now, unless she was a back number, an' over-insured. Even then my luck would follow me. I 'd bring that sort of crazy old tub through the Northwest passage. So I'm first mate, an' first mate I'll remain till my ticket gives out." A good deal of this was Greek to Elsie.
Allison; that was succeeded by family worship, and then they sang hymns until it was time for the children to go to bed. As Elsie laid her head on her pillow that night, she said to herself that it had been a very pleasant day, and she could be quite willing to live at Elmgrove, were it not for the thought of her own dear home in the "sunny South."
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