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I've had a great deal of trouble. 'I'm sorry you're so depressed. I know what it is. That wretched painting, we give ourselves to it heart and soul, and it deceives us as you deceive your lovers. 'So it does. I had not thought of it like that. Yes, I've been deceived just as I have deceived others. But you, Elsie, you've not been deceived, you can do something. If I could do what you do.
This, and the fact that the meeting-house was nearer than the chapel, determined him, when the new, rector, who was not quite up to his mark in education, was appointed, to take a pew in the "liberal" worshippers' edifice. Elsie was very uncertain in her feeling about going to church. In summer, she loved rather to stroll over The Mountain on Sundays.
But Miss Day handed back the book with a frown, saying, "I told you the recitation must be perfect, and it was not." She was always more severe with Elsie than with any other of her pupils. The reason the reader will probably be able to divine ere long. "There are two incorrect figures in this example," said she, laying down the slate, after glancing over its contents.
Miss Arabella hurried out to the front veranda, fearful lest the minister or the new doctor might be within earshot. "Good-morning, Arabella!" called a sweet voice from the other side of the cedar hedge. Miss Arabella ran joyfully to the gate. "Oh, Elsie, is it you? Come away in and sit a minute; do, now." "No, thank you, Arabella; not this morning.
Jane described the beautiful country walks she took, which she was sure Francis or Elsie would appreciate far better than she could do. She contrasted the activity and full life of the gentlemen of the house with the languid idleness of Mrs.
"Occasionally she looks at me in the most peculiar manner. I've caught her looking that way several times. Once I discovered her glaring at Frank's back in a way that was almost savage." "How singular! What do you suppose it means?" "Oh, I don't know, unless it may be that she envies Frank and me. It may be that some time she was disappointed by an unfaithful lover." "Poor girl!" breathed Elsie.
I dreamt once that I came down and saw it open, and that it was full of the most lovely jewellery chains, and rings, and bracelets, with the most beautiful precious stones set in them, all colours of the rainbow!" "Good-night! Why didn't you collar a few? You might have grabbed a handful, and given some to me." "I was just going to, when I woke up," answered Elsie.
A packet of letters in a female hand, with a French post-mark, was eagerly opened by the cousins, and contained a number of long and confidential letters from a Marguerite de Vericourt, which extended over a number of years, and stopped at the year when Jane and Elsie came to live with their uncle.
Now, my bonnet will not cost two-thirds of what hers has done, and it will look quite as pretty, will it not, Alice?" "A little different in style, but quite as well," said Elsie. "You see, Mr. Brandon, that if I have seemed to take a great deal of trouble over my purchases, it has been for some purpose. One cannot economize without some thought being bestowed upon such things as these." Mr.
"I suppose if Elizabeth had had a son, he would have inherited the dimples," he remarked. "I believe they say girls take traits from their fathers and sons from the mother. Curious, isn't it?" "Well, my dear, if Elsie had had dimples when she came, she would have lost them ere this," said Mrs. Middleton with unusual energy. "She's been put right into a treadmill, Jack.
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