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"It is quite ready, miss; I was just about to send it down." He brought forward the double loving-cup that Lionel had given to Nina; and as the young lady took it into her hands she glanced at the rim. Yes; the inscription was quite right: "From Leo to Nina" that was the simple legend she had had engraved. "Here is the cup I spoke of, Estelle; is it not beautiful?
Murray, impatiently, darting an angry glance at the servant. "I did, ma'am, but they said they would wait." As Estelle folded up her napkin and slipped it into the silver ring, she looked furtively at St. Elmo, who, holding up a bunch of purple grapes, said in an indifferent tone to his mother: "The vineyards of Axarquia show nothing more perfect.
A single glance at each other was enough to arrange a scheme that they should take Estelle seriously on her own ground, and thus find amusement enough during the time of their stay. "You say you love art, madame; perhaps you cultivate it successfully," said Joseph Bridau. "No.
So we'll have some rehearsals in the morning." "Am I to do that riding act?" asked Estelle. "Yes, you'll do the horse stunt as usual. There's to be a cavalry charge, Miss Brown, so don't get in their way and be run down." "I'll try not to," she answered. Long rows of wounded men lay stretched out on white cots in the hospital. Some wore bandages over their heads all but concealing their eyes.
The illness seemed to banish all other considerations from Sabina's mind and, while the issue remained in doubt, she planned various courses of action. Incidentally, she saw more of Estelle and Miss Ironsyde than of late, for Mr.
Suddenly, from a distant hill, came a dull, booming sound, that, low as it was, seemed to make the very ground tremble. "What's that?" cried Alice. "Thunder," suggested Ruth. "It sounded more like an explosion," asserted Estelle. "There it goes again!" exclaimed Alice. "Look!" cried her sister.
He's still a wild animal, who occasionally, for his own convenience, pretends to be tame." "I shan't try to tame him," said Estelle. "I respect wild things a great deal too much to show them the charms of being tame. But it's something that he's coming, and if once he will let me be his chum in holidays, I might bring him round to Ray."
"That is problematical, my fair cousin, for if my provocative playmate had accompanied me, I'll be sworn but I think the supply of Spartan birch would have utterly failed to sweeten my temper. Her mother answered laughingly: "Estelle is quite right; you contrived to grow up without the necessary healthful quota of sound whipping which you richly deserved." Mr.
Each locked in her breast a secret. There had naturally been talk of Gerald. Estelle was immensely nice about him, and Aurora appeared immensely frank, but yet both knew that he was to be a delicate subject between them thenceforward, and that thoughts relating to him could not be exchanged without reserve.
"But I never was in Portland," insisted Estelle, and it was plain that she was puzzled by his persistence but not offended by it. "And I don't remember ever having seen you before." "Perhaps if I recall some of the circumstances to you it may bring back the memory," suggested the lieutenant.
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