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Every tinge of colour had faded from Eva's cheeks, and though a few hours before she had asked her sister what the Emperor's greatness signified in the presence of God that she should be forced, for his sake, to be faithless to the holiest things, now fear of the majesty of the powerful sovereign made her breath come quicker.
The day of the arrival was memorable in many ways to the young girl. In the morning came an invitation to sing at a concert, an hour later Mrs. Meadows' brother arrived, laden with good things for the returning invalid, and with a letter from an editor in Wellington, which brought a flush of delighted surprise to Eva's face. Mrs. Meadows herself came over later.
Oh, it was all my fault, every bit my fault, but, but " Eva's voice broke; suddenly she clasped her sister tighter, and then she went down on her knees beside the bed, and hid her tangled head in her lap. "Oh, Fanny," she sobbed out miserably, "there ain't much excuse for me, but there's a little. When Jim Tenny stopped goin' with me last summer, my heart 'most broke.
He read his little Eva's Bible seriously and honestly; he thought more soberly and practically of his relations to his servants, enough to make him extremely dissatisfied with both his past and present course; and one thing he did, soon after his return to New Orleans, and that was to commence the legal steps necessary to Tom's emancipation, which was to be perfected as soon as he could get through the necessary formalities.
What a satisfaction it would be to this reckless throng to tell such a tale of a young girl of whom the Burgravine von Zollern had said the evening before to their Uncle Pfinzing, that purity and piety had chosen Eva's lovely face for a mirror!
Now have I a leetle surprise for you, ladies!" Nor did he at all exaggerate their sensation. "Miss Maddison!" Alas, that it should be so far beyond the power of mere inky words to express all that was implied in Eva's accents! "Miss Gallosh!" Nor is it less impossible to supply the significance of Eleanor's intonation. "Ladies, ladies!" he implored, "do not, I pray you, misunderstand!
"Eva's friends are at Montreal, Edward, and she cannot stay." "Oh, then why, then, to-morrow's your only day, too?" "It doesn't matter in the least, Mr. Mason. I shall be most glad to put off my visit to oblige your friend no, I didn't mean that," she cried, seeing the look of anguish on Mason's face, "it is to oblige you. Now, am I not good?" "No, you are cruel," replied Mason.
"We have more time than you think," were Eva's first words. "We can do nothing for half-an-hour." "Why not?" "I'll tell you in a minute. How did you manage to get over?" "Brought boulders from the beck, and piled 'em up till I could reach the top." I thought her eyes glistened. "What patience!" she cried softly. "We must find a simpler way of getting out and I think I have.
Eva's shriek had waked both, but Els enjoined silence on everyone and, after telling them to go back to bed, said briefly that Eva in her somnambulism had this time gone out into the street and been brought back by the knight. Finally, she again said to Heinz, "Presently!" and then went to her sister.
Nothing but love ought to move his heart on the eve of a union with Him whom he had just called Love itself, and with earnest and tender entreaties he besought Eva to forgive him for the censure which was also a work of love. Throughout the day he had treated her with affectionate, almost humble, kindness. All these things returned to Eva's thoughts as she left her grey-haired patient.
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