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"I won't," said Eva, who was very pale, except for burning spots on her cheeks. "She's afraid she won't get frostin' on her cake, and silk dresses, I expect," Jim Tenny said, and laughed, but his laugh was very bitter. "Jim Tenny, you know better than that," Eva cried, sharply. "I won't stand that." Jim Tenny, with a quick motion, unwound his arm from Eva's waist and stripped up his sleeve.
Evidently she had forgiven her sister the surprise she had given her on that eventful breaking-up day, for she looked the picture of happiness. 'And do you think I'm going to cook in a silk gown, whatever the day? No, indeed! it's safely packed away, as yours ought to be, young leddies! 'We are going back to the workaday world to-morrow, nursie; let us stop in fairyland for to-day, said Eva.
Eva wound it swiftly around the little roll, and the maid hastily left the room, sure of the gratitude of the true and steadfast Biberli. When Eva was again alone, she at first thought that she might rejoice over her hasty act; but on asking herself what Els would say, she felt certain that she would disapprove of it and, becoming disconcerted, began to imagine what consequences it might entail.
'Jim, says I, 'I 'ain't never regretted it. And God knows I spoke the truth, and I speak the truth when I say it now. I 'ain't never regretted it, and I don't regret it now." Eva said the last with a look as if she were hurling defiance, then she went on in the same high, monotonous key above the ordinary key of life.
But had he noticed the fiery eyes that had watched him through the secret rock door of the cavern he would not have been so eager to try the test he had in mind. By this time Eva had called her car, and together Locke and Eva drove to the near-by cove, where there was a little launch which he planned to use.
He rose to meet me, and I saw that he was a handsome tall man about forty, with a determined face and a winning smile. "Mr President," said he, "I am in command of her Majesty's gunboat, the John Bright, and I have come to pay my respects to the ladies." "I am sure the ladies have great pleasure in seeing you." I looked round the room, and there, with other of our fair citizens, I saw Eva.
"This summer she was too feeble to leave Ion; so we shall find her there. In deep sorrow too, no doubt; for her old husband, Uncle Joe, died a few weeks since." "Eva must hear their story one of these days," remarked Mr. Leland; "it is very interesting." "Yes; and some of it very sad; that which occurred before mamma's visit to Viamede, after she had attained her majority.
When the knight, with his figure drawn up to its full height, strode hastily into the royal hall, he beheld with joyful emotion those who were most dear to him, for whose presence he had longed most fervently during the ride his mother, Eva, his sister, and the imperial friend he loved so warmly.
And so the tangled skein straightened itself out, and the little household at No. 2 Heather Road went on very happily. Eva was acting up to her suggested motto of 'Save' to such good purpose that, thanks to overtime and rigid self-denial, encouraged by Mrs. Morrison, she had paid off half her debt. 'Fancy, fifteen pounds in three months!
'I don't think I care about eating things fried in a pan coming from an East-End market, remarked Vava. 'And I don't see much good in a kettle with a hole in it, said Stella; but instead of being shocked, as Vava evidently was, she seemed rather amused. 'It can easily be mended with solder, and sixpence is dirt-cheap for a large iron kettle, observed Eva.
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