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She gaily tossed a kiss at the king of the lumber world. "The difference between you and him is this: he doesn't care about the things of this world, and you do; but he's one of the ablest men in Canada. If Fabian won't come back, why not Carnac?" "We've never hit it off."
"Alas, poor Fabian! he too loved me I know he did." Then once more facing round to the fire, he hazarded a last question: "Do you not remember one circumstance above all? Do you not remember that this man was suddenly separated from you in the midst of a terrible affray ?" The emotion under which Bois-Rose was suffering hindered him from finishing his interrogatory.
Davis and his Government were strongly dissatisfied with the Fabian policy of Joe Johnston. The papers had told us of the Rebel President's visit to Atlanta, of his bitter comments on Johnston's tactics; of his going so far as to sneer about the necessity of providing pontoons at Key West, so that Johnston might continue his retreat even to Cuba.
"Now do tell me" quickly, and as though to change the current of her companion's thoughts "how many people are in this house, and who they are, and everything that is bad and good about them." Dulce laughs. "We come and go," she says. "It would be hard to arrange us. I am always here, and Uncle Christopher, and Fabian.
"He satisfied the one principal creditor, I suppose?" says Fabian, indifferently. "Oh! impossible," says Sir Christopher. "It came to hundreds, you know; and he hadn't a farthing. Well, good-by; I'm off. Expect me and the bon-bons about dinner-hour." He nods to Portia and Julia, who smile at him in return, and, kissing Dulce, quits the room.
Then she withdraws the hand from his, and without another word, not even a hint at what the gaining of her freedom may mean to either or rather both of them, they go slowly back to the garden, where they meet all the others sitting in a group upon a huge circular rustic seat beneath a branching evergreen; all, that is, except Fabian, who of late has become more and more solitary in his habits.
The pews were filled with the beauty, fashion, and aristocracy of the capital, and a splendid crowd they formed. Every lady held a rich bouquet; every gentleman wore a rare boutonniere. Mr. Fabian looked at his watch from moment to moment. We have scarcely ever seen a more impatient bridegroom than Mr. Fabian Rockharrt. But, then, childish disorders go hard with elderly folks.
While Fabian and Pepe rushed down the rock, at the risk of breaking their necks, Bois-Rose followed the movements of the horse glancing along the barrel of his rifle. The two men appeared to make but one body: the back of the horse and the shoulders of Diaz were the only objects at which Bois-Rose could aim; only now and then the head of the animal was visible.
By a secret feeling the poor child divined that Gayferos had not yet finished. At length the latter said gently, "Fabian bore another name, Senorita; do you wish to hear it, while we are alone and without witnesses?" Rosarita turned pale. "Another name! oh, speak it?" she cried, in a trembling voice. "He was long known as Tiburcio Arellanos."
"Take care not to get too far under," said Fabian, "or you may be caught in the roots and branches." "Have no fear, child; a whale may sooner remain fixed to a fishing-boat which it can toss twenty feet into the air, than I under an islet that I could break to pieces with a blow."
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