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Involved and dubious though the compliment might be, Theron felt himself flushing with satisfaction. He nodded his acknowledgment, and changed the topic. "I was surprised to hear Father Forbes say that he did not preach," he remarked. "Why should he?" asked the doctor, indifferently.
His voice was low and pleasant, but the inflection was meaning, and he seemed to imply that Dolly might have worn it from the room. "Of course, I am," Dolly replied, in a scared, low voice, which trembled as she spoke. "There's an idea," said Mr. Forbes. "Mightn't you have left it hooked into your lace, Dolly, and it's there still? Run and look, my dear."
Oh! Charles, Charles, my poor fellow, "who have cast your all upon a die, and must abide the issue of the throw," I most fervently hope that gossiping Captain Forbes spoke falsely: it is a comfort to reflect that the world is often very liberal in attributing the honours of paternity to some who really do not deserve them.
Presently, as she listened, she found herself taking more interest in the country place that Eugenia described than in anything she had heard of since she said good-bye to her dear little cottage home in England. She began to hope that Mr. Forbes would consent to Eugenia's accepting the invitation, and expressed that wish to Eugenia. "Why, of course I am going!" exclaimed Eugenia, in surprise.
Eliza closed the door behind her with a decided slam, and a key clicked in the lock. The sound made Beth indignant, and she hurried back to where her cousins were busy with the laughing, chattering throng of visitors. The lawn fête was a tremendous success, and every farmer's wife was proud of her satin badge bearing the monogram: "W. P. L.," and the words: "FORBES FOR REPRESENTATIVE."
In silence Jewel seated the doll in the nearest chair against the wall, and as she slid up into her own, a neat maid appeared with a puffy and appetizing omelet. Mrs. Forbes filled the child's glass with water, and the maid set down the omelet and departed. Jewel's heart sank while Mrs. Forbes presented the souffle.
Its door stood ajar, and as the child approached she heard a strange sound, as of some one weeping suppressedly. Sturdily resisting the sudden fear that swept to her heart, she pushed open the door. There stood Mrs. Forbes, leaning against a wooden support, her forehead resting against her clasped hands in a hopeless posture, as she sobbed heavily.
"Ah!" said the Duke, "I have heard of that unhappy story, I think a case of child-murder, under a special act of parliament Duncan Forbes mentioned it at dinner the other day." "And I was come up frae the north, sir, to see what could be done for her in the way of getting a reprieve or pardon, sir, or the like of that."
Frank followed him, and the next minute they met, coming from the gate on the Park side, a group of soldiers, marching with fixed bayonets toward the guardroom, two of the men within bearing a stretcher, on which lay Andrew Forbes, apparently lifeless.
Chorus from the party, "She is saved!" "And my sketch is gone up again." "I'm sorry, Mr. Forbes." The girl looked full of innocent regret. "But when I was up there I had to come down that tree. I couldn't help it, really." On the Fourth of July, at five o'clock in the morning, the porters called the sleepers out of their berths at Wickford Junction.
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