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It was the first time of calling her by her Christian name, and done for the sake of making the equal intimacy apparent. In fact, Mary was behaving herself better than the visitors, as Lady Kenton absolutely told her when a sort of titter was heard in the hall, where they were expressing to Freda their horror at the scrape, and extorting that Miss Marshall was really a governess.
Vaughan, I should think, need only look at his own brother," said Freda, missing the drift of my speech. I longed to tell her what it was possible to tell of Derrick's life, but at that moment Sir Richard Merrifield introduced to his daughter a girl in a huge hat and great flopping sleeves, Miss Isaacson, whose picture at the Grosvenor had been so much talked of.
There was, however, no mistaking the real warmth of his welcome, and for the moment only for the moment Freda's heart beat quick. 'I am so glad to see you, Freda, sister Freda, you know, now, and looking so well. 'Yeth, ith'nt the looking well. I think the lookth younger than when the went away. 'Handsomer, at any rate. I may pay you a compliment, now, Freda. Freda could not return it.
"I have been telling Freda how surprised I was at the beauty of this place." "Surprised, is it? Sure, there ain't another spot this side of Cape Cod with as many fine points to it. I wouldn't leave this little bay for a berth on any ocean liner." "My friend, Cora Kimball, is from Chelton, Uncle Denny. Do you know where that is?" asked Freda. "Chelton? Chelton? Sure, I do.
"Yes, and I wondered who she was," remarked Bess. "She was Freda Lewis." "Freda Lewis! Why, I never would have known her!" "Nor I!" added Belle. "How she has changed! Of course you were more intimate with her than we were, Cora; but she certainly doesn't seem to be the same girl." "She isn't," replied Cora. "She and her mother are in trouble financial trouble. I'm going back and talk to her.
The charge is given by the Spirit of God: 'Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life." He took her hand and kissed it passionately. "That crown will I win, my Freda," he cried, "for I will be faithful unto death!" There was a curious mingling of tenderness and admiration in the glance she bent upon him.
He also went his, wondering in his very selfish heart whether Freda really cared for him after all, and scheming to see Gladys, whose utter carelessness of him had roused his vanity. When he had left Glanyravon, with a promise to Mr Gwynne of returning, Freda no longer strove to appear what she was not, and went to bed really ill.
Her answer was contained in the few sarcastic words, 'The heat. I hear you have suffered from it also. Although Freda could not, herself, enter into the conversation she could observe the by-play between the colonel and Miss Nugent; the bashful, simpering smiles of the young lady, the flattering glances of the gentleman.
I fancy, somehow, that they might be induced to give me a good salary something like fifty or sixty pounds a year, and I can teach a child like Freda very well indeed, for her father saw that I was well educated. There's nothing else for it, I can see that; but it breaks my heart all the same." Dorothy talked a little longer to Effie.
Sitka Charley promised his help, and went away thinking what a wicked woman this Loraine Lisznayi must be, also what noble women Mrs. Eppingwell and Freda were to interest themselves in the welfare of the unknown Flossie. Now Mrs. Eppingwell was open as the day.
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