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"If that is so, I hope that they will put you next to me at dinner," she said gayly; "but if they don’t, you’ll tell me some other time, won’t you? I’m always so interested in what people have to tell me about myself." Burnett began to laugh.
The princess began gayly to explain that here was her great "surprise" at last: the two heroes of whose classic escape the whole world had heard. The "Elusive Mars," as he had been called, was in reality Captain March, who had refused to make use any longer of his nom de guerre.
"I dreamt," said he, "this night, that we were in the most miserable situation imaginable; indeed, in the situation we were yesterday morning, or rather worse; that I was laid in a prison for debt, and that you wanted a morsel of bread to feed the mouths of your hungry children. The prison-doors immediately flew open, and Dr Harrison introduced you, gayly though not richly dressed.
"So it appears," said Marianne gayly, "that I must begin to study my profession at the eleventh hour." "Better late than never," said I. "But there is this advantage on your side: a well-trained mind, accustomed to reflect, analyze, and generalize, has an advantage over uncultured minds even of double experience. Poor as your cook is, she now knows more of her business than you do.
Low easy-chairs and a lounge, small fanciful tables, a dainty desk, gayly colored baskets of worsteds or mysterious kaleidoscopic fragments, and vases of flowers pervaded the apartment with a mingled sense of grace and comfort.
How can a man feel free to risk his life gayly when he has a woman hung about his neck?" "He will not," she whispered, growing hot all over. "No, he has not forgotten. I have given the little heart and the flowers and candles. And he could not forget while I He will come back." She struggled with the passionate persistence of a child. Since she would not give him up, he was hers.
"This is a pretty spot, this charming little nook, is it not?" "Certainly, my dear cousin." "And these old willows with their large tops overhanging the stream; see how the field-flowers cluster gayly about their battered trunks! How strange, too, that young foliage, so elegant, so silvery, those branches so slender and so supple!
In the long winter evenings you can't think what a treat a new book is. I wouldn't change places with the queen." They had come back to the kitchen, and she stood before the cupboard, reaching high for two old gayly striped crockery mugs. There were some doughnuts and cheese at hand; their early supper seemed quite forgotten.
"Those are for good luck, like a four-leaf clover," she said gayly. "Good-bye, dear!" Early the next morning Polly ran over to the Home. She was eager to hear how Miss Twining's new plan had worked. As she neared her friend's door, however, a murmur of voices came from within, and she kept on to the third floor, making her way straight to the corner room.
The hours flew past unnoticed, while the young men proceeded gayly outward from the river in quest of new adventures. Glenn and his man rode far beyond the scene of their late success without discovering any new object to gratify their undiminished zest for the chase.
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