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''Tis I, Gertrude, darling Lily Lily Walsingham, she said, perhaps as much dismayed as Gertrude herself; 'I'll return in a moment. She saw the figure, outside, glide hurriedly away by the side of the wall. 'Lily Lily, darling; no, don't go I did not expect you; and Gertrude stopped suddenly, and then as suddenly said
She was the princess, spinning fine dreams and waiting for the dawning of the golden day when the prince should come for her. Neither she nor Gertrude ever gave a serious thought to the five-year-old vow of celibacy, which was to Beulah as real and as binding as it had seemed on the first day she took it.
But I will not owe it to the generosity of Reuben Harmer, after all that has passed. I should be humbled to the very dust!" The Master Builder looked at his daughter in amaze. He had never seen Gertrude quite so moved before. "Why, child," he exclaimed in astonishment. "I always thought that thou hadst a liking for the youth!"
Gertrude prepared a head-dress for Kitty; and tastefully mingled the choicest productions of the garden, that, when Isabel saw her cousin look so beautiful with it, she felt a sharp pang of jealousy of Kitty and dislike to Gertrude. Emily was not well this evening.
"It isn't, my blessed child." "It is, Gertrude our civilisation." "Oh, civilisation." "Englanderin, Englanderin," mocked Bertha. "Englishwooman, very Englishwooman," echoed Elsa Speier. "Well, I am Englanderin," said Millie, blushing crimson. "Would you rather the street-boys called Englanderin after you or they didn't?" "Oh, Jimmie," said Solomon impatiently. "I wasn't asking you, Solomon."
He actually saw Miss Gertrude and my Lord Dunoran walking side by side, on the mulberry walk by the river; and though he looked and felt a little queer, perhaps, a little absurd, he did not sigh, or murmur a stanza, or suffer a palpitation; but walked up to the hall-door, and asked for Miss Rebecca Chattesworth. Aunt Becky received him in the drawing-room.
There came forth the procession: the minster choristers, Dr. Spencer as architect, and, in her white dress, little Gertrude, led between Harry and Hector, Margaret's special choice for the occasion, and followed by the Stoneborough clergy. Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness.
Beatrice, the eldest, was of a gentle, quiet disposition, and her very presence held in check her frolicsome younger sister; for Gertrude, who was fat, fair and seventeen, saw too much of the bright side of life to be anything else than good-natured and jolly, and finding her counterpart in Dexie Sherwood the days flew by on gladsome wings.
"Good-bye, Gertrude, and think of what I have said!" Ingmar shouted back, for by that time he was halfway down the gravel walk. Then he went on his way. "If I were only as wise as my father!" he mused. "But what can I do? I'm about to lose all that is dearest to me, and I see no way of preventing it."
If she should ever come to want, you must help her." "How pretty Gertrude is!" he thought, as he nodded and promised to remember Marie Boving's name. "How pretty she is! What will become of me when she goes? God forgive me if I did wrong in giving her up for an old farm!