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Willie came in the evening to say good-bye before returning to Mr. Bray's. He was in a hurry, for his master had his doors closed early, especially on a Sunday night. But Mr. Cooper made his usual visit; and when he had gone, True, finding Gerty sound asleep on the settle, thought it a pity to wake her, and laid her in bed with her clothes on.

It was like the water overwhelming a drowning man. But at last he cried out and he grasped both her hands in the sudden vehemence of the moment "Gerty, you are not drawing back! You do not despair of our being husband and wife! What is it that you mean?" "Oh, Keith!" said she, quickly withdrawing one of her hands, "you frighten me when you talk like that!

"I promise to like you until you tell me frankly that you're bored." The eager child quality he seldom saw was in her look and she was about to make some impulsive answer to his words, when there was the sound of a heavy step outside the door and they heard the next instant Perry's hilarious voice. "Well, I'm jolly glad you kept him, Gerty, but, by Jove, I wonder how you hit it off.

Her clothes pinched her, so did her new boots; Madam Delia had gone to Providence with the show, and Gerty had not so much as seen the new Chinese giant. Of all days Sunday was the most objectionable, when she had to sit still in Friends' Meeting and think how pleasant it would be to hang by the knees, head downward, from the parapet of the gallery.

Trueman Flint was the reverse of Paul Cooper in disposition and temper, being very sanguine, always disposed to look upon the bright side of things, and ever averring that it was his opinion 'twould all come out right at last. On this evening they had been talking on several of such topics; but when Gerty awoke she found herself the subject of conversation. "Where," asked Mr.

De Marsan said that he would rather have Gerty than a hundred-dollar bill. Madam Delia looked forward and saw herself sinking into the vale of years without a sigh, reaching a period when a serpent fifteen feet long would cease to charm, or she to charm it, and still having a source of pride and prosperity in this triumphant girl.

But you are quite right, Gerty, to laugh at the rumor. Of course it is quite ridiculous. It is quite ridiculous to think that an actress whose fame is all over England who is sought after by everybody, and the popularest favorite ever seen would give up everything and go away and marry an ignorant Highland savage, and look after his calves and his cows and hens for him.

"Arnold will be there and I dare say he'll be willing to come back in my carriage." "I dare say he will," observed Perry, not without a jealous indignation, "and I dare say you'd be pleased enough if I'd let him." Gerty laughed as she closed the drawer with a bang. "Well, I shouldn't exactly mind," she rejoined.

"You could sweep the room every day, you could make the beds, with a little help in turning them; you could set the table, toast the bread, and wash the dishes. Perhaps you would not do these things so well at first; but you would keep improving, and get to be a nice little housekeeper." "Oh, I wish I could do something for Uncle True!" said Gerty; "but how could I ever begin?"

But she had no sooner shut her eyes than she began to live over again the afternoon in Kemper's room; and her heart beat so high that she heard the muffled sound under the coverlet "Why did Gerty look at me so?" she asked. "Did she really look at me as if she were afraid, or was it only my imagination?"