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One gathered that the Guardian's fate hung on the acceptance of this translucent risk, that it was a prize saved from the clutches of a hundred grasping competitors and brought to the counter of the Guardian like a pure white lamb to the altar of the gods. When it was all over, and nothing was wanting except Mr. Cuyler's signature to the binder then Mr. Cuyler came into his own.
The third, a handsome girl, very simply dressed, returned her ladyship's gaze with mingled interest and timidity. My lady noticed this, and the girl's elegant air and shape, and set down the other two for her duenna and her guardian's man of business. Aware that Sir George Soane had no sister, she scented scandal, and lost not a moment in opening the trenches.
What's in your mind, girleen?" "Oh, I'm so glad you think so too! Kenny " "Yes?" "Do you know Jan's cousin, the pretty girl who's a model? I know that doesn't sound at all as if it had anything to do with the farm but it has. Jan's cousin said I hardly know how to tell you, Kenny. I don't think I like telephones. If I could see your face " "I'm wearing my guardian's face!" "Oh!"
But Pansy, responding again to the company rather than her guardian's counsel, and as if appealing to them, went on half poutingly: "Yes! I runned away because they teased me! Because they didn't like you and said horrid things. Because they told awful, dreadful lies! Because they said I wasn't no orphan! that my name wasn't Stannard, and that you'd made it all up.
"Then, if we wish, we may sleep out on the sands when the nights are warm." "I shall have to think about that, my dear. Now go to sleep. This evening I shall have more to say." Tommy was already asleep. Harriet dropped into a heavy slumber within a very few moments after the Chief Guardian's departure. She did not awaken until the sun had dipped into the sea.
She could only stand there, clinging to her guardian's arm, the smile of welcome stiffening on her pale lips. The Colonel was the first to speak. He held out his disengaged hand with a frank movement of pleasure. "Glad to see you, Stafford," he said. "I was beginning to think the fever had really got hold of you. What has caused the delay?" "Delay?"
A pencil-writing, on a crushed and torn piece of paper, blotted with wet. Folded roughly like a letter, and directed to me at my guardian's. "You know the hand," he said, "and if you are firm enough to read it to me, do! But be particular to a word." It had been written in portions, at different times. I read what follows: "I came to the cottage with two objects.
But could she possibly, however fleet of foot, have rounded the next corner before his coming into the light? Abbott sped along the street that he might know the truth, though he realized that the less he saw of Fran the better. However, the thought of her being alone in the outskirts of the village, most assuredly without her guardian's knowledge, seemed to call him to duty.
She stepped cautiously to the rock, braced first one foot then the other, and leaned back until her weight was directed in the right way. She then began walking up the rock, hand over hand, with an ease that amazed the Meadow-Brook Girls. Janus reached over and took firm hold of the guardian's arm for the last step to insure her safety.
"Well, what do you think of Gray Manor in daylight?" asked Mr. Allendyce as the two walked into the library. "Oh, it's more like a great castle than ever. But it isn't half as bad as I thought it was." When Robin caught the amused twinkle in her guardian's eye she added hastily: "I mean, it isn't gloomy and sad at all. It's so beautiful and I love beautiful things." Mr.
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