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Not that there were two minds among us about 'the case'; it was a preposterous case, sentimentally undignified, from some points of view deplorable. I chose to reserve my point of view, from which I saw it, on Judy's behalf, merely quixotic, preferring on Robert's just to close my eyes.
"You'd better let that Bible class alone this evening, Judy. Yo' salvation ain't dependin' on it, I reckon." But in Judy's colourless body there dwelt, unknown to Nature, which has no sense of the ridiculous, the soul of a Cleopatra. At the moment she would cheerfully have died of an asp sooner than relinquish the study of Exodus under the eyes of the rector.
Norton watched them with a sly glance. Without any remark or salutation Judy passed them with a toss of her head, and went into one of the drawing-rooms. "She'll do," said Norton, with a competent nod of his head in Judy's direction. "That is, she'll do the insolent, whenever she has a mind to. She is a case, is Judy Bartholomew. Well, come, we must get out of the way, Pink.
He stayed there more than a week, intending to leave Kentucky after his master's pursuit should have ceased. But one morning his master came to the house, and told Judy's mistress that one of his slaves was concealed on the place, and asked permission to hunt him, which was granted.
She had heard the ripple of laughter, stifled almost as soon as it had commenced, and having reached her chair and faced the audience while the procession was still on its way up the aisle she noticed the amused glances directed toward Judy's head. It took only a second glance to assure herself of what Judy had done and she frowned and compressed her lips.
How thrilling!... She smiled and dimpled as she met Judy's eye next morning, inviting the announcement. The days went on and Judy did not make it. Only as the lovely spring days, pale with windy sunlight or soft with fuming mists, slipped by, Judith blossomed as the rose. But it was a fierce blossoming, a fiery happiness, that Georgie could not understand.
Carrying the stocking between them, and followed by all the girls who had been standing around, Sahwah and Miss Judy started for Bedlam to tell Tiny about the panic her hosiery had caused, but halfway to Bedlam the trumpet sounded for dinner and the deputation broke up in a wild rush for the bungalow. Miss Peckham carefully avoided Miss Judy's eye all through dinner.
She took Judy's hand in hers and studied the palm. "You will live to be old," she said, monotonously. "There are double rings around your wrist. You will marry a man with wealth and with gray eyes." "I don't want to know that " said Judy, impatiently, to whom such matters were as yet unimportant. "Tell me about about other things." "Hush," said the gipsy, "I must say, what I must say.
Judy's rescuer whirled, to see the man on the ground drawing a gun. A vigorous, well-directed kick, delivered in the nick of time, sent the gun whirling away into the bushes and rendered the native's right arm useless. "Get up!" commanded Brian. The man rose to his feet, and stood nursing his damaged wrist and scowling at Judy's companion. "Are you this girl's father?"
Again Auntie Sue seemed to hesitate; then "Her name is Miss Betty Jo Williams," and as she spoke the old teacher looked straight at Brian. "A perfectly good name," Brian returned; "but I never heard of her before." Judy's black eyes, with their stealthy, oblique look, were now watchfully fixed on Auntie Sue. "She is the orphan-niece of one of my old pupils," Auntie Sue continued.
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