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Kalliope White, looking only too like Minerva, or some of those Greek goddess statues they used to draw about, sitting straight and upright in her triumphal car, drawn by her votary; while poor Gillian came behind with the pony on one side and the bicycle on the other, very much as if she were conducting the wheel on which she was to be broken, as an offering to the idol.
They thought of reversing the present position, and taking a small house where their present hosts might become their lodgers. Moreover, Miss Mohun clenched the affair about Theodore, and overcame Alexis's scruples, while Lady Merrifield, having once or twice looked in, and been smiled at and thanked by Kalliope, undertook to prepare her for his farewell.
'Indeed, said Kalliope; 'I do not think much time has been lost, for they have learnt a good deal there; but I am particularly glad that Petros should go to a superior school just now that he has been left alone, for he is more lively and sociable than Theodore, and it might be less easy for him to keep from bad companions.
Both sisters were in request to enliven the captive, and Jane forebore to worry him with her own anxieties about the present disgrace of the Whites. Nothing could be done for Kalliope in her mother's present state, Alexis must drink of his own brewst, and Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield were past Brindisi! As to Mr.
The shell soared high above the palace, passed over the cliff behind and dropped harmlessly somewhere in the sea. The Queen and Kalliope stood behind the flagstaff from which the blue banner of Salissa flew. At the sound of the shot, while the shell's shriek was still in her ears, the Queen gave her order. Kalliope, hauling hand over hand on the halyard, ran up the Stars and Stripes.
'This is delicious! murmured Kalliope, with a gesture of enjoyment. 'Much nicer than down below! 'Oh yes; it seems to stretch one's very soul! 'And the place is so big and wide that no one can worry with sketching. 'Yes, it defies that! said Kalliope, laughing. 'So, Fa -Captain Henderson won't crop up as he does at every sketchable place. Didn't you know he was here?
If she had taken her own way she would have given the struggle up. But the Queen, though she too gasped for breath, would not turn back or rest for more than a few minutes. She was determined to reach the look-out post on the cliff. In the end she got there. Kalliope lay at full length, face downwards, in the little hollow. The Queen sat beside her and looked out to sea.
'She is very often at St. Kenelm's, but I do not know any more of her. The mother either goes to Bellevue or nowhere. They are in Bellevue Parish. This was quite sufficient answer, for any interference with parochial visiting in the Bellevue district was forbidden. Aunt Ada called to Gillian, and when she eagerly said, 'This is Kalliope, aunt, only responded with a stiff bow.
She had heard it a hundred times in old days at prayers in the chapel of her college. It was a hymn tune. The words came back to her at once. "Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God." She took Kalliope by the arm and led her back to the boat. "Come away," she said, "quick, quick. I'm going mad." Kalliope entered into the spirit of a new game.
'I suppose there will be for the winter, said Miss Mohun, and therewith the conversation was safely conducted away to musical subjects, in which some of the sisters' pride and affection for their brothers peeped out; but Gillian was conscious all the time that Kalliope was speaking with some constraint when she mentioned Alexis, and that she was glad rather to dwell on little Theodore, who had good hopes of the drawing prize, and she seriously consulted Miss Mohun on the pupil-teachership for him, as after he had passed the seventh standard he could not otherwise go on with his education, though she did not think he had much time for teaching.
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