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And they'd hardly sat down at their table, when in come the fellers she had called Jimmy and Ted with two girls. And they sat eating of their suppers and chaffing one another across the floor, all as pleasant and sociable as you please. 'I say, Katie, I heard one of the nuts say, 'you were right. He's worth the price of admission. I don't know who they meant, but they all laughed.
First came Harry Rivers, stepping out quite gayly, as though it was a picnic. On reaching the ground, he turned and assisted the ladies to descend. This he did by the simple yet pleasing process of lifting them down bodily first Katie, then Dolores. At this sight Ashby gnashed his teeth with jealous rage. Then came Russell, whom, it is perhaps unnecessary to state, Harry did not lift down.
"You like any girls better'n boys; you said so the other day," she said. "I like some girls," said the small boy, and he might have said more, but his cousin Katie stood behind Arabella, shaking her head, and frowning at him. Reginald looked at Katie, and decided to be silent. There were ever so many things which he would have liked to say, but Katie might tell at home if he were too naughty.
Such was Norah Geraghty, whom Charley was to marry. And then that other portrait was limned with equal accuracy before his eyes. Katie, with all her juvenile spirit, was delightfully feminine; every motion of hers was easy, and every form into which she could twist her young limbs was graceful.
I want this to try to explain them. Loving dogs, you will understand this better than you could some other things. "The dog had been given away to some one who lived in the country. It was because I had played with him the Sunday morning before and had been late to Sunday-school." Her voice was dry and hard; it was from Katie there came the exclamation of protest and contempt.
I felt that I could almost resign the long and eagerly hoped-for son, to win one more smile from that sweet, suffering creature. Often did I weep myself to sleep, and wake to weep again with renewed anguish. And my poor little Katie, herself under three years of age, how patiently she bore the loss of my care, and every comfort! How earnestly the dear thing strove to help me!
She must save the "maternal instinct" Clara was always talking about usually adding that it was a thing which Katie, of course, could not understand by taking it under the sheltering wing of the "child's good." Katie knew just how to reach the emotions which Clara had, without outraging too much the emotions she persuaded herself she had.
For all her gravity, she was not above understanding and enjoying those games under the hedgerows, when Katie set up house, and made banquets with broken bits of crockery, to which she entertained her admiring friend.
As Katie peered in, she saw through the vista of three rooms into the dressing room, which was the last of the suite. Before the dressing-room fire she saw the viscount and Mrs. Dugald standing, their faces towards the fire; their backs towards Katie. She cautiously opened the door and stepped in, closing it silently behind her.
On Tuesday it was known by everyone in the village that Katie Morrison and Alexander Semple had been married the previous Friday, and sailed for America the next day. After this certainty father and son never named the subject but once more. It was on one calm, spring evening, some ten years after, and David lay within an hour of the grave.
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