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I'll have the car around to the door in a jab of a jiffy!" By the time the limousine swung under the porte-cochère Lana was down and waiting; Mrs. Stanton came hurrying after, ready to defy a January midnight in a cocoon of kolinsky. Coventry had ridden from the garage with the chauffeur. "I have been talking with Wallace.
Let me to the best of my ability repair the evil which I have done. "To anyone who is acquainted with the history of the Argentine Republic the name of Lana is well known. My father, who came of the best blood of old Spain, filled all the highest offices of the State, and would have been President but for his death in the riots of San Juan.
Bleecker's invitation, and that the girl was to remain permanently under her protection. The romantic fact that Lois was the orphan of white captives to the Senecas, and had living neither kith nor kin, impressed Angelina sentimentally, and Lana with an insatiable curiosity, if not with suspicion. As for Boyd, he had not recognised her at all, in her powder, patches, and pretty gowns.
"How strange it is, Lana," I said, "to be here with you; I in rifle dress and thrums, hatchet, and knife at my Mohawk girdle; you in chip hat and ribbons and dainty gown, lifting your French petticoat over the muddy ruts cut on the King's Highway by rebel artillery!" "Who would have dreamed it three years ago?" she said, her face now sober enough. "I thought your people were Tory," said I.
But you had become so dear to me and I could read you through and through and found you so like myself and it gave me a new pleasure to humble my pride to your desires. That is how it came about. Also, I saw those ladies.... And I do not think I shall be great friends with your Lana Helmer even when I am fine and brave in gown and powder to face her on equal terms "
By 1680 Giovanni Borelli had reached the conclusion, in his book De Volatu, that it was impossible that man should ever achieve flight by his own strength. Nor was he more likely to do so in the first aerial ship, designed in 1670 by Francesco Lana, which was to be buoyed up in the air by being suspended from four globes, made of thin copper sheeting, each of them about 25 feet in diameter.
"I know, Jeanie Mac Dougal! Ye canna forget ye are wee mither and it's hard for ye to be only woman richt noo. I know the kind of wife ye hae in mind for me. The patient wife, the housewife, the meek wife wi' only her een for back-and-ben, for kitchen and parlor. But I love Lana." "She promised and she took her promise back! Again she promised, and again she took it back!"
He marched down the stairs with as much self-possession as he could command. Below him he saw Senator Corson, Mrs. Stanton, Silas Daunt, and the banker's son. All were garbed for outdoors and the Senator was inquiring of Mrs. Stanton why Lana was not ready. From the landing down to the hall Stewart found the ordeal an exacting one.
"I overheard persons say distinctly, over and over again, that one feature of this no, I'll not muddle my own ideas of society functions by calling it a reception they declared that your father proposes to announce to-night in his home town your engagement to Coventry." The question that she did not put into words she put into the searching, quizzical stare she gave Lana.
"Perfect in health, my friend. And if you truly are glad to see me, then I am content. But I am also very wet, Euan, spite of my capuchin. Lana and I have a common box. It belongs to her. May our boatmen carry it ashore?"
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