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But everybody knew he was at last to be crossed off and struck clean out, and the ugly history of the winter, now so impudently corroborated at Saratoga, gave many a hostess the opportunity long desired. Mortimer, as far as his own particular circle was concerned, was down and out; Leila, accepted as a matter of course without him, remained quietly uncommunicative.
"Thank you, my dear Leila, I could wish I were all you think I am; but were it all true, there would remain things that sweeten life and which must always be forbidden to me." He rose to his feet once again master of his troubled soul. "I leave you," he said, "and your tireless youth to your walk.
She told me to explain she's so dreadfully sorry not to be able to give you a sitting-room just at first. They're thinking of Egypt for next winter, unless, of course, Wilbour gets his appointment. Oh, didn't she write you about that? Why, he wants Borne, you know the second secretaryship. Or, rather, he wanted England; but Leila insisted that if they went abroad she must be near you.
He stood swaying and leering at Plank, repeating loudly: "In Quarrier's office! Understand? That's where you'll settle up! See?" Leila, white face quivering, shrank as though he had struck her, and he turned on her again, grinning: "As for you, you come home! And that'll be about all for yours." "Are you insane, to make a scene like this?" whispered Plank.
To tell her he was with the army of the North would be cruel and was what James Penhallow had forbidden. "He is in Washington?" asked Ann anxiously. "When last I heard, he was in Washington, aunt, and as you know, John is before Vicksburg with General Grant." "They will never take it never." "Perhaps not, Aunt Ann," said Leila, penitent.
Maiden, be not so stubborn; speak! thinkest thou he serves the temple of the Mohammedan?" "No! oh, no!" answered poor Leila, eagerly, deeming that her reply, in this, at least, would be acceptable. "He disowns, he scorns, he abhors, the Moorish faith, even," she added, "with too fierce a zeal." "Thou dost not share that zeal, then? Well, worships he in secret after the Christian rites?"
Francis, and was struck with the oddity of representing Monica; and the tall, gaunt figure with the sad eyes, as the joyful St. Francis. "Now, I must go home," he said. "Indeed, no! You are to go with me to the post-office and then to see Mrs. Lamb." He had some pleasant sense of liking to be ordered about by this young woman. As they faced the snow, he asked, "How tall are you, Leila?"
Four! for he had no love for his wife. Besides, it would teach Leila a wholesome lesson teach her that he still counted; serve her right for her disgusting selfishness about Plank.
The Colonel's eyes followed her slight form a little puzzled and not entirely pleased at this easy dismissal of sentiment, when he knew what he himself would have done if she had flown the least signal of distress. He turned to Leila. "I am very much relieved, my dear, to see that your aunt is taking my departure quietly.
Your Church, with its smell of mould and incense, its stained-glass, and narrowed length and droning organ. Poor Edward, so out of the world! But she only pressed his arm, and whispered: "Look at Noel!" The girl was talking to Jimmy Fort. Her cheeks were gushed, and she looked prettier than Pierson had seen her look for a long time now, ever since Kestrel, indeed. He heard Leila sigh.
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