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On this occasion I took care that Lizette should not be first, and when we rejoined our party Diane pointed at the mare with her whip as she laughed, for she had recovered her temper. "I see now I should not have stopped when I did. Another mile and that big, dust-coloured thing would have been yards and yards behind; would she not, Rollo?"
"I knew it; I was sure I had heard the name before, but I couldn't remember when or where; I see it now; she must be the girl Larry O'Neil used to talk about up at the diggin's; but as I never saw her there, of course I couldn't know her." "Well, I don't know about that; I suppose you're right," replied Lizette; "but isn't it nice?
Carson attempted to lift the boy, but once more before his eyes a change took place, and Tom King became Lizette, the French nurse. He awoke, shaking in every limb, with cold perspiration on his face. "Did I dream," he hoarsely muttered, "or did I live the past over again?" There was no more sleep for him. He rose and went to the window. The cool night beckoned to him. The soft moon smiled at him.
You shall hear from me again ere long. "Your sincerely-attached friend, "Edward Sinton." At the time Tom Collins was reading the above letter to Lizette, in a broken, husky voice, our hero was seated on the taffrail of the ship that bore him swiftly over the sea, gazing wistfully at the receding shore, and bidding a final adieu to California and all his golden dreams. Home!
Rougeant, and he was about to disappear when Lizette, feeling that she was not required any more, and moved to the quick, turned towards her master. "I can go now," she said. "Well, go; so much the better." That same evening, Maît. Adèle wept. Her father silenced her with a frown. "You will commence school on Tuesday next," he said.
"Admit the Intendant and show him into the garden, Lizette. Now!" said she, "I shall end my doubts about that lady! I will test the Intendant's sincerity, cold, calculating woman-slayer that he is! It shames me to contrast his half-heartedness with the perfect adoration of my handsome Le Gardeur de Repentigny!" The Intendant entered the garden.
"I will take Lizette," I said. "Then you take the best horse in all Poitou." And Ménorval then and there offered me a hundred crowns for her, which, needless to say, I refused. At the appointed time, accompanied by Pierrebon, I rode into the courtyard of the priory, and found there the men whom Montluc had promised me.
An instant later a shadowy figure came rustling toward him. It was the woman, and she was right upon him ere she discovered the silent man who stood there beneath the trees. With a little gasp, she turned and fled on. A patch of moonlight, shimmering through the branches, had shown him her face. The face of Lizette! His first impulse was to follow her.
"Nobody but a born gen'us 'ud ever have tho'rt of that," he said "never seed yo' e'kal why, the money is your'n, any way you fix it. You can ring in Lizette one heat and Sadie B." "There are things to be thought and not talked of," replied Travis quickly. "For a man of your age ar'n't you learning to talk too much out loud? You go and find out what I've asked I'll do the rest.
When the engagement was announced, and he claimed his first kiss from his bride-to-be, as he placed a ring upon her finger, he remembered the first time he had kissed Lizette, and a double blush suffused his round countenance. When he walked arm and arm with Henriette in the garden he remembered how he had walked just so with the other girl, and he was interested to compare the words of the two.
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