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"Come in, Euan!" cried Lois, with a gaiety which seemed slightly forced; and I came, awkwardly, not meeting their eyes, and made for the ladder to get myself below. Whereat both laughed. Lois rose and went behind the blanket to the loop, and Lana said, with a trace of her former levity: "Broad-brim! Do you fly blushing from my levete? The Queen of France receives in scanter attire, I hear.
"I hope it's all right," Lois said, doubtfully. "I wish she wasn't quite so excitable." Lois played basket ball with her head. "Oh, she'll be all right if she doesn't go at it too hard," Polly said, assuringly. "Wonder if we have any mail?" She stopped before the Senior letter box. "One for you, Lo, from your mother, and one for me. Let's go in English room and read them. Mine's from Bob."
"I shall confine myself hereafter to breakfast and lunch-except when I receive invitations to Mrs. Wickersham's." he added. Mrs. Lancaster was on the other side of Keith; so he found the dinner much pleasanter than he had expected. She soon fell to talking of Lois, a subject which Keith found very agreeable. "You know, she is staying with Louise Wentworth?
They were just starting to do the maxixe, wasn't it, Jimmy? when he became a monk, and it haunted him his whole first year. You'd see him when he was peeling potatoes, putting his arm around the bucket and making irreligious motions with his feet." There was a general laugh in which Lois joined.
Lois, now that she was really awake to the necessity, acted the part of senior president, and announced and directed, quite properly. The votes were cast in the Assembly Hall. Each girl wrote the name of her choice for captain on a slip of paper and put it in the box. Then, all the girls who had been on the big team the year before, with the assistance of the Seniors, counted the votes.
Lois watched him draw his check, and was divided between admiration and an undefined dissatisfaction with herself for feeling admiration for what really meant so little. "Thank you very much," the rector said heartily. "Oh, you're welcome, I'm sure," answered the other. Dr.
Farwell's invitation, and at four o'clock they arrived, she and Maud. The girls could hardly restrain a gasp of surprise at the sight of Maud. It is hard to realize that other girls grow up as well as yourself, and Polly and Lois still remembered the shy little girl in a pinafore, with straight flaxen hair and blue eyes that Maud had been two summers before.
Francis's words were casual, but his voice was unsteady with a tender tone that seemed to overweight it. Lois seemed to hear only this tone, and not the words. It was one of the primitive tones that came before any language was made, and related to the first necessities of man. Suddenly she had ears for that only. She did not say anything.
It sounded low and unsteady, as though a storm of feeling lay close beneath the surface. "Do you wonder how I know?" Beatrice went on, after an instant's pause. "I don't know," Lois answered, "and for the moment we won't talk about such things. I can't bear to see you look so so ill. You must sit there and let me get you something to drink. Have you walked?"
But, I warn thee, Aunt Lois will train naughty girls sharply." Rachel stood in a sort of expectant attitude and Primrose leaned against the window. "Get to bed," the elder said quickly. "Go! go!" Primrose stamped her rosy bare foot on the floor. "I want you away. I cannot say my prayer with you here." "Thou needst prayer certainly. Among other things pray for a better temper."
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