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Yet, when Lottie Drugg was stone-blind, the expression of her eyes had been lovely. "Weren't you and your papa lucky to get such a mamma?" continued Janice with a swift glance over her shoulder at Hopewell. The storekeeper was drawing the bow across the strings softly and just a murmur came from them as he listened.
Lottie had believed that in the pines her echo lived, and Janice could almost hear now the childish wail of the little one as she shouted, "He-a! he-a! he-a!" to the mysterious sprite that dwelt in the pines and mocked her with its voice. Blind and very deaf, Lottie had been wont to run fearlessly out upon the broken dock and "play with her echo," as she called it.
"But, Lottie, compare your station and prospects with his." "There is scarcely any one with whom I would not exchange prospects. I am sick of society's artificial distinctions, in which true worth and manhood all that Heaven cares for count for nothing. What does Mr. Hemstead care about my wealth, name, and position in New York?
She could not rest, and at last thought that the frosty air would cool the fever in her cheeks, and so wrapped herself for a walk upon the broad \ piazza. Moreover, she felt, as Lottie had, that she would be glad to have no eyes, not even her father's, witness their meeting.
Lottie returned from another direction with Boyne, and Ellen said, "Poppa's gone to look for you." "Has he?" asked Lottie, dropping decisively into her chair. "Well, there's one thing; I won't call him poppa any more." "What will you call him?" Boyne demanded, demurely. "I'll call him father, it you want to know; and I'm going to call momma, mother.
Hinton turned his back on his promised bride; there was a cloud on his brow, he felt both hurt and angry. "Lottie! what is your engagement?" This was said while pretending to look down the street. Charlotte came close and put her hand a little timidly on his shoulder. "I know you will be vexed," she said "but I cannot tell you." Hinton held up his hand to a passing hansom.
Travilla exchanged the coldest and most distant of salutations, and the party set off; Mr. Travilla riding by Elsie's side, Egerton and Lottie following a little in their rear. Finding it almost a necessity to devote himself to Miss King for the time being, Egerton! took a sudden resolution to make a partial confidante of her, hoping thus to secure a powerful ally.
"I shouldn't have liked it with Lottie, either," said the major, stiffly. "But if it had been Lottie she would have boxed his ears for him, instead of running to you. Lottie can take care of herself. And I will take care of Ellen. When I see that scoundrel in the morning " "What will you do, an old man like you!
Pickering. I do think it would be better if you had something to do I do indeed." She looked at him with an air of affectionate severity. "I speak as your friend, you know." "I dare say that is true, as a rule," he said. "But you don't think you would be?" questioned Lottie. He turned to her with a smile: "Well, I doubt it.
The girls turned to look at the other motor boat. It was rounding the point to Bayhead now, and seemed to be going at remarkable speed. "How fast it goes!" exclaimed Lottie. "Yes, much faster than the Chelton," responded Cora. "I told you he was holding back." "What could have been his object?" asked Belle. And that was a question all the girls asked themselves.
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