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But after consulting with his lawyers he abandoned the plan because they succeeded in proving to him that Maud certainly would marry the fellow if she had the least ground for believing that he was being oppressed on her account. The cables were kept very busy, however, for the next twenty-four hours, and it is certain that Scoville was a marked man from the moment he landed.
And she never lifts it till the 'come on' has given up his cash. Then " Maud laughed. "Gee, but she has had some hot run-ins after she hoists her curtain!" "Why don't you wear a veil all the time?" asked Susan. Maud tossed her head. "What do you take me for? I've got too good an opinion of my looks for that." Susan put on the veil. It was not of the kind that is a disguise.
I no more wish to live with them than Wright, my self-respecting gardener, wishes to live with me though so deeply rooted are feudal ideas in the blood of the race, that Wright treats me with a shade of increased deference because I have been entertaining a party of Lords and Ladies; and the Vicar's wife said to Maud that she heard we had been giving a very grand party, and would soon be quite county people.
"That you haven't, I understand; but that she hasn't," Susie opined, "may mean something." "May mean what?" "Well," Mrs. Stringham presently brought out, "I tell you all when I tell you that Maud asks me to suggest to you that it may perhaps be better for the present not to speak of him: not to speak of him to her niece, that is, unless she herself speaks to you first. But Maud thinks she won't."
Uncle John and Aunt Kate and Laura and Maud and Mary were looking on, and they knew what Ally was thinking of, the very words of it, by that sudden radiant smile upon her face; and Mary was so pleased thereat, she had to cry out, "Oh, what a jolly Thanksgiving this is! Could anything be added to make it jollier?" But something was added.
He drank a glassful, which stood by, breathed once or twice heavily, and gradually recovered himself. The colour had scarcely come back into his face when he heard Maud run laughing through the hall. "Father, where are you? We are waiting for you." "I will come in two minutes, my child." Having said this, in his own natural voice, he closed the door again, and spoke to me rapidly.
The larger half of our days was given to arranging our persons, and while Cousin Maud and Susan would dress me I was already thinking of making ready the weed, the ribbons, and the feathers needed for the next day. My Hans was now a Knight. The same honor was promised to Herdegen honor on honor, pleasure on pleasure, bravery and display!
Of course papa would come to kiss his chicks good-night, but that was hours hence. Much could be done in those hours. Her problem was suddenly simplified, for even as she bent her brows and pondered, Grace Margaret called her attention to an alluring picture behind her. Under the shelter of a blossoming white hydrangea lay Genevieve Maud fast asleep.
"I have no doubt Mazagan intends to make an effort to get possession of our millionaire as soon as he has the opportunity; but he will never succeed unless he knocks the Maud all to pieces with his twelve-pounders, which I don't believe he can do, Louis. You have comforted me so effectually, my dear fellow, that I begin to think it is time for me to do something of the same sort for you."
Many an arm was raised when he was seen approaching, and many a feeble voice attempted to cheer; but Gilbert lay quiet and unconscious, while Harry was talking in the delirium of fever, moaning out the one name, "Maud, Maud!" or imploring his father's forgiveness.
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