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Davis stayed only a few minutes after the ceremony, but we three had a long chat with our good friends, and when we left them at the door, tears of gratitude fell from Aunt Peg's eyes. I looked back, after we had started toward home, to see them sitting on the door stone side by side, and their dark faces resting in the shadow of the Cyprus vine was a pleasant picture.
She wanted to begin at once. And she would have too, not the icy accents of Mrs. Chichester interrupted Peg's plans for the moment. "Come here," called Mrs. Chichester. Peg walked over to her and when she got almost beside the old lady she turned to have another glimpse at Alaric and gave him a little, chuckling, good-natured laugh. "Look at ME!" commanded Mrs. Chichester sternly.
Presently tea was ready and we gathered around the festal board a board literally as well as figuratively, for Peg's table was the work of her own unskilled hands. The less said about the viands of that meal, and the dishes they were served in, the better. But we ate them bless you, yes! as we would have eaten any witch's banquet set before us.
And he described his own natural character and amiability in such moving terms, that he wept maudlin tears of sensibility over his theme; and when Dobbs was gone, drank some more grog, and took to railing and cursing again by himself; and then mounted the stairs unsteadily, to see "what the devil Doyle and the other old witches were about in poor Peg's room."
She attacked and belittled, and mimicked and berated them. They had talked of her BROGUE! They should listen to their own nasal utterances, that sounded as if they were speaking with their noses and not with their tongues! Even the teacher did not go unscathed. She came in for an onslaught, too. That closed Peg's career as a New York student.
"Thank 'ee for nothin', Little Bill, for I don't mean to become either ill or old for some time to come; but, I say, are they goin' to perform an operation on Old Peg's head?" This was said in consequence of Elspie shouting to the old woman to let her put something into her ear to cure deafness. "Cure deafness!" she exclaimed, with a faint laugh, "nothin' will ever cure my deafness.
Before she could say anything further, Ethel suddenly rose unsteadily and cried out: "Wait, mother! She mustn't go. We have all been grossly unfair to her. It is I should go. To-night she saved me from she saved me from " suddenly Ethel reached the breaking-point; she slipped from Peg's arms to the chair and on to the floor and lay quite still. Peg knelt down beside her: "She's fainted.
It contained the news of Kingsnorth's death Peg's entrance into the Chichester family, her discontent her longing to be back once more in New York. This was followed by more letters all more or less in the same key. Finally he wrote urging her to give it all up and come back to him. He would not have his little daughter tortured for all the advantages those people could give her.
It was incredible that Brent could have been so indiscreet! How on earth did that creature get there without their hearing or seeing her? Ethel went straight to the demure little figure sitting on the chair. Peg's journey to England was one of the unhappiest memories of her life. She undertook the voyage deliberately to please her father, because he told her it would please him.
It had never occurred to her to wonder where Forrester spent his time when he was not at home. "Well, I suppose he likes it," she said defensively. "Likes it!" There was a world of scorn in Peg's voice. She turned again to her moody contemplation of the garden. "Do you know what I'd do if I was his wife?" she asked.
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