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"Mamma said I wasn't to stay very long," she said; "but don't you mind being alone so much?" "No, I don't think so," said Bee, "and, you know, Phoebe is in the next room if I want her." "I know what you'd like," said Rosy, and off she flew. In two minutes she was back again with something in her arms. It was Manchon! She laid him gently down at the foot of Bee's bed.
Then he called, and gave me his wife's address, but still under promise of secrecy; and, excepting those two times, I have never heard any one mention the subject. I think he would have told me more that last time, only Miss Phoebe came in. 'Where is this wife of his? 'Down in the south; near Winchester, I think.
It was with indescribable interest, and even more than childish delight, that Clifford watched the humming-birds. He used to thrust his head softly out of the arbor to see them the better; all the while, too, motioning Phoebe to be quiet, and snatching glimpses of the smile upon her face, so as to heap his enjoyment up the higher with her sympathy.
Well, 's I was a-sayin', I guess it'll take 'bout eighteen hours by the clock to cut back six years. Thet's by the clock, ye understand. As a matter of fact, of course, we'll be just six years less'n no time in finishin' the trip." "Well," said Phoebe, briskly, "that's no kind o' reason fer dawdlin' about it now. Let's be startin'." "Where's the trunks?" said Droop.
I suppose there must be a great deal in race," she added with a soft little sigh, "Clarence looks a clown, and your father such a gentleman. I suppose I show just the same when I stand beside you." Now Phoebe was well aware that this was not the case, and Ursula's indignant disclaimer made her rather laugh, because it was so unnecessary, than be pleased by its vehemence.
"I'll never wear it!" said Phoebe violently, to divert him from his purpose. "Time will show," said Dick dryly. "These varmint are on and off like shadows, and as cunning as Old Nick. We two will walk on quite unconcerned like, and as soon as ever the varmint are at our heels you give us the office; and we'll pepper their fur won't we, doctor?"
And Cousin Sophy had given her a set of Venetian beads and Cousin Anne a bracelet. This good fortune was quite enough to fill her mind with satisfaction, and prevent any undue meditation upon good matches or the attentions of Clarence Copperhead. Ursula was as different as possible from Phoebe Beecham. She had no pretensions to be intellectual.
To come dragging old Peters Brown's money-bags down here just as soon as he croaked, with the express intention of opening up and passing us all our wads back. Could anything as as pathetic ever have happened before?" "No," answered Phoebe.
"Sit down," said Amelius; "and tell me in two words what you mean." Phoebe sat down, and dried her eyes. "I have been infamously treated, sir, by Mrs. Farnaby," she began and stopped, overpowered by the bare remembrance of her wrongs. She was angry enough, at that moment, to be off her guard. The vindictive nature that was in the girl found its way outward, and showed itself in her face.
Phoebe knew not whether pleasure or a painful fear were stronger within her. Here was indeed the culmination of her strange adventure! There, beyond the stone which mercifully concealed her, He was approaching the wondrous Master Mind of literature. Would he go by unheeding? Could she let him pass on without one glance one word? And yet, how address him? How dare to show her face?
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