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He took a copy of Cook's voyages with him to Egypt, and no sooner was he firmly installed as First Consul, than he "planned with the Institute of France a great French expedition to New Holland." The Terre Napoleon region is far from being half the continent of Australia, if that be what Dr. Holland Rose's words mean. One or two errors of fact may as well be indicated. Dr.
"My husband may be a draper," she had remarked at various times, "but he does give me a good home." Deb, so long homeless amid her wealth, conceded at this moment, without a grudge, that Rose's humble little arrow of ambition had fairly hit the mark. They embraced with all the warmth of the old Redford days. A few hasty questions and answers were exchanged, and their heads met over the cradle.
Doctor Frank was introduced, made his bow, and retreated to Rose's sofa. Capricious womanhood! Rose, that morning, had decidedly snubbed him; Rose, at noon, welcomed him with her most radiant smile. Never, perhaps, in all his experience had any young lady listened to him with such flattering attention, with such absorbed interest.
Next time thou thinks to thyself, 'I'm more knowledgeable than Coulson, just remember Alice Rose's words, and they are these: If Coulson's too thick-sighted to see through a board, thou'rt too blind to see through a window. As for comin' and speakin' up for Coulson, why he'll be married to some one else afore t' year's out, for all he thinks he's so set upon Hester now.
"Whose is the child?" roared Edouard and Raynal, in one raging breath. "Whose is the child?" "It is mine." These were not words; they were electric shocks. The two arms that gripped Rose's arms were paralyzed, and dropped off them; and there was silence. Then first the thought of all she had done with those three words began to rise and grow and surge over her.
And as Rose sat stitching in the housekeeper's room that night, her mind busied itself over Tom's words, and the difficulty of making a decision. It had never entered Rose's pretty head to lay this question of marriage before God. Had she done so she would have been saved from making a mistake, which was to leave its mark upon the whole of her future life.
Beside her a plump matron had her face suitably composed; three bored young men were leaning against a wall. The music jangled, the voice shrieked a false emotion, and Rose's eyebrows rose with the voice. It was dull, it was dreary, it was a waste of time, yet what else, Rose questioned, could she do with time, of which there was so much?
"Bless the baby," murmured Miss Carter as she and Mr. Strahan stood in the hall and watched Mary Rose's head go down, down. "I thought children were barred?" asked Mr. Strahan quickly, he was so afraid that Miss Carter would disappear also. "I thought pets were barred, too. She's a quaint little thing. I suppose she is homesick.
Nana!" was so loudly repeated that the crowd looked round in astonishment for the filly, nor could any tell whether it was the horse or the woman that filled all hearts. While this was going on Mignon came hastening up in defiance of Rose's terrible frown. That confounded girl simply maddened him, and he wanted to kiss her.
It was Anna who had spoken to Sir Jacques, and suggested the sleeping draught which had finally broken that evil waking spell Anna who, far more than Rose's own mother, had sustained and heartened the poor child during those dreadful days of reaction which followed on the brave front she had shown at the crisis of the operation.
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