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Wonderful rugs and draperies and ornaments were taken from the vans, many pictures, and books enough for a library. Among other things there was a superb god Buddha in a splendid shrine. "Someone in the family MUST have been in India," Sara thought. "They have got used to Indian things and like them. I AM glad.
I have saved in it alone twelve shillings. And see these ribbons which I have got for four-and-twenty shillings the ell thirty were asked. Are they not beautiful? will they not look magnificently? is it not a real discovery? did you ever hear of anything like it? Sara, if you will go to the same shop as I do, you will get all at the same price.
"Well, his very evident interest in me," cried the girl hotly. "He sends me flowers, this is the second box this week, and he is so kind, so VERY friendly, Sara, that I can't bear it I really can't." Mrs. Wrandall stared at her. "You can't very well send him about his business," she said, "unless he becomes more than friendly. Now, can you?"
I could not go there again under circumstances so different. If ever it could be again as it had been, how I should love it! So that invitation I declined, saying I should be in Cornwall with Diana. Lady Glenburnie would forgive the mention of Diana, I knew, and of Betty, Hugh, and Sara I said nothing, as she had stipulated.
"Sara," she said, "do you think you can bear living here?" Sara looked round also. "If I pretend it's quite different, I can," she answered; "or if I pretend it is a place in a story." She spoke slowly. Her imagination was beginning to work for her. It had not worked for her at all since her troubles had come upon her. She had felt as if it had been stunned.
The tea-pot had tea in it, ready for the boiling water from the little kettle; one plate had toast on it, another, muffins. "It is real," said Sara. "The fire is real enough to warm me; I can sit in the chair; the things are real enough to eat." It was like a fairy story come true it was heavenly. She went to the bed and touched the blankets and the wrap. They were real too.
Overcome in a great struggle she was borne away and made unclean of body and hopeless at heart. She wandered about, an outcast, in the land of her fathers until at last she crept away to die." A curse broke from the lips of Jael and his hand moved quickly toward his belt as he exclaimed, "When I find him ! But first I must find her. Where is Sara now?"
He is coming this evening, as usual, but Sara thinks four-and-twenty hours too long to wait. 'Oh, mother, how can you talk so? returned Sara bashfully. 'You know Donald asked us to meet him, and he would be so disappointed. And it is such a lovely afternoon, if Ursula does not mind. 'On the contrary, I shall like it very much, I returned, moved by curiosity to see Colonel Ferguson again.
Whilst I consider myself the subject of one king, though he be in a prison, I cannot accept of any employment under another who is in alliance with his enemies." Lady Sara discovered her error the moment he had made his answer; and, in a disappointed tone, exclaimed, "Then you despise my friendship!"
"He isn't joking, mother," said Vivian, with a shrug of her fine shoulders. "He he MUST be," cried Mrs. Wrandall impatiently. "What did she REALLY say, Leslie?" "The only thing I remember was 'good-bye," said he, and then blew his nose violently. "Poor old Les!" said Vivian, with real feeling. "It was Sara Gooch's doing!" exclaimed Mrs. Wrandall, getting her breath at last. "Nonsense," said Mr.
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