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'Say "Our Father," said Queenie promptly; and she clasped her tiny hands together in Theodora's. The child was too ignorant to realise their danger. It was only the terror in Theo's face that frightened her Theo, the sister who was so strong, so tall, so all-wise, in the trustful little one's innocent eyes.
He studied Theo's face for a moment, then he burst out, "What's your game, anyhow, Tode Bryan?" "Carrots," exclaimed Theo, earnestly, "there's no game at all about it. I've got the room, an' I don't need it, 'cause I've taken another one. You're welcome to use this till the month's up. Now, what d'ye say? Will ye take it or leave it?" "I'll take it," rejoined Carrots, slowly. "All right."
Dave exclaimed, a little surprised. Then he frowned as a sudden thought struck him, and he knelt beside Theo's limp form. A blow like that, he'd read, could sometimes kill! But thankfully this time it hadn't; he was relieved to find his guard still breathing. Theo might play a mean game of chess, but for a rebel he was okay.
"I don't say that you are stupid that is that is, I I only meant country dances," says Hetty, biting her lips, as she caught her sister's eye. She remembered she had said Harry was stupid, and Theo's droll humorous glance was her only reminder. But with this Miss Hetty chose to be as angry as if it had been quite a cruel rebuke. "I hate dancing there I own it," she says, with a toss of her head.
"He is like Jacob, he will think nothing of them for the love he bears to Rachel," said Theo's mother. "I wish that were all." "But I wish I could make you see it from a man's point of view." Dick did not himself know what he meant by this confused speech. He wanted to make some sort of plea for himself, but how, or in what words, he did not know.
Had the Prince of Wales been going on that voyage, he could not have been better provided. Where, sirrah, is the Tompion watch your grandmother gave you? and how did you survive the boxes of cakes which the good lady stowed away in your cabin? The ship which took out my poor Theo's children, returned with the Reverend Mr. Hagan.
Of Theo's hints he was speaking to Rose as they sat together at breakfast, and she had answered, "It will be a splendid match," when the doorbell rang, and the servant announced, "A lady in the parlor, who asks for Mr. Warner." "I told you someone would come," said Rose. "Do, pray, see who it is. How does she look, Janet?"
Then "Is his mother I mean Théo's mother alive?" she then asked, drawing up her knees and clasping them comfortably. "Yes." "That is a pity." "A pity! Aren't you shocked and frightened?" "I'm sure I'm not shocked, and I don't think I am frightened. Brigit, does Théo know?" Then Brigit turned, her face white under the sunburnt skin. "No. I am afraid to tell him." "Afraid?" "Yes, afraid.
She thought there must have been a quarrel, and that Lady Markland had resented Theo's treatment of Geoff, which his mother immediately began to justify to herself; saying that of course he did not mean to hurt the child, but that a person put in charge of the children of another, in any case, must have some power of correcting them when they wanted correction, and with great wonder and indignation at his wife had yet a wondering question in her mind what would she herself have done if any one had corrected Theo so when he was a boy?
But Lady Markland was not conscious of the defects in the service. She sat by Theo's side, talking to him, looking at him in a kind of soft ecstasy. They had been friends before, but it seemed that she had now for the first time discovered what he was, and could not conceal her pleasure, her gratitude, her admiration.
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