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A young woman busy with embroidery looked up from her work at the rattling of the door-latch, and looked out through the square window-panes. She seemed to recognize the old-fashioned violet silk mantle, for she went at once to a drawer as if in search of something put aside for the newcomer.

She had said not a word of Violet, but had spoken of Lord Chiltern, mentioning his name in bitter wrath. "But he is a friend of mine," said Phineas, smiling. "A friend indeed! Mr. Finn. I know what sort of a friend. I don't believe that you are his friend. I am afraid he is not worthy of having any friend."

So with my bit of coin turning over and over in an undecided way, whether it shall commit suicide to supply me a supper, I behold a pair of Spanish eyes like violet lightning in the black heavens of that favoured clime. Won't you have violet?" "Violet forbids my impersonation." "But the lustre on black is dark violet blue." "You remind me that I have no pretension to black."

The rose and gold and violet flames of the driftwood lit up for him the secret way to Dreamland and the country of Romance. What it did for mother, she did not say; but as her fingers moved, regularly as the ticking of a clock, her eyes would wander over the old furniture she had loved and back to the fire, as if she were trying to call up her own past and her son's future.

But in March he would come along singing and with a violet in his hat, and as full of intoxicating power as his casks, and would make them all happy, inn-keepers and girls; there was a quatrain about him which all the lads along the Carinthian Road used to sing when they wanted to tease the love-sick girls.

Marcia will feel dreadfully put out if you are not there to-night." "To-morrow would make it too late to see one of the parties, who is to go abroad." And he knits his brows. "Well," says Eugene, "I'll take care of Violet to-night, though I can't hope to fill your place. But I say, Floyd, do you mind if she waltzes with me?"

She smiles superbly and floats over to Gertrude. Violet turns a little cold; to come here for a day, to remain all night "Do you know," says Mrs. Latimer, when she is seated in her sister's carriage, Mr. Latimer is to walk down town, "I think that little Mrs. Grandon charming. She is coming to me on Tuesday, and we are to give a kind of family dinner to Gertrude.

Because then he would be quite hopelessly in the wrong, and I could adopt any of several roles the coldly haughty, the wounded but forgiving, etc., with great enjoyment. But without a change in his glacial manner he quite casually remarked: "It would seem I had struck home." I walked away wishing the dynamite would go off, even if I had to be mixed with Violet till the last trump.

"They're ever so good and kind! they always are," she said in grateful tones. "Oh!" for the first time perceiving that Violet stood near her with the baby in her arms, "mamma and baby too! and how pleased baby looks at the tree!" for the little one was stretching her arms toward it, and cooing and smiling, her pretty blue eyes shining with delight.

"Then," said Violet, "if you won't go to Lady Baldock's or to the Zoo, we must confine ourselves to Laura's drawing-room; unless, indeed, you like to take me to the top of the Monument." "I'll take you to the top of the Monument with pleasure." "What do you say, Laura?" "I say that you are a foolish girl," said Lady Laura, "and that I will have nothing to do with such a scheme."