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But I am not given to much upbraiding, and I love that dear and innocent young face too well to desire anything now but that the owner of it should receive at your hands that which is due to her before God and man." He perceived that the priest knew it all. But how could he wonder at this when that which ought to have been her secret and his had become known even to Lady Mary Quin?
"And we can't dance with the windows down, either. Oh, dear, I wish we'd never tried to give a party!" "May I have the next dance, Miss Eleanor?" Quin ventured at this inopportune moment. She turned upon him a perturbed face, "It's taken," she said absently. "They are all taken until after supper. I'll give you one then." And with this casual promise she hurried away.
Make her give you her word of honor not to have anything whatever to do with him for the next six months. By that time she will have forgotten all about him." "I'll do my best," said Quin, rising. "You'll hear from me first thing in the morning." "Well, go now! But ring first for Hannah. We must pack the child's things to-night.
It was a happy thought of Lily that Dan should open a school for the instruction of Quin and Cyd, and half the day was very pleasantly occupied in this manner. At the end of a month both of these pupils were able to read a little from Dan's Testament, and they continued to make good progress during the remainder of their residence in the swamp.
"Only about half a tumbler full as much as you gave Quin when he was sick. Poor fellow! You don't know how much I have suffered in your absence." During this conversation, Quin, who had more skill as a physician and nurse than his companions, had been carefully examining the patient. "What do you think of him, Quin?" asked Dan, as he turned from Lily to consult with him.
Quin did not take kindly to church. He considered that he had done his full duty by it in the first fourteen years of his life, when he, along with the regenerate heathen, had been forced to attend five services every Sunday in the gloomy chapel in the compound at Nanking.
Leg off at the knee, crutches for life? Bah! We fooled them, didn't we?" Quin made a tremendous fuss over the old lady. He also threw the aunties into pleased confusion by pretending that he was going to kiss them, and occasioned no end of laughter and good-natured banter by his incessant teasing of Mr. Chester. He was in that state of effervescence that demanded an immediate outlet.
Ranny made heroic efforts to entertain their unwelcome guest; Harold Phipps moved about the room with ill-concealed impatience; and Eleanor sat erect, with tightly clasped hands, as angry with Harold as she was with Quin. "Mr. Graham," said Mrs. Ranny at length, when Harold had looked at his watch for the fourth time, "I am afraid we shall have to ask you to excuse us.
The Earl, indeed, was ill, so ill that he thought himself that his end was very near; but his illness had been brought about chiefly by the misery to which he had been subjected by the last despatch from Castle Quin to the Countess.
Oh, dear! oh, dear!" "Falstaff, indeed! Snuff!" In the tone of a trumpet. Quin secretly revoked his good opinion of this woman's sense. "Madam," said the page, timidly, "if you would but favor us with a specimen of the old style " "Well, child, why not? Only what makes you mumble like that? but they all do it now, I see.
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