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"I won't tell on ye," he said. "I feel like it meself, at times. Ada's a good child, as good as a born egoist can be, but well we are not all made on the same plan. And this life don't suit you. You're a dreamer. I know one when I see one, for I've that side to meself, and now that life is easy it's most the only side I've got left.
Half an hour later, Ada took her seat in the cart, this time transformed into a Hindoo girl, and the party again proceeded. They felt sure that Ada's flight would not be discovered until daybreak. It would be some little time before horsemen could be sent off in all directions, in pursuit; and they could not be overtaken until between eleven and twelve.
To-day when Ada was having a bath Mother said to us two: "Girls, I've something to tell you; I don't want you to get a fright in the night. Ada's mother told me that Ada is very nervous, and often walks in her sleep." "I say," said I, "that's frightfully interesting, she must be moonstruck; I suppose it always happens when the moon is full."
The recollection of them, he said, would go with him wherever he went and would be always treasured. And so we gave him our hands, one after another at least, they did and I did; and so he put his lips to Ada's hand and to mine; and so he went away upon his long, long voyage!
'Why, I suppose I may look at Ada's slate, though you must not, said Claude, laughing to himself at poor little honest simplicity, as he applied himself to cut a new point to her very stumpy slate-pencil, and she scampered away, and returned in a moment with her clean slate. 'Oh, how nice and fresh it all looks! said she as he set down the clear large figures.
"Is she as nice as she looks?" "Yes, Ada's a real nice sensible girl," said Mrs. Boyd. "There is no nonsense about her." "That doesn't sound very encouraging," murmured Pauline, as Mrs. Boyd went out. "I like people with a little nonsense about them. But I hope better things of Ada, Mrs. Boyd to the contrary notwithstanding. She has a pair of grey eyes that can't possibly always look sensible.
Nevertheless he was miserable till Gillian had put on her hat, and then she could do nothing that would content him and keep him out of Aunt Ada's way, but walk him up and down in the little front court with the copper beeches, while she thought they must present to the neighbours a lively tableau of a couple of leopards in a cage.
"Ada's lookin' fer yous, Jonah," said Chook. "Yer don't say so?" replied the hunchback, raising his leg to strike a match. "Was Pinkey with 'er?" he added. "D'ye mean a little moll wi' ginger hair?" asked Chook. Jonah nodded. "My oath, she was! Gi' me a knockout in one act," said Chook; and the others laughed. "Ginger fer pluck!" cried someone.
Blood is thinker than water, and what five months ago had seemed to be exile, had become the first step towards home, if not home itself, for now, like Valetta, she welcomed the sound of her mother's voice in her aunt's. And there were Valetta and Fergus rushing out, almost under the wheels to fly at her, and Aunt Ada's soft embraces in the hall.
I remember w'en 'arf this street was open paddicks, an' now yer can't stick a pin between the 'ouses. I was a young gell then, an' a lot better lookin' than yer'd think. Ada's father thought a lot o' me, I tell yer. That was afore 'e took ter drink. I was 'is first love, as the sayin' is, but beer was 'is second.
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