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"They call me Alathea," she said, meaning that that was her name, "but I've allus gone by the name of Betty." From her I learnt all the particulars of my dear friend's last illness, which I never should have got from the brother. "He talked a deal about you," she said. "But you see, you're just about t' age his son would have been if he'd lived." "His son!" I cried: "was Mr. Andrewes married?"
How I would love to have Alathea for my wife and have children It can't be possible that I have written that! I loathe children in the abstract they bore me to death Even Solonge de Clerté's two entertaining angels but to have a son with Alathea's eyes God! how the thought makes me feel!
But I saw no sign of Alathea until she came in ready for dinner as the clock struck eight. She was pale but perfectly composed, she had evidently been having some battle with herself and had won. All through dinner she talked more politely and indifferently than she has for a long time. She was brilliantly intelligent, and I had a most delightful repast. We both came up to the scratch, I think.
"Her christian name is 'Alathea' I heard her little sister call her that once when I saw them and they did not see me, in the Bois She is a lady and I feel Sharp is not her name at all." The Duchesse put on her eyeglasses . "She has not shown a sign that she wishes you to know her history?" "No " "Then, my son, do you think it is very good taste to endeavor to discover it?"
Suddenly she was stricken with a fear. "But she won't, though dressed the way I be!" "What you wear would make no difference to my Aunt Alathea," Frank protested, "any more than it would make to Colonel Doolittle." She did not speak again for quite a time, walking along the narrow mountain-path with eyes fixed, but unseeing, on the trail.
That would be one way of winning or losing everything certainly! But it would also be breaking my word, and I don't believe I could do that. Alathea came in in time for luncheon. Her face was set in a mutinous obstinate mould. We went into the dining-room immediately, and so there was no chance of conversation.
But I know all these rumours and talks, we have heard them before, so this did not affect me. I could feel nothing, as time went on, but a passionate ache. Why, why must she be so cruel to me? Why does she leave me all alone? Alathea, I would never be so unkind to you. And yet I don't know, if I were jealous and angry, as I suppose she is, I could of course be much crueler.
"He's stayed here, studyin' it, a long time, ain't he?" "Yes," Miss Alathea answered. "When he once reached here he seemed to find new beauties in the country every day. He wrote us the most glowing letters of it, and these letters and and other things, decided me to come and see him and the property he is so fond of.
"I'll investigate, and well, I'll see." He walked away, deep in thought. The Colonel turned from him to Miss Alathea. "Miss 'Lethe, congratulate yourself. The victory is won." Frank turned upon his heel and spoke to Holton. "What do you think of this investment?" he inquired. "Wal," said Holton, "I think it's a blamed good thing. I'd only like the chance to go into it, myself."
Miss Alathea cried, as if he were to blame for the disquieting news he had reported to her. "Oh," she exclaimed, to the Colonel's great astonishment, "if I were only on that mare!" "At the half," the Colonel shouted, beside himself with worry, "Evangeline takes the lead ... Catalpa next ... the rest are bunched."
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