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I took both her hands and drew her to me, while outside in the street they were singing the Marseillaise and yelling for joy. "Alathea, tell me the truth, what then do you feel?" "I don't know. I wanted to murder Suzette. I could have drowned Coralie. Perhaps you can tell me, here in your arms !" And with wild abandon she fell forward into my fond embrace. Ah! God!
He was not overjoyed to have the old man visit him, just then; he was even doubtful of the welcome which his heart had for the daughter; but he was a southerner and in the gentle-born southerner real hospitality is quite instinctive. "Mr. Holton Barbara," said he. "I am delighted. Welcome to the mountains." He grasped their hands in hearty greeting. "But where are Aunt Alathea and the Colonel?"
She handed it to me without a word . The letter ended: "Adieu Nicholas! tu es, Toujours Mon Adoré Ta Suzette." but the way it was folded only showed "Toujours Mon Adoré Ta Suzette" and this much Alathea had certainly seen . I felt as if there was some evil imp laughing in the room There was nothing to be said or done.
"With your impulsive, generous nature, racing is sure to ruin you." The Colonel looked first at Frank with ardent sympathy aglow in his eyes; then, after a hasty glance at Miss Alathea, he quickly changed the meaning of his look and spoke admonishingly. "The voice of wisdom!" he exclaimed.
Miss Alathea, at the moment, was trying to see satisfactorily, through the very knot-hole which the Colonel had abandoned. She sprang from it hastily, however, and to the foot of the tree which acted as his pedestal, when he exclaimed: "Oh, great heavens! There's a fall ... a jam ... and Queen Bess is left behind three lengths!"
"Ah, what a gallant sight!" he cried as he found himself in a position whence he could command a view of the exciting scene within the barrier. "There's Catalpa ... and Evangeline ... and ... yes, there is Queen Bess!" A burst of cheering rose from the crowd within. Miss Alathea was on tip-toe with excitement. "What's that?" she begged.
She accepts my defection and again looks to the main chance to see how she can benefit by it. At last the whole thing was over, and Maurice and I had a cigarette together in the tea room. People would be crazy, "simply crazy, my dear chap," about Alathea, he told me. She was "séduisante," how right I had been! How fortunate I was! When was I going to England?
Miss Alathea looked at him with pleased surprise. "Colonel, your sentiments astonish and delight me." "How can you refuse," the Colonel said, "when such a woman asks? For one who loves you, you should give those pleasures up without a pang." In the pause that followed he reflected on the history of the youth to whom he had referred, for that young man was himself.
And then she rose and went into the other room to type, closing the door after her. And I lay there shivering with rage and chagrin. I saw no more of Alathea that morning She had her lunch in the sitting-room alone, and Burton brought the dishes in to me, and after luncheon he insisted that I should sleep for an hour until half-past two o'clock. He had some accounts for Miss Sharp to do, he said.
"Colonel Sandusky Doolittle," he adjured himself, "if you don't say it now, then you forever hold your peace, that's all!" He went to his buggy, which had been brought to the stable yard, and from underneath its seat took a box containing a bouquet of sweet, old-fashioned flowers. Miss Alathea, absorbed in the account of the revival, did not notice him at all.
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