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But their eyes had said nothing to her whatever, if not for the want of trying. Alexina's imagination, torpid for many months, ran riot. This man might disappoint her, might have nothing in him for her, but she refused for more than a moment to contemplate anything so flat.
I nursed him " She paused and her eyes grew sharp and watchful, Alexina's face showed no understanding and she went on, still watching. "I nursed him back to life. Through a part of his convalescence. A woman knows certain things. He almost loved me then. If we could have been alone he would have found out asked me to marry him. We should be married to-day.
"Cowan Steamboat Mortgage," read Alexina from a page of early entries. "What was that?" "A mortgage held for you on a boat built at the Cowan shipyards." "What was the name of the boat?" Alexina's voice sounded suddenly strained and odd. "The 'King William," said Austen. "The boat never paid for itself, and the mortgage was foreclosed and the boat sold."
"And such be-yewtiful slippers," said Nelly, with Alexina in her lap, pulling up the little stocking and buttoning the strap about the ankle. Alexina's hand held tight to Nelly's hard, firm arm, steadying herself. Perhaps she divined the intention. "Can I come, too, when you go to set the table?" she asked. But Harriet never suspected.
Groome, when free of social duties, retired on the stroke of nine with a novel, and turned off the gas at ten. She never read the society columns of the newspapers, choked as they were with unfamiliar and plebeian names; and her friends, regarding Alexina's gay disobedience as a palatable joke on "poor old Maria," and sympathetic with youth, would have been the last to enlighten her.
"Miss Harriet got it for me; it was she who suggested it that is, she got Mr. Blair to get it for me. It's at your church, you know." "Uncle Austen? No. Did he, really?" But the surprise in Alexina's voice was unfair to her uncle. To help people to the helping of themselves was part of his creed.
Had Emily dared even in her mourning there was something about her that was reckless. But she did not dare. She was twenty-two and he was fifty-two, and she was to live afraid of him, to see him an old man, for he is living now. Harriet laughed at Alexina's wonder over her. "It took me a time to realize that hospitality means the incidental oftener than the invited," she confessed.
They asked their more immediate protector questions as to the progress of the fire, which he answered curtly, as befitted his office. MRS. ABBOTT entered Alexina's room and caught her hanging out of the window. She had motored up to the city during the afternoon, and, after a vain attempt to persuade her mother to go down at once to Alta, had concluded to remain over night.
Nature had done much to assist her in her several difficult roles. She was very tall straight and slender, with a haughty little head, as perfect in shape as Alexina's, set well back on her shoulders, and what had been known in her Grandmother Ballinger's day as a cameo-profile. Her abundant fair hair added to the high calm of her mien and it was always arranged in the prevailing fashion.
What dreams I had that first night I got his note late and was too tired to reason, to suspect....I just dreamed until I fell asleep. I'd start for England a week later for England!" Goose flesh made Alexina's delicate body feel like a cold nutmeg grater. "England?" "Yes!...ah...you see, it's the only place where literary recognition counts for anything." "Oh?
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