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When the imagination is trying its wings it is undismayed even by a world at war. That night Alexina knew that romance had surely come to her. She shared her room with three old ladies who slept fitfully between blasts of dynamite. But she sat at the window with no desire for oblivion. On the lawn paced a young man with a rifle in the crook of his arm.
And this motive it was, strengthened by a naturally adventurous disposition, which induced Mademoiselle Alexina Tinné of whose career we are now about to speak to incur the perils of African exploration. "Visitors to Algiers some years ago, will remember the air of mystery hanging about a certain yacht lying off the harbour.
But she could not quite keep the alarm and excitement out of her voice as she called Stephen, and Stephen knew that something had gone wrong as he came quickly through the hall. "Is the turkey burned, Lexy?" he cried. "Burned! No, it's ten times worse," gasped Alexina. "It's gone gone, Stephen. And the pudding and the mince pies, too. Oh, what shall we do? Who can have taken them?"
His face was dark and he was trembling even more than she was. "I'll have you...have you...." She nodded. Gora entered her room at the pension, mechanically lit the oil stove that Alexina had procured for her, threw her hat on the bed, sat down in the low chair and thrust her hands info the thick coils of hair piled as always on top of her head.
"That pretty fraud, Madelaine Russell, asked me yesterday if she might not come with Alexina to the basket making next Friday," continued Norah. "Of course I had to say 'yes. Now I think I'll ask that little type-writer girl I met at the mission. She is really a neighbor, for she boards in that tall, dreary house on the corner of Walnut and Pleasant streets." "Why not ask her to dinner?
She did not need him in capacity of attendant or diverter these days, and it was clear that in any other capacity he embarrassed her. But he was not deterred because of that. "You are coming to church, remember," he told her on Sunday morning. Molly did not even play at archness with him now; she looked timid. And at the hour she went, and Alexina with her.
They fought well, too. Any man does who's a man at all. But Lord! they'll cut loose when they get back. Every wild bad trait they was born with multiplied by one hundred and fifty...before I go any further I want to warn you that I'm liable to break out into bad language any minute. It gets to be a kind of habit in the army to swear every other word like." "Don't mind me," said Alexina dryly.
For my part, I could marry them both." "Ay, ay! that is all very well; but handsome is that handsome does. I have no objection to Alexina marrying, and even Helena; but then there is Lais " "Hah! hah! hah!" exclaimed the prince. "I see, my dear Christo, that my foster sisters give you a very proper portion of trouble. However, I must be off to my travelling companion.
Charlotte didn't mean the nails; she threw open a closet door and ancestral Ransomes, neatly set against the walls, peered out of the dark. Alexina put a hand over Charlotte's on the door knob. Molly yawned. "It seems chilly here in my room," said Charlotte; "the sun isn't round this side yet. Put your hats on the bed and Mrs. Garnier shall go lie on Willy's sofa."
Alexina, chaperoned by Harriet Blair, would have found herself in these things, yet never quite of them. "Malise," Molly said quite earnestly, a day or so after her coming, "don't you think it's stuffy here?" It was stuffy; hotel rooms in summer are apt to be; Alexina felt as apologetic as if Molly were the one who had given up a spacious, comfortable home to come and live in rooms for her.
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