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You remember that brief little fortnight that we spent with mother and father in Italy? I seem now to be again under the spell of the languorous airs, the cloudless blue, the white palaces, the grey olive groves, and the art, the art! Oh, Algitha, I must go to the South soon, soon, or I shall die of home sickness!
Walker glanced nervously at her astonished girls. Lady Engleton pointed out that had Caterina been situated in a more ordinary manner, she would have certainly broken her parents' hearts and embittered their last years, to say nothing of the husband and perhaps the children, who would have suffered for want of a mother's care. "But why should the husband suffer?" asked Algitha.
She had to summon her intelligence to the rescue. The Fullerton stock had never been deficient in this particular. In difficult moments, when rule and tradition had done their utmost, Hadria had often some original device to suggest, to fit the individual case, which tided them over a crisis, or avoided some threatening predicament. "Are you sleeping?" asked Algitha, very softly.
I felt like the poor sapling in the cranny, that had just the same natural impetus of healthy growth as all the others, but was forced to become twisted, and crooked, and stunted and wretched. I think most women have to grow in a cranny. It is generally known as their Sphere." Algitha gave an approving chuckle.
The boys and Algitha had come to spend Saturday and Sunday at the Red House. There was a yell of laughter. Hadria advanced across the lawn with quiet dignity, bearing her card-case as one who takes part in a solemn ceremony. "Where did you fall in with that casket?" enquired Fred. "And who was the architect of the cathedral?" asked Ernest. "This casket, as you call it, was presented to me by Mrs.
But truly it seems, sometimes, as if people were determined to turn affection into a curse instead of a blessing!" "I never think of it in any other light," Algitha announced serenely. The Professor laughed. "Oh, there are exceptions, I hope," he said. "Love, like everything else that is great, is very, very rare.
But as a rule, she would afterwards be seized with a fit of remorse, knowing that her mother was suffering bitterly from her keen disappointment about Algitha. The failure of a life-long hope must try the endurance of the bravest. Mrs.
Lady Engleton admired Algitha, who was standing with Ernest a little apart from the group. "She is like your wife, and yet there is a singular difference in the expression." Lady Engleton was too discreet to say that Mrs. Temperley lacked the look of contentment and serenity that was so marked in her sister's face. "Algitha is a thoroughly sensible girl," said the brother-in-law.
Let me at least play the humble rôle of scarecrow. I am in excellent condition for it," she added, grasping her thin wrist. Algitha shook her head anxiously. "I fear," she said, "that the moral that most people will draw will be: 'Follow in the path of Mrs. Gordon, however distasteful it may seem to you, and whatever temptations you feel towards a more independent life.
Gordon and her party were among the last to leave, having a shorter distance to go. Hubert Temperley was quiet and self-possessed, but Algitha felt sure that she detected a look of suppressed exultation in his demeanour, and something odiously brotherly in his mode of bidding them all good-night.
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