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Miss Alicia's surprised expression made him laugh. "Do you think he will come back?" she exclaimed. "After such a long visit?" "Oh, yes, he'll come back. He'll come back as often as he can until he's got a chunk of my income to treble or until I've done with him." "Until you've done with him, dear?" inquiringly.
The way the poor little darling came to tumble was, that he was out of the Princess Alicia's lap just as she was sitting, in a great coarse apron that quite smothered her, in front of the kitchen-fire, beginning to peel the turnips for the broth for dinner; and the way she came to be doing that was, that the king's cook had run away that morning with her own true love, who was a very tall but very tipsy soldier.
"It's this," said Dolly, solemnly, "Alicia is planning to elope with Marly Turner." There were four astonished faces that greeted this announcement, but none showed such blank amazement as Alicia's own. "Oh, Dolly!" she cried. "Oh, Dolly Fayre! You will be the death of me yet! Go on, tell them more!" "That's about all I know.
"Anyone could," he said cheerfully; "she presents herself. One is only the humblest possible medium. And the most passive." Alicia's eyes still rested upon the light from the window. It silhouetted a rare fern from Assam, it certainly rewarded them. "I like to hear you talk about her. Tell me some more." "Haven't I exhausted metaphor in describing her?"
As she stood there, rising from behind the wall, flushed, quivering, abandoned to an emotion and yet unconsciously dignified by that peculiar stateliness that never left her as she stood there it seemed as if she really was offering a challenge. "I'll fetch Mag, if you like," said Edwin. "Well," said Janet, lifting her chin proudly, "it isn't a secret. Alicia's engaged."
Doubtless Hilda would have dwelt longer upon such a dinner-party than I, with no consolatory bone to gnaw in private, find myself inclined to do. To me it is depressing and a little cruel to be compelled to betray the inadequacy of the personal element at Alicia's banquets, especially in connection with the conspicuous excellence of the cooking.
I love my nieces equally, and the thing that settled the question in my mind was a letter I received to-day from Alicia's father." "I know!" cried Alicia, "I had one, too. I didn't say anything about it, because Dad asked me not to. You tell, Uncle Jeff." "It's this," said Mr. Forbes. "Alicia's father is to be married soon.
Alicia looked pensively at the olive between her finger and thumb. "Thank Heaven you can't," Duff said warmly. It was a little odd, the personal note. Alicia's eyes remained upon the olive. "It's all she lives for." "Well," Duff declared, "I can imagine higher ends." "You're not abusing Hilda!" Alicia said, addressing the olive. "Not at all. Only vindicating you."
While I was sitting with Alicia's head against my knee, a light, swift footstep sounded overhead in the attic, followed by a sort of stumble, as if somebody had slipped on one of those unexpected steps. Alicia rose quickly. "Sophy," she breathed, "I have thought, once or twice, that I heard somebody walking in the attic."
"Yours affectionately, There was a silence, Mr. Palford passed the paper to his partner, who gave it careful study. Afterward he refolded it and handed it back to Miss Alicia. "In a court of law," was Mr. Palford's sole remark, "it would not be regarded as evidence for the defendant." Miss Alicia's tears were still streaming, but she held her ringleted head well up. "I cannot stay!
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