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He always used to look so when mother went for 'im and hung around 'im. At last he cleared mother out, and just before he looked as black as he did when he passed the house while ago. You're good to me, an' I'd like you to stay. 'Fi's you I'd leave 'im alone." "Jane," said Alida coldly, "I don't wish you ever to speak to me of such things again," and she hastily left the room.
Puzzled and trembling, Alida entered the apartment where Holcroft was seated. She was so embarrassed that she could not lift her eyes to him. "Please sit down," he said gravely, "and don't be troubled, much less frightened. You are just as free to act as ever you were in your life."
"That's a good girl!" said Alida, wishing to encourage her. "I was afraid at first you wouldn't mind me so readily." "He told me to. He'd fire me out the window if I didn't mind you." "Oh, no! I think he's very kind to you." "Well, he's kind to you, too." "Yes, he has always been kind to me," said Alida gently and lingeringly, as if the thought were pleasant to dwell upon.
Not long ago my heart was breaking because I was friendless and in trouble. What could I think of myself if I did not entreat you in behalf of this poor child?" "Thunder!" ejaculated Holcroft. "I guess I was rather friendless and troubled myself, and I didn't know the world had in it such a good friend as you've become, Alida. Well, well!
A lazy war and a distant enemy make you seamen the lords of the land, Captain Ludlow." Alida blushed still deeper, hesitated, and then, by a movement that was half involuntary, she waved her handkerchief. The young Patroon arose, and answered the salutation by a courteous bow.
Ludlow followed with Alida, and the others intimated their example in the best manner they could. All reached the head of the ship in safety; though Ludlow had been driven by the flames into the fore-channels, and thence nearly into the sea.
She lifted the little rose-jar for one more whiff of its faint, sweet fragrance, and said, slowly, as she closed it again, "And as long as I live the thought of her will help to take the sting out of all my thorns." With a sigh of relief Alida Gooding saw the dentist put away his instruments.
"Propriety and discretion!" observed the burgher, in reply to a remark of one of the young men "I say again, for the twentieth time, that we shall have Alida Barbérie back among us, as handsome, as innocent, ay, and as rich, as ever! perhaps I should also say, as wilful. A baggage, to worry her old uncle, and two honorable suitors, in so thoughtless a manner!
Something seemed sweeping after her, and she dared not turn and look it in the face. But her heart told her it was the moment that would come after her work had been accomplished and Newell had found Alida. As if she had known it would be so, she saw him coming down the road and called to him. He was walking very fast, his head up, and his hands, she presently saw, clenched as they swung.
"Where did you learn to cook, Alida?" he asked. "Mother wasn't very strong and her appetite often failed her. Then, too, we hadn't much to spend on our table so we tried to make simple things taste nice. Do you like my way of preparing that old-fashioned dish?" "I'm going to show you how I like it," he replied, nodding approvingly.
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