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"According to age," Alix pursued, in one of her absurdly argumentative moments, "Anne should have married Peter, Cherry, Justin, and I, Martin. But the truth is, we didn't seem to give the matter sufficient thought!" "Girls never do; it isn't expected!" Mrs. North said, with her indulgent laugh, as they followed Peter into the empty kitchen which smelled of dry woods and drains.
They forgot all about “Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality”—these egotistical, narrow-minded young people;—they also forgot the characteristic alternative to those unparalleled blessings—“Death.” But Prosper Alix did not forget any of these things; and his consternation, his provision of suffering for his beloved daughter, were terrible, when she told him, with a simple noble frankness which the grandes dames of the dead-and-gone time of great ladies had rarely had a chance of exhibiting, that she loved M. Paul de Sénanges, and intended to marry him when the better times should come.
And she was writing of a handsome, incredibly valiant hero, whilst he he was writing of her! Time and again his hand, in seeking the ink, had touched the hand of his heroine, she remembered once jabbing her pen into his less nimble finger as she went impatiently to the fount of romance, and he had exclaimed with a grimace: "Gee, you must have struck a snag, Alix!"
He was right in surmising that this was the support from which Quill's rope or vine ladder was suspended a hundred years ago. Nearby were two heavy iron rings attached to standards sunk firmly into the rock, a modern improvement on the hermit's crude device. Turning back, he approached the heap of boulders that covered the grave of Edward and Alix Crown.
There were other flowers all about, and there were women in the room. White draperies fell with sweeping lines from the merciful veiling of the crushed figure, and Alix might have been only asleep, and dreaming some heroic dream that lent that secret pride and joy to her mouth and filled those closed eyes with a triumph they had never known in life.
Peter, she explained between kisses, had had to go to Los Angeles three days ago, had been expected home last night, and was not even aware yet that Cherry was definitely arriving. "Of course he knew that you were coming, but not exactly when," Alix said, as she guided the newcomer along the familiar ferry place on to the big bay steamer for Mill Valley.
He saw a smile flicker on her face in the moonlight, but when she spoke, it was with almost tearful gravity: "You arrange it, Peter, and somehow I'll go. I'll write Alix I'll tell her that where she's sane, I'm mad, and where she's strong, I'm weak! And we'll weather it, dear, and we'll find ourselves somewhere, alone, with all the golden, beautiful future before us.
After one of these performances she would not leave her flat for several days, but would sit dreaming over the thought of herself in the heroine's role. One day she had a letter from Alix; it gave her a heartache, she hardly knew why.
"I had a fancy that he might have been putting notions into her head," her father said, anxious to be reassured. "But great Scott!" Peter said, his face very red, "she's much younger than Anne and Alix " "It doesn't always go by that," the doctor suggested. "No, I know it doesn't," Peter answered in his quick, annoyed fashion. "I should be sorry," Cherry's father admitted. "Sorry!"
She looked not at him, but at the dead man on the window-seat, her hands clasping and unclasping. "Madame Alix," he said, at last, "you know our errand we must carry it out." She bowed her head. "I know it, monsieur," she answered. "But for him, there would have been no such errand. As it is, I will help you all I can.
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