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"Is this what you mean, Cousin Theodora: that it will be a good idea, for me to do things with Allyn, to care for the things he likes, and, if he gets cross and goes off not to care, but just go after him and bring him back again?" "If you feel as if you could, Cicely." "I do; I'd be glad to.
His hands closed nervously, and he studied the horizon with half-shut eyes. In the course of our talk Admiral Allyn had admitted that the United States was woefully unprepared for conflict with a great power, either on sea or land. "The blow will be struck suddenly," he went on, "you may be sure of that.
In such moods, Allyn was well-nigh irresistible, and it was with genuine regret that Cicely turned her face towards home. Her regret, however, was as nothing in comparison with the consternation that seized her, as she entered the house. Before the fireplace in the hall, there always lay the skin of a superb tiger.
Allyn can fight and run away; that makes him doubly dangerous. He does fight, too. He is a dear boy, Billy; but I honestly think that, if he goes on, he won't have a friend left in town. He is a veritable porcupine, and his quills are always rising." "He has the worst of it. But I do wish you needn't worry about him, Ted"
"Mayn't I go, too, Allyn?" "If you want to. I sha'n't be back in time for the bathing hour, though," he answered; but his eyes belied the scant cordiality of his words. For more than an hour, they sat on the high bluff that juts seaward at the south of the town.
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A civil court would have had power to drag an unwilling witness before it and compel his or her testimony; a military court has neither, so long as the desired person is not in the military service, which Miss Allyn and some sixty million others at that time could not be said to be. A sensation was "sprung" on the court at this juncture by the defense.
Failing that, she lectured him roundly. Failing again, she turned her back upon him and left him severely alone, with the result that, in an inconceivably short time, Allyn generally came to terms and exerted himself to be agreeable once more. Allyn still kept up the pretence of indifference to her, of superiority over her; Cicely had no pretences.
She plays a smashing game; but there's no sort of sense in the way she goes about it." Theodora yawned. "Babe is upsetting all my ideas," she said languidly. "I had always regarded golf as a suitable amusement for stout elderly persons who waddled, a good deal like the caucus race in Alice. Babe's vigor fairly takes my breath away." "Same with her swimming," Allyn remarked, with a certain pride.
"Allyn," Cicely said breathlessly, as she dashed into the library at The Savins, half an hour later; "you are invited to a dinner party at our house, this day week." "Thanks. I'll come, and please have lots of sticky jelly things." "But you aren't invited to eat. I want you in the kitchen to help me." "Not much! I'm going somewhere else, that night." "You can't beg off.
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