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"I don't," said Annis, holding out her hand. "I'll say good-bye," she said steadily. "I won't see you again until my father is found. If Mr. Glover finds him I won't see you at all. Good-bye." The skipper took her hand, and marvelling at his pluck, drew her, resisting slightly, towards him again. Then he bent his head, and, with the assistance of Miss Gething, kissed the brim of her hat.
I am sure it should be accounted a very generous thing for me to do." "Certainly, captain, when you have only Cousin Vi, those two half-grown daughters, and two sweet children for your share," laughed Annis. "As many as he can keep together," remarked Walter. "Well, I'm going off by myself, as I happen to know that my sister Rosie and Evelyn have been already engaged by other escorts."
Him, an' Lize, an' Am went to Parson White's about half after seven o'clock an' was showed into the parler, an' in a minute he come in, an' after sayin' 'Good evenin'' all 'round, he says, 'Well, what c'n I do for ye? lookin' at Am an' Lize, an' then at Dick. "'Wa'al, says Am, 'me an' Mis' Annis here has ben thinkin' fer some time as how we'd ought to git married.
After speaking my mind to him and he to me, we walked down and took boat at the Tower and to Deptford, on purpose to sign and seal a couple of warrants, as justice of peace in Kent, against one Annis, who is to be tried next Tuesday, at Maidstone assizes, for stealing some lead out of Woolwich Yard. Going and coming I did discourse with Mr.
Chester was disappointed and chagrined that he was not invited to accompany them, particularly as it was his and Frank's last day at the Fair but he joined Walter and Herbert, while Harold took charge of their mother, and the other young folks went off in couples. "Where shall we betake ourselves, Miss Annis?" asked Mr. Lilburn.
Lilburn seemed to appreciate the society of Miss Annis Keith, generally contriving to get a seat in her immediate vicinity, and to engage her in conversation; that did not strike anyone as strange, however, for Annis was a general favorite with both old and young, she showing a cousinly regard for all her relatives; especially for Mrs. Travilla; for the two had been almost lifelong friends.
"Have what over?" asked Annis, smiling faintly. "Not the matrimony," laughed her sister, "but the plunge into it." "Oh, Milly dear, you wouldn't have liked to be hurried so!" "Ah, but wasn't I?" laughed Mildred; "and that by this very brother of ours who expects to perform the ceremony for you." "Ah, I don't remember about that," returned Annis, in a tone of enquiry.
Annis answered with a look, and Cicely, nestling by her mother's chair, watched her sister with wide, serious eyes. To the child standing on the threshold of womanhood the presence of love carries with it an intoxicating flavor of mystery. It is something that fills her alike with envy and a vague resentment, with wonder and an indefinable desire.
The next two weeks were those of delightful experience to all our friends, to Annis in particular, spent in visits to that beautiful Court of Honor, and to various interesting exhibits to be found in other parts of the Fair, with an occasional change of scene and occupation by a shopping excursion to Chicago in search of wedding finery.
"I'm not going in just yet," she said, glancing up the road towards her house. "I'm going for a walk." "I hope it will be a pleasant one," said Wilson, after a pause, devoted to wondering whether he might venture to offer to accompany her. "Goodbye." He held out his hand. "Good-bye," said Annis; "if you like to call in and wait to see mother she will be pleased to see you, I'm sure."
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