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Cornelia, shall I tell you why you are working so close to the window this afternoon?" "You are going to say something I would rather not hear, Arenta." "Truth is wholesome, if not agreeable; and the truth is, you expect Lieutenant Hyde to pass. But he will not do so. I saw him booted and spurred, on a swift horse, going up the river road. He was bound for Hyde Manor, I am sure.
Now then, I did not wish to lend Angelica Jacobus my winders; and I said to Arenta that 'by and by I would look for them. Not far are they to seek; and for thy pleasure I will get them, and thou canst take them this evening to Arenta." "O you dear, dear grandmother!" and he stood up, and lifted her rosy face between his hands and kissed her. "I am so fond of thee," she continued.
I never knew her to make a mistake where her own interests were concerned. I told her father yesterday that it would be very difficult to corner Arenta, and comforted him beyond my hope." During this conversation Annie was in a reverie which it in no way touched.
"I thought you and I would talk things over to-night. I like to talk over a new pleasure." "Dear Arenta, we shall have so much more time, to-morrow. Come to- morrow." But Arenta was not pleased. She left her friend with an air of repressed injury, and afterwards made little remarks about Cornelia to her brother, which exactly fitted his sense of wounded pride.
If my uncle could see Rem, and yet keep his big and little oaths under bonds, I should believe in his clean tongue." "Arenta, you are tormenting yourself with anger and ill-will, and above all with jealousy. In this way you are going to miss a deal of pleasure. I advise you not to quarrel with Cornelia. She will be a great resource.
"REM went to Cornelia as they were about to leave, and he reminded her that, by her permission, he had come to walk home with her. "CORNELIA turned to Hyde, excused herself, and, cool and silent, took her place by Rem's side. "HYDE accepted the position with a smile, and a gracious bow, and then joined Arenta.
Even Arenta's peculiarly dangerous position could not detain her thoughts and interest for many minutes. "I am sorry for Arenta," she said; "no greater hell can there be, than to live in constant fear.
Now and then there came short fateful letters from Arenta, and Van Ariens utterly miserable visited them frequently that he might be comforted with their assurances of his child's ability to manage the very worst circumstances in which she could be placed.
Equally he failed to consider that his barely veiled antagonism compelled from the Doctor, and even from Cornelia and Arenta, attentions he might not otherwise have received. The Doctor was indeed much annoyed that Rem did not better respect the position of guest; while Mrs.
When Cornelia entered the Van Ariens parlour Arenta was already there. She was dressed in a gown of the blackest and softest bombazine and crape. It had a distinguishing want of all ornament, but it was for that reason singularly effective against her delicate complexion and pale golden hair.
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