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'What, you assisted at this scene? said Tom, looking at her rather sharply. 'No; but Richard told me; and I heard the groans as I sat on the stairs. 'Sat on the stairs? 'Yes. I could not go back to Ave's room for fear of waking her. 'And how long? 'Towards an hour, I believe.
There, too, were her sisters, clamorous with hopes of the forest life; and there was Cora, urging the scheme with all the fervour of girlish friendship, and in herself no small element in its favour, engaging for everything, adducing precedents for every kind of comfort and success, and making Ave's consent a test of her love.
May, she said, earnestly. 'Indeed I will not be troublesome, and I can give Henry his tea, and carry Ave's cup. Please, Henry, don't send me: and she took hold of his hand, and laid it against her cheek. He bent down over her, and fondled her; and there were tears that he could not hide as he tried both to thank Dr. May, and tell her that she need not leave him. 'No, said Dr.
But at that moment the latch was raised, and the bright graceful figure of Cora stood among them, her feathered hat and delicate muslin looking as fresh as at New York. 'What, all alone! she said; 'I know it is poor Ave's sick day. Is she better? 'Yes, going to get up and come down; but and all the troubles were poured out.
Poor Minna, her sensitive little heart trembled within her at the rough contemptuous words that the exclusive, refined tone of the family always provoked, and bodily languor and weariness made the walk trying; but she was thinking of Ave's need, and resolutely took down her cloak and hat.
'O, Mary! simple Mary, you to be Ave's friend, and not know that her interposition is the only thing wanting to complete the frenzy of the other two! Ethel said little more that evening, she was too much grieved and too anxious. She was extremely disappointed in Leonard, and almost hopeless as to his future.
'It was the last thing she did say. 'Yes, so Ave's letter said. And observe, one o'clock in Indiana is half-past nine with us. Then her hair I wrote to ask, for you know it used to be in long curls, but it had been cut short, like what I saw. Surely, surely, it was the dear loving spirit allowed to show itself to me before going quite away to her home! 'And you have seen her again?
That is quite fixed; and I have had enough of playing third person, said Ella, with her precocious Western manner. 'You know I have all my own property, so I shall be on no one's hands! Oh, and Cora made her father buy all Ave's Massissauga shares at a dead loss to us of course. 'Well, said Gertrude, 'I am sorry Tom is not an American share-holder. It was such fun!
When Leonard came home with his unpresentable face, he baffled all Ave's anxious questions, and she was only enlightened by Henry's lamentations, in his absence, over the hopelessness of a brother who was so low and vulgar as to box!
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