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Updated: June 3, 2025
'Oh, the country! when shall we go there? sighed Minna. 'Your head aches to-night, my dear, said Averil, looking anxiously at her listless attitude, half-opened eyes, and the deep hollows above her collar-bones. 'It always does after the gas is lighted, said the child, patiently, 'it is always so hot here. 'It is just like being always in the conservatory at the Grange, added Ella.
'Oh, don't you know, Hetta Mary went home this morning because Henry asked her where his boots were, and she thought he wanted her to clean them. 'Can't Mrs. Shillabeer come in! 'Mrs. Shillabeer said she would never come in again, because Averil asked her not to hold the ham by the bone and cut it with her own knife when Henry was there! Come, Ella it is of no use.
The Doctor was served in the study alone with Henry, and after the briefest meal, was on his way to Bankside. He found Averil with the crimson cheek and beseeching eye that he knew so well, as she laid her trembling hand on his, and mutely looked up like a dumb creature awaiting a blow.
Ella had joined Rosa Willis, and the other children; but Minna, as usual, kept under her sister's wing, and Averil could not bear to shake herself free of the gentle child.
"If there were the smallest danger of a rising you wouldn't be here." "Quite true," laughed Mrs. Raymond, "unless the road to Fort Akbar is considered unsafe." "I never saw a single border thief all the way here!" declared Derrick, departing to look for Averil. He claimed the first waltz imperiously, and she gave it to him.
'Hush! Henry looked about with a startled eye and repressing gesture. Averil drew back, and, one hand on her bosom, pressing the letter, and almost holding down a sob, she took her accustomed seat at the meal. Minna, too languid for the rapidity of the movements, hardly made the exertion of tasting food.
'Ah, I have nothing to send her but my love! And I may send her that still, said Minna, looking up wistfully at Averil, who bent down and kissed her. 'And Ave won't let me send mine to Mr. Tom, though I'm sure I do love him the best of them all, said Ella.
'Yes, my dear, he said, tenderly, 'your brother needs prayer such as when we watched him last year, he is in peril of grave suspicion. And as she stood waiting and watching for further explanation, he continued, 'My dear, he told you everything. You do not know of any notion of his of going away, or going out without leave? 'Why is Leonard to be always suspected of such things? cried Averil.
'There may be quite as many casualties, quoth Tom, indulging in some of the current ready-made wit on the dangers of volunteering, for the pure purpose of teasing; but he was vigorously fallen upon by Harry and Ethel, and Averil brightened as she heard him put to the rout. The shots were already heard, when two more black figures were seen in the distance, going towards the gate.
"Look here, Averil!" he said doggedly. "If you won't have me, I'm not going to hang about after you like a tame monkey. It's going to be one thing or the other. I've made a big enough fool of myself over you. We can't be chums, as you call it" a passionate ring crept into his voice "when all the while you're holding me off at arm's length as if I'd got the plague.
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