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And for this reason he had, from time to time, deferred the visit to Avis, which he had designed, and which she would naturally expect on his return from the expedition. But still he could not see how a quarrel between the fathers discharged him from his obligations to her; and he grew more and more doubtful and uneasy in the position he found himself occupying.
I had been so carried away by the topics which I had feared were going to be uninteresting that I had lost some of the restlessness of the morning, but as our sitting broke up and I noticed it was drawing near noon my anxious thoughts returned. Finding Fronda and learning from her from what direction Avis might be expected to come, I determined to go out alone and see if I could meet her.
Muriel was two rows in front, and Jean a little to her left, and in the hasty glance she was able to bestow she noticed Avis and two of the other companions with whom she had travelled to Morton on the day of her arrival.
"Then she's the meanest, nastiest girl in the whole school, and I shall just tell her so," said Enid, flushing quite scarlet with righteous wrath. "I never thought much of her, but I didn't believe she'd have done such a horrid thing as this. She deserves to be sent to Coventry for it." "Didn't Miss Lincoln ask anybody to be friends with you?" enquired Avis.
Your second request, namely, for a man capable of understanding and seconding your projects, requires me to find you a rara avis such as we seldom raise in the provinces, where, if we do raise them, we never keep them. The education of that high product is too slow and too risky a speculation for country folks. Besides, men of intellect alarm us; we call them "originals."
If I could only get up a second appetite, I should like to begin tea over again." "You can have some more if you like. Miss Lincoln doesn't limit you," laughed Avis. "No, thank you. The copybooks say: 'Never attempt impossibilities'. I shall go and sit on the edge of the cliff." "Come with me," said Winnie, "and we'll have a game of golf just to ourselves, with two sticks and an indiarubber ball.
The Malay traders gave them the name of "Manuk dewata," or God's birds; and the Portuguese, finding that they had no feet or wings, and not being able to learn anything authentic about then, called them "Passaros de Col," or Birds of the Sun; while the learned Dutchmen, who wrote in Latin, called them "Avis paradiseus," or Paradise Bird.
You don't know the sin of keeping back such a a a galaxy as I am from the church. I say you don't know the sin of it. That's the difficulty. If it was a common case it would be nothing! but to keep back a person like me a rara avis in terris from the priesthood, is a sin that requires a great dale of interest with the Pope to have absolved." "Heaven above forgive me!" exclaimed the artless girl.
Let me complete my proof by saying that you are visiting, with Zenith and Thorwald, at the house of Fronda, and have heard me sing two nights in succession." "Then," I exclaimed, with sorrow and despair in my voice, "I have indeed found Avis, but, alas! I have once more lost Mona." "How so?" "Why, don't you see? I expected to find Mona and lose Avis.
My theory has been proved; it has made me a famous man. Last Christmas, Avis, I told you of it, and you listened and understood and believed in it. Dear Avis, once again I thank you for all you have been to me all you are yet. I have brought you your roses; they are as white and pure and fragrant as your life."
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