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Bea half hoped and expected that they would find Ernestine sitting by the fire, full of laugh, and ready to tease them on their fright and search; but she was disappointed, for the room was dreary and lonely, the light wood fire having died of neglect; and everything looked unutterably forlorn to their anxious eyes.
Sir Feeble, and Sir Cautious. Bea. You are a Traveller, I understand. Bel. I have seen a little part of the World, Sir. Bea. So have I, Sir, I thank my Stars, and have performed most of my Travels on Foot, Sir. Bel. You did not travel far then, I presume, Sir? Bea. No, Sir, it was for my diversion indeed; but I assure you, I travell'd into Ireland a-foot, Sir. Bel.
I protest, Sir, I love and honour him, but I am now just going to be married, Sir; and when that Ceremony's past, I'm ready to go to the Devil as soon as you please. Gay. I have told him your Desire of seeing him, and shou'd you baffle him? Bea. Who, I, Sir! Pray, let his Worship know, I shall be proud of the Honour of his Acquaintance; but, Sir, my Mistress and the Parson wait in Ned's Chamber.
"It was mostly due to her that I came to college," continued Bea with an effort to speak naturally though her fingers shook the least bit in their grasp of the brush, and one anxious eye was watching Lila's face. "I've known her all my life. She persuaded the family to send me, and she tutored me last summer and helped in a million different ways. You don't understand how much I owe her.
Jean is asleep on the porch, and mama is out showing Huldah how to make cream puffings." "Dear me," said Bea, by way of answer and looking up with a slight pucker to her smooth forehead, "Just look at those girls; I never saw the like."
He declared that they had been fed on tip-top feeding: which was literally true, as he afterwards admitted that the tops of nettles and potato stalks constituted the only nourishment they had got for three weeks before. The Yorkshireman looked with great contempt upon what he considered a miserable essay to take him in. "What a fule this Hirishmun mun bea;" said he, "to think to teake me in!
"Well, I think weddings are splendid, though I wish you wasn't going to have a new home, Bea," remarked Jean with regret, as she tied on her hat, and shook hands with her new brother. "I shall miss you dreadfully, and our room will seem so lonely," was Olive's next remark. "But you must not let us be apart much." "I will not," said Bea with full heart and eyes.
"She's cross as a bear that's what I think," snapped Bea, "and Sarah has dark circles under her eyes. It's dreadful those two girls who used to be inseparable! Quarrels are are horrible!" The impetus of this conviction almost succeeded in hurling its proprietor against the water cooler at the bathroom door.
"Perhaps I will some time, if I find that you are glad to see me when I come back," answered Ralph with a mysterious smile. "Can you ever doubt that?" asked Bea. "After the blessing and comfort that you have been to us all? I don't know what we ever will do without you, Ralph; it will be so lonesome."
It's all in the future, you see, and I'd be so ashamed to have the girls quoting her now. If I shouldn't win the fellowship, if I had to go to teaching next year and give it up " Bea pounced upon her. "You're a nice sweet girl, and I love you to distraction. Don't you worry about that fellowship, but trot up-stairs with me this instant and help hammer the covers off those boxes.
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