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Updated: June 21, 2025
There was another thing never satisfactorily explained to some of the garrison people, and that was Nina Beaubien's strange conduct. In less than a week she was seen on the street in colors, brilliant colors, when it was known she had ordered deep mourning, and then she suddenly disappeared and went with her silent old mother abroad.
You know, Kit, our Peg is president of the Portia Dramatic Club, and the mantle doth not rest lightly on her young shoulders." But Kit could not be diverted, and the color rose somewhat belligerently in Amy's cheeks, too; "I don't see," she said, "why you feel that you have to take Marcelle Beaubien's part. If you knew all about her the way we girls do, you'd let her alone."
I question your wisdom, but, upon my soul, I admire your bravery and spirit. You have cleared him of a terrible charge." A most disdainful and impatient shrug of her shapely shoulders was Miss Beaubien's only answer to that allusion. The possibility of Mr. Jerrold's being suspected of another entanglement was something she would not tolerate: "I know nothing of other people's affairs.
I wish " and he looked wistfully, earnestly, at his favorite now, "I wish I could think it wasn't for the sake of Miss Beaubien's black eyes and aboriginal beauty." "Look here, captain," said Rollins, with another rush of color to his face; "you don't seem to fancy Miss Beaubien, and she's a friend of mine, and one I don't like to hear slightingly spoken of.
"I'm sure you never had a word to say against her father. The old colonel was a perfect type of the French gentleman, from all I hear." "Yes, and her mother is as perfect a type of a Chippewa squaw, if she is only a half-breed and claims to be only a sixteenth. Rollins, there's Indian blood enough in Nina Beaubien's little finger to make me afraid of her.
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