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So, then, until to-morrow." Law watched his two friends ride away, then he wiped his Winchester and saw to his cinch. This done he raised Bessie Belle's head and kissed the lip that had so often explored his palm for sugar. With a miserable ache in his throat he mounted and rode off to pick up the trail of the man on the sorrel pony.
Katherine had not been able to think of a name. Maurice's was "The Arden Foresters," suggested, he said, by Belle's "Robin Hood." "I believe it is the best," said Rosalind, and so they all agreed finally, and the new society was named. "Now we must have a book and write in it what we promise," said Belle. "Let's appoint Rosalind and Maurice to draw up a what do you call it?" suggested Jack.
She took a liking to the place, and there are some that pretend to ken, that say she took mair than a liking to the Laird's son. I would not say for that; he was a brisk lad for so douce a lady. We'll say naething about that, Hamish; ye ken what came on him: his horse threw him at the Laird's Turn yonder, and he never steered he was by wi' it." "What has this to do with Belle's wean?" said I.
Rosalie, in business, was not a guest at all in Aunt Belle's sense of the word: indeed there came an occasion Rosalie twice in one week late for dinner when Aunt Belle said awfully, "My house is not a hotel, Rosalie. I cannot have my nice house turned into a hotel."
It was not until Dave signaled quietly that Dalzell came over to take Belle's proffered hand and chat for a moment. The talk was all too short for all concerned. A call of the bugle signaled the midshipmen to leave friends and hasten back for assembly. It was not until the train had started away from Philadelphia that Dave and Dan were all but mobbed by way of congratulation.
Belle's hands were locked together in her lap, and her lips were pressed in a thin line as if she were trying to keep from saying something. Several times in the semi-darkness of the house her handkerchief went furtively to her eyes. Georgina's heart beat faster.
Now don't preach, but put my cloak on nicely, and come along, for I 'm to meet Tom and Trix, and promised to be there early." Polly was to be left at home after depositing Fan at Belle's. "I feel as if I was going myself," she said, as they rolled along. "I wish you were, and you would be, Polly, if you weren't such a resolute thing.
When Rosalie for the weekly dinner at Aunt Belle's used to dress in the evening frock of Laetitia's given her for the purpose by Aunt Belle, she used, at first, to say to Miss Salmon, "There, how do I look, Gertrude? Can you see that mend in the lace?" This was a small thing, but it was an important small thing.
With her very limited attainments, standing behind a counter seemed the only opening that the family would consider, and it was eventually agreed upon, after a very reluctant consent from her father. Only the least of Belle's difficulties were past when she obtained consent to stand behind a counter.
Carson was sure he knew in what school such manual dexterity had been acquired. The doubts in Belle's mind had not yet taken definite form when a new and unpleasant circumstance obtruded. More than once lately Lowe had come to the house carrying the unmistakable odour of drink about him. It was smothered with cloves and peppermint, but still discoverable.
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