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You know, Berta, this is how it was, you know: I thought you and Mr. Julian were in the drawing-room, and wouldn't want him to see ye together, and so I asked him to step into the liberry a minute.
Lila dropped into a rattan chair and idly tossed the corks from hand to hand. "Aren't you planning a long time ahead? Your family knows exactly what to send in a box. That last was the most delicious thing! I suppose we'll just ask our crowd of freshmen, Berta and Gertrude and the rest."
Christopher drew her towards him, and imprinted a kiss upon her cheek, at which Picotee was not so wretched as she had been some years before when he mistook her for another in that performance. 'Berta will never let us come to want, she said, with vivacity, when she had recovered. 'She always gives me what is necessary.
She took two steps hastily away from the spot; then turned slowly and glanced in at the soft heap of white showing dimly on the darker blur of the pillow. She certainly did not propose to spend the entire night in playing nurse to anybody, especially after Bea had insulted her so unpardonably. It had been Bea's idea all along too, and Berta had worked herself nearly to death to make it a success.
For the first time in his life he had called and found her out. He rang the door-bell in a stupor of disappointment. For just a moment the sense of disaster was so complete it was ridiculous. A maid answered at last and ushered him into the dimly lighted parlour. "Miss Nan is at home, Berta?" he asked eagerly. The little Danish maid smiled knowingly: "Na, but Meesis Primrose "
That portmantle didn't cost more than three half-crowns altogether, and ten pound wouldn't ha' got anything so strong from a portmantle maker, would it, Dan? 'Well, no. 'And then you see, Berta, Sol continued in the same earnest tone, and further exhibiting the article, 'I've made this trap-door in the top with hinges and padlock complete, so that
She read it slowly and drew a deep breath. "So we can't go after all," she said. Berta seemed to wake up suddenly from a trance. "Robbie Belle!" "I can't help it," doggedly though the smooth forehead had clouded in a quick frown of pain at the cry, "it would not be honest. I didn't know before." "It's our own money," protested Berta defiantly. "But our scholarships are the same as borrowed."
Lila almost fainted away, because she hates writing anything, even letters home. Robbie Belle looked scared, and I opened my mouth so wide that my jaw ached for several minutes afterward. But Berta kept her wits about her. She said, "Miss Anglin, we are all living here together, and we see the same things every day. I'm afraid you'll be bored when you read about them over and over.
"There are the girls now clamoring for admission. It must be the hour for the sale to begin. Isn't it fun! Fly, Berta Abbott, flee and bury your blushes. The play is now on." Berta fled. She felt an impulse to creep away into some dark corner till all the excitement and criticism had subsided. Of course, it was rather pleasant, she acknowledged reluctantly to her candid self.
Gertrude listened unsuspiciously to the flurried explanation that Berta was kept by a a a friend, before she revealed the brimming trophy from dessert. Bea clapped her hands. "Oh, you darling! the very thing! Won't that pup" an abrupt and convulsive cough subsided brilliantly into, "that pet of a Berta be pleased! I'll take it to her this instant."
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