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"I repeat it you are either a fool or blind, or both!" she continued. "But I am neither, and I know you love my niece, and she loves you, and I know too that you think she is engaged to Neil McPherson, but she is not." "What!" Grey exclaimed, starting to his feet. "What are you saying?" "I am saying that Bessie's engagement was broken before she left England, and that she " "She what?"
All that they could gather from Bessie's confused account of the surprise by the Indians, and her own escape, served to make the party feel that further effort was almost hopeless still they would not despair. It was decided that one of their number should take the rescued girl back to her mother, while the rest should proceed in their search.
She could hear that name with composure now, and was proving an apt pupil in the manners of society. Mrs. Stokes scanned her in some perplexity, and would have had her discourse of the occupations and diversions of Brentwood, but all Bessie's inclination was to discourse of those precious boys in Minster Court.
The poor lady could not always keep before her mind the fate of Lot's wife, and often cast longing eyes towards the pleasant, easeful land that had been home. "And I am not always inclined to take Bessie's opinion as to what is a lady or what is a gentleman." "Bessie does not think so much as you do, Deleah." "I don't know that I think: I feel," Deleah explained.
They were not a dozen paces from the gates when the wicket was opened by a sister, and Mr. Frederick Fairfax came out. Bessie's face flushed and her eyes filled with tears of compassion. "You know where I have been, then, Elizabeth?" said he "to visit my poor wife.
"The Lord is a goin' to take that little one to Himself, teacher," she said to me, very impressively. Captain Sartell had not yet returned with the doctor. Possibly he had been obliged to drive to the next town. Poor Mrs. Sartell was nearly distracted. Bessie's fever had gone to the brain.
Such are sure to lose the grace of God from their hearts." Bessie's little brother, Leroy, now past five years of age, was far from being rugged. Though he had a full, round face and a large head, his body was emaciated and did not develop properly. He could go only a few steps without falling. He had fainting spells, which gradually increased in frequency and duration. Many times as Mrs.
Laurence Fairfax was half amused at the method by which his father had evaded Bessie's bold attempt to rule him, and his blossom of a wife was much too happy to care for the old squire's perversity unless he cared; but they were both sorry for Bessie. "My grandfather lets me have everything but what I want," she said with a tinge of rueful humor.
And before she slept she wrote to her bankers in London, bidding them forward to Bessie's address another hundred pounds, and charge it to her account.
Bessie, however, need not have worried about the quality of that pie. The rapidity with which it disappeared was the best possible evidence of its goodness, and Wanaka commended her before all the girls, who were willing enough to join the leader in singing Bessie's praises. "My, but that was good!" said Minnehaha. "I wish I could make a pie like that! My pastry is always heavy.
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