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A moment later she was thankful that she had made no objections, as Sylvia Trevor's name from Bridgie's lips convinced her that here at least a stand must be made. "Oh, my dear, it is no use asking Miss Trevor. She is lame, and I shall have enough to do without looking after invalids." "She would come with us, and we would take care of her. The boys are so fond of Sylvia.
If we don't look after the tea, no one else will." He smiled at her as he spoke, not sentimentally this time, but with a straightforward kindliness which showed that he had understood and sympathised with her embarrassment. Occupation for hand and mind was the most tactful comfort which he could have administered, and Bridgie's eager, "Oh, thank you, dear!
Jack's handsome features and commanding stature made him appear a type of young manhood, Miles for once forgot to grimace, and Pat's misleading air of innocence was even more guileless and touching than usual. As for the girls, Esmeralda looked like a picture by Rossetti, and Bridgie's halo of golden hair was more bewitching than ever in its sombre setting.
"Me I have seen a hundred men, but a hundred, all the same as thou every day I promenade me in Paris!" And Jack smiled and, to Bridgie's surprise, allowed himself to be disfigured without a protest a surprising thing when a pretty girl was among the spectators.
"I do!" replied Sylvia, with much truth. Red as a rose was she, at this sudden and public announcement of her engagement, not knowing where to look, or what to say, yet with a consciousness of immense happiness to come, and unfeigned delight at the happy ending to Bridgie's love-story.
Bridgie's forehead was fretted with anxious lines, but Pixie nodded back cheery reassurement. "Don't you repine about me, for I got on famously, and Mrs Wallace is coming herself to see you in the afternoon. I've engaged myself as a French lady to amuse the children, and you shall have the money to pay the bills.
I'm glad you are coming into the family, but I don't see how you can ever be married! She can't be spared!" The Captain laughed at that statement, and vowed that she would have to be spared, and that at an early date; but a shadow fell across Bridgie's face, and as they sat alone in the garden she said anxiously "I am afraid I have been selfish, Dick!
They seemed very happy together, this young husband and wife, and as Bridgie saw them smile at one another across the table, for no other reason than pure happiness and content in each other's presence; when Esmeralda announced "Geoffrey says," as the definite conclusion of any argument, and Geoffrey said quietly, "Esmeralda likes it!" as though the fact debarred all further discussion when she heard and saw all this, the pain which was so bravely buried in Bridgie's heart seemed to take a fresh lease of life, and stab her with the memory of dead hopes.
Downstairs in the dining-room Miss Munns had been consulting with Whitey as to how the patient was to be prepared for the ordeal of to-morrow, and by whom the news should be broken. Whitey had taken the task upon herself with the unselfish heroism of her profession, but her pretty face was worn with the strain of this long anxious case, and Bridgie's heart had ached for her in her painful task.
Bridgie walked forward and put an anxious Inquiry, whereupon the fat lady leapt up in alarm, and there against the back of the chair lay a poor flattened object, with battered crown and crestfallen bows all that was left of Bridgie's very best hat!
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