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Carew's memory was still lingering a young girl's "Sometimes I wonder there don't some of 'em think of helpin' the girls BEFORE they go wrong." Perhaps in her ears was still ringing Pollyanna's story of that same girl who had found a crowd in a big city the loneliest place in the world, yet who had refused to go with the handsome man that had "noticed too much." Perhaps in Mrs.
"No, no; it is not that," broke in the other, hastily. "It lies with yourself to grant my request. I wish to hear from you the true story of Carew's marriage with my mother." "The true story?" echoed Parson Whymper. "Nay; I can not vouch for being possessed of that.
That evening at nine o'clock the parlour-maid announced that Major Carew's soldier servant wished to see Captain Fanshawe on a message from his master, and Erskine gave instructions that he should be sent round to the verandah, and stepped out of the window, leaving Claire wondering and discomfited. What had happened? Was the impostor not to be found?
Then suddenly one aspect of the position became concrete to her imagination. She knew that the cloak was bought with ill-gotten money. Her enormous allowance after she came of age, even the expenses of her education Miss Carew's salary among other things had been won by fraud.
"AUNT RUTH!" he exclaimed, looking from one to the other with startled eyes. "AUNT RUTH! You don't mean " All the blood receded from Mrs. Carew's face, and from Jimmy's, too. John Pendleton, however, advanced jauntily. "Yes, Jamie; why not? I was going to tell you soon, anyway, so I'll tell you now." Carew made me the happiest of men by saying yes to a certain question I asked.
Did you hear what Kashaqua says: that she will take me to Aunt Prissy's to-morrow?" said Faith. The Indian woman had turned quickly, and her sharp little eyes were fixed on Mrs. Carew's face. "You 'fraid let little girl go with Kashaqua?" she said, a little accusing note in her voice. "No, indeed. Kashaqua would take good care of Faith. I know that. But to-morrow " Mrs.
I bowed; but as she passed near me in going out, I whispered in her ear: "I should suggest that we hold our talk anywhere but at Mrs. Carew's house, since she is liable to be the chief subject of our conversation." "Now?" "Now, more than ever. Her share in the child's disappearance was not eliminated or affected in any way by the destruction of her footprints."
Carew's nimble and gracious figure descending the stairs in all eagerness to greet me. "What is it?" she asked, running hastily forward so that we met in the center of the hall. "Good news? Nothing else could have brought you back again so soon and at an hour so late." There was a dangerous naïveté in the way she uttered the last three words which made me suspect the actress.
Dame Lovell sent with him one of her own servants, a man who she knew would imperil his own life sooner than that of Richard; and he returned to her in a few days with the welcome tidings that he had seen Richard safely embarked on a vessel for La Rochelle, with Master Carew's son, a youth of about eighteen, as his squire.
This alarmed Mrs. Goff, who knew by experience that it was easier to drive Alice upon rash resolves than to shake her in them afterwards. Fear of incurring blame in Wiltstoken for wantonly opposing her daughter's obvious interests, and of losing her share of Miss Carew's money and countenance, got the better of her jealousy.
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