Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
An excellent test had been provided. Bridget's departure had been freely discussed, and Carrissima had not shown the slightest embarrassment. She had bidden him "good-bye" at eleven o'clock, and Colonel Faversham had encouraged him to come again before many days. They were always pleased to see him! "But who in the world has been making an accusation?" asked Mark.
"Now, I'm off," he said. "That's all I was waiting for." "What?" asked Carrissima. "To hear you laugh again." "Jimmy," she said, "I sometimes wonder whether your inveterate cheerfulness is the sign of a shallow mind!" "Oh well, you see, it's one of the few useful things I can do," he answered. "To swing a light about." "Still, it isn't always safe to go full speed ahead," she suggested.
"Well, if you get one to match your cheeks," was the answer, "it will be a nice cheerful colour for them. It strikes me you're seeing a good deal of the fellow." "I always have done," said Carrissima, devoutly wishing he would arrive to release her. "Be candid now!" cried the colonel. "Be honest. I like honesty. Anyhow, you can't deceive me. Carrissima, I'll tell you one thing.
A good many of you young women are just a little bit too exacting!" "If I don't go I shall be late for dinner," exclaimed Carrissima hastily, and a few minutes later she was on the way to Aberdeen Mansion in a hired brougham.
"May I look?" he said, holding out his hand. After a momentary hesitation she let him take it, whereupon he had no scruple about opening the box. "Hullo! who is B. R.?" he demanded. "Nobody you know, Jimmy!" "Bridget Rosser!" he exclaimed. "You see what a memory I have. Is to-day any special occasion?" "Her birthday," said Carrissima. "How old is she?" "Twenty-three!" "What a delectable age!
They parted at her door, Mark refusing to enter the house, because he had a patient to visit one of the very few he had taken over from Dr. Harefield. Never had Carrissima spent a more enjoyable or a more thoroughly satisfactory afternoon!
It made me long to go on the river again." "Why why didn't you?" Carrissima faltered. "Come, come, what are you dreaming of?" said Colonel Faversham, with one of his boisterous laughs. "Picture my rowing in these clothes: a frock coat!" "Oh well," she returned, "I scarcely imagined you would row yourself." "Not row myself!" he exclaimed. "Why shouldn't I, in the name of goodness?
"We gave up the house because he couldn't rest long in any one place, and yet he could never write at his best moving about. You know, Carrissima, it was really a tragedy. He took such pains writing and re-writing, especially after he and I were left alone; but he knew he wasn't reaching his own standard. He never said a word, but of course I saw he was worrying himself to death.
On saying "Good-bye" Carrissima made a point of urging her to come to Grandison Square as often as she felt inclined, and from that time forth she regarded Miss Rosser with curiously mingled sensations.
"The whole mischief," he continued, facing his sister, "was brought about by the first visit you paid to Golfney Place." "Oh well," said Carrissima, "there will scarcely be a question of my patronizing her in the future. You see, Mrs. Clynesworth will be a quite important personage." "We have every reason to be thankful she isn't Mrs. Faversham," returned Lawrence.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking