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"To think of that Cathie Harrison making such a breeze," cried Alexia angrily; "a girl who's just come among us, as it were, and we only let her in our set because Miss Salisbury asked us to make things pleasant for her. If it had been any one else who raised such a fuss!" Meantime Dr.
"A day will suffice, I suppose?" her paternal parent was wandering on amiably. "A man should always investigate such matters for himself. I can see enough to satisfy me between now and the time for the return train." "I cannot," whispered Langley to Cathie: "a century would not suffice. If the sun would but stand still!"
Seth no longer sat in the chair near his pillow, but stood a little apart; and surely he would have been no lover if the feeble blood had not leaped in his veins at the sight of the face bending over him the innocent, fair young face which had so haunted his pained and troubled dreams. "Cathie!" he cried out aloud.
It would have mattered little how much they tried to dissuade him, for before long his passionate longing for the journey became so overmastering that nothing short of restraint in prison or a madhouse could have stayed his going; but we were not easy about him. "He had better go," said Mr. Cathie to me, when I was at home for the Easter vacation, "and get it over.
Almost the last coherent string of sentences I got from him was as follows: "About George's money if I send him 2000 pounds you will still have nearly 150,000 pounds left, and Mr. Cathie will not let you try to make it more. I know you would give him four or five thousand, but the Mayor and I talked it over, and settled that 2000 pounds in gold would make him a rich man.
'There should be a law against interfering with people's breakfast hour, said Rose; 'though, to, be sure, a guest may as well get himself gone early and be done with it. How you and Robert raced, Cathie! We did our best to catch you up, but the pace was too good. Was there a wild taunt, a spice of malice in the girl's reckless voice?
'Now we shall have a little rest, I hope, chimed in Cathie. 'I shall send her home to her parents this very night, declared Aunt Margarine; 'she shall not stay here to pervert our happy household with her miserable gewgaws! Here Priscilla found her tongue.
Cathie and myself, for the interval between November 26 and December 27 seemed too short to admit of his having paid his visit to Erewhon and returned; as, moreover, he had added the words, "Coming home," we rather hoped that he had abandoned his intention of going there.
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