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For the first time it entered into Celia's mind that there might be something more between Mr. Casaubon and her sister than his delight in bookish talk and her delight in listening. Hitherto she had classed the admiration for this "ugly" and learned acquaintance with the admiration for Monsieur Liret at Lausanne, also ugly and learned.
Each wore a fresh oak leaf, and nothing would do but Rosalind must run back to get one for Miss Celia; and there must have been magic in it, so suddenly did Celia's courage revive. "I feel better," she said, stopping to turn the leaves of the cook-book. "Let me see, 'boil several hours till the juice is well out of the fruit, Sally always lets it drip over night into the big stone jar.
"You are needed here." He glanced upwards towards his brother's room. "And I need you too, Derrick my son that was lost and is found." He paused, then he added, "Tell her that it shall rest with her." Derrick gave the hand a pressure of comprehension. As the carriage was starting, Celia's eyes wandered over the group gathered to see them off: Mrs.
Bab did not tell any one how she felt, but endeavored to be amiable, while waiting for her chance to come; and, when it did arrive, made the most of it, though there was nothing heroic to add a charm. Miss Celia's arm had been doing very well, but would, of course, be useless for some time longer.
There could be no better choice than this, they all agreed; and Jack gathered a handful, that they might put on their badges at once. "On our way home we must stop and tell the magician about it," Rosalind said, as she pinned a leaf on Celia's dress. "Take upon command what we have, That to your wanting may be ministered." "Celia Fair, do you realize what you have done?"
"I should never keep them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?" The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and expressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that it had better not have been born. But she felt it necessary to explain. "You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine.
"Andy Churchill, you weren't so discerning as all that, when not even I thought it was serious with either of them! Celia's had so many admirers, and turned them all aside so coolly and Mr. Frederic Forester is such an accomplished person at paying attentions how could I think it meant anything? But Lanse insists Celia is different from what she ever was before, and I don't know but he's right."
That I should be there in time, I was permitted to depart that evening. I took my leave of the superior, and the rest of the monks, intending never to return, and hastened to my lodgings, where I threw off my monastic habit, which from that hour has never been resumed. I repaired to Donna Celia's house, was admitted and ushered into a room to await her arrival.
Bobby joined them; but somehow even then he felt out of it. Celia's cheeks were flushed bright with the exercise and pleasure. Her spirits were high. She laughed and chatted with Gerald vivaciously. Poor Bobby she included in the brightness of her mood, but evidently only because he happened to be in the circle of it.
Thorny will be too tired to drive, but I must hear from the post-office, rain or shine;" and Miss Celia's pretty color brightened as she spoke, either from some happy thought or because she was bashful, for the honest young faces before her plainly showed their admiration of the white-gowned lady under the honeysuckles.
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