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Updated: June 17, 2025
Because she was only Aileen Armagh, and at service with his relation, did he think her less the true woman? Suspicion was foreign to her open nature; doubt, distrust had no place in her young life; but like a serpent in the girl's Eden the words of the mistress of Champ-au-Haut, "He never will ask you to be his wife," dropped poison in her ears.
Champney had come to depend more and more on the girl's strong youth; to demand more and more from her abundant vitality and lively spirits; and Aileen, although recognizing the anomalous position she held in the Champ-au-Haut household neither servant nor child, neither companion nor friend gave of herself; gave as her Irish inheritance prompted her to give: ungrudgingly, faithfully, without reward save the knowledge of a duty performed towards the woman who, in taking her into her household and maintaining her there, had placed her in a position to make friends such friends!
On nearing The Bow the confusion ceased; the polyglot sounds were distinguishable only as a murmur. In passing Champ-au-Haut, he looked up at the house; here and there a light shone behind drawn shades. Six years had passed since he was last there; six years and time had not dulled the sensation of that white pepper in his nostrils! He smiled to himself.
Sometimes, it is true, it occurred to him that his room was better than his company; this was especially noticeable in his young days when he was much with his aunt's husband whom he called "Uncle Louis." Since his death he had never ceased to visit her at Champ-au-Haut too much was at stake, for he was the rightful heir to her property at least, if not Louis Champney's.
Mrs. Champney took note that he never asked for Aileen. If the girl were there when he ran in for afternoon tea on the terrace or an hour's chat in the evening, sometimes it happened that the day saw him three times at Champ-au-Haut her presence to all appearance afforded him only an opportunity to tease her goodnaturedly; he delighted in her repartee. Mrs.
He wanted to renew acquaintance with all the people at Champ-au-Haut and the old habitués of The Greenbush. He walked down to Champ-au-Haut the next afternoon. Here and there on the mountain side and along the highroad he noticed the massed pink and white clusters of the sheep laurel.
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