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During the singing that followed Cicely's recitation the two officers quietly withdrew, their duties calling them away at this hour. At the close of the exercises, a committee on prizes met in the vestibule, and unanimously decided that Cicely Green was entitled to the first prize.
"May be," answered Cicely in her quiet fashion, "perhaps because they did not trust enough or rightly. At least there lies my path and I will walk in it to the fire if need be." "There is some seed of greatness in you; to what will it grow, I wonder?" replied Emlyn, with a shrug of her shoulders. On the morrow this faith of Cicely's was put to a sharp test.
"There's no doubt about it. The unfortunate part is that now they find they've been discovered, they'll bury the treasure somewhere else instead." "What a pity we fell just at that moment!" Cicely's voice was very doleful. "It will have aroused their suspicions, too, and will make them extra careful," lamented Lindsay. "If Scott recognized us, he and Mrs. Wilson will know we're watching them.
If she had not hurried madame so, there would have been no night-work for this poor child, no fagged-out nerves for her the next day. Suddenly Miss Balfour crossed the room and, to her cousin's astonishment, caught Cicely's cold hands in hers. "Look up here, you poor little thing," she said, kindly. "Now don't cry another tear, or grieve another bit about this. It's no matter at all.
Ordinarily Toinette's reply would have been as sharp as Cicely's, but this time she just looked at her with her big eyes eyes suspiciously bright, as though tears lay not far back of them and walked away, leaving Cicely to wonder what had come over her. "Well, I never!" was her rather vague comment. "I don't see what has come over Toinette since that last flareup.
He did not mean it, but the words struck like lead on Cicely's heart, for they did not amount to an acquittal before the tribunal of his secret conviction, any more than did Walsingham's disavowal, for who could tell what Mr. Secretary's conscience did think unbecoming to his office?
Cicely's hand caught hers and gave it an affectionate little pressure, as they bowed their heads together under the solemnly pronounced blessing.
Talbot knows how a poor prisoner must love the pretty playfellows that are lent to her for a time." Sir Ralf's presence hindered any more intimate conversation, and Richard had certainly committed a solecism in giving Cicely's letter the precedence over the Earl's.
First it is that she has had no chances of learning. What has she ever shown that she wants to learn? Then it is that she does not go away, and does not see new faces. Is that a thing of such importance that the want of it should lead to what has happened? Then it is that she is not allowed to hunt! I will not add to Cicely's trouble now by rebuking these desires.
"I had set my heart on going to the party, and in that dress." Cicely's sobs shook her harder than ever as the words reached her, and her tears started afresh. Miss Shelby's voice broke in: "I am surprised that you would keep such a careless assistant, madame. Of course, you will expect to make the loss good to my cousin. It will ruin your trade to keep incompetent employees.
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