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But he knew that THIS last was all a dream, and he tried to struggle to his feet to see Cissy's face again, a reality that he felt would take him out of this horrible trance, and he called to her across the pew and heard her sweet voice again in answer, and then a wave of unconsciousness once more submerged him.
Whether their complexions, still bearing traces of the alkali dust and inefficient nourishment of the plains, took a more yellow tone from the spectacle of Cissy's hat, I cannot say. Cissy thought they did; perhaps Piney was nearer the truth when she suggested that they were only "looking" to enable them to make a home-made copy of the hat next week.
Dorothy waited half-an-hour. At the end of that time a door opened in the wainscot, which she had not known was there, and a tall, pale, slender girl of eleven, looking older than she was, came forward. "Dorothy Denny!" said Cissy's unchanged voice, in tones of unmistakable delight. "Oh, they didn't tell me who it was! Are we to go with you? back to Colchester? Has something happened?
She knew that, sooner or later, down at Sutton, or up in London, she and Maurice were likely to meet. It would not be much trouble to her to place the small parcel in his hands. Surely, to deliver herself from this man to save Cissy's beloved china, and, perchance, her own throat for what might he not take a fancy to next! from the clutches of this madman, it would be easier to do what he wanted.
It would be Heaven afterwards, wouldn't it? I don't see that there's so much to be 'feared of in being burnt. If they didn't burn me, and did Will and Baby, and and Father" and Cissy's voice faltered, and she began to sob "that would be dreadful dreadful! O Bessy, won't you ask God not to give them leave? They couldn't, could they, unless He did?"
The bright eyes belonged to a little boy about Cissy's age, whose name was Jamie, and who had moved into the house that had interested her so much the day before. Now our little princess in her winning way claimed the allegiance of all that came within her circle, and so confidently ran over to the fence to make the acquaintance of her new subject.
"He'll do without Will and Baby not but he'll miss them, you know; but they don't do nothing for him like me." This was said in Cissy's most demure manner, and Rose was exceedingly amused. "And, prithee, what dost thou for him?" said she. "I do everything," said Cissy, with an astonished look. Only I can't do all the washing yet; Neighbour Ursula has to help me with that.
Not till after her actual marriage should the people at home know what had become of her. She was marrying with utter disregard of all her dearest ambitions all the same, she had rather be the wife of Cobb than of anyone else. Her stepfather might recover his old kindness and generosity as soon as he knew she no longer stood in Cissy's way, and that she had never seriously thought of marrying Mr.
Her mother had been watching the visiting going on through the fence, and saw Cissy's delight in her new companion, so, unknown to her, she wrote a note asking that Jamie be permitted to come into the yard and play under the elm tree. When Cissy saw Jamie coming up the walk in her own yard, her delight knew no bounds.
Poor Cissy's eyes leaped up in unaffected and sparkling affirmation before her tongue replied. To bask in this beloved sunshine for days together; to have this quaint Spanish life before her eyes, and those soft Spanish accents in her ears; to forget herself in wandering in the old-time Mission garden beyond; to have daily access to Mr.
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