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He wanted the dog, Congo, because he thought it was a good dog, and also because Dora Bannister had given it to him, and he was impatient to carry out the plan which Dora had proposed to get the animal to Cobhurst.
The doctor shook hands with them most cordially. "Glad to see you both so ruddy; Cobhurst air must agree with you. And now, before we say anything else, let me ask you a question: Have you had your supper?" "No," answered Ralph, "and I hope you have not." "Your hopes are realized. I have not, and if you do not mind letting me sup with you, I will do it."
No one said a word against any of the changes that Ralph had made, for in spite of them Cobhurst was still Cobhurst. On a bench under a tree by the side of the house sat La Fleur, shelling some early spring peas, a tin basin of which she held in her lap. Mrs.
Now there are those young Cobhurst people, who, you know, have supper at the end of the day, instead of dinner, like the regular farmers that they are, and as you want to see them, anyway, and find out how they are getting on, it will be well to stop there, and ten to one, you will find that they have not yet sat down to the table."
The good cook had been in a state of enthusiastic delight, since, looking out of the kitchen window where she had been sitting, with a manuscript book of recipes in her lap, planning the luncheon and dinner, she had seen the lord of Cobhurst drive up to the gate with dear Miss Cicely. It was a joy like that of listening to a party of dinner guests, who were eating her favorite ice.
She had said all she could say, and now she hoped that La Fleur would treat the proposition with contempt. But the great cook did nothing of the kind. In five minutes, Mrs. Tolbridge returned with the information that La Fleur would be overjoyed to go to Cobhurst for a fortnight.
He did not know her family, nor did he allow himself to consider the point that said family was accustomed to an expensive style of living and accommodation, entirely unlike anything to be found on a ramshackle farm. He only thought how delightful it would be if it were Dora who wanted to come to Cobhurst.
"You see, ma'am, I hadn't no shoes as was fit for that long walk out in the country, an' I had to take my best ones to the shoemaker; and though I did my best to make him hurry, it took him a whole day, an' so I had to put off going to Cobhurst, an' I've never got over my walk out thar yit. My j'ints has creaked ever sense." "If you used them more, they would creak less," snapped Miss Panney.
This is a purely social call, and I shall not even ask you how you are." "I beg you will not," said the old lady, "and that will give me a good reason for sending for you when you ought to be informed on that point." "This is not my first social call this evening," said he. "I took supper at Cobhurst, where Dora Bannister waited on the table."
But Dora was the dearest of good friends, Miriam was very sure of that. The Bannister carriage had scarcely left the Cobhurst gates when the dog, Congo, came bounding after it.
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