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There was to Odo something perplexingly familiar in this accent and in the light darting movements of her little head framed in a Columbine's ruff, with a red rose thrust behind one ear; but after a rapid glance about the house she appeared to take no notice of him and he began to think it must be to some one else he owed his invitation.
"When I grow up, I will make songs, too," she said, as she stooped to pick the meadow-sweet. "I will make the words, and Rosin shall make the music; and we will go through the village singing, till everybody comes out of the houses to listen: Meadow-sweet is a treat; Columbine's a fairy; Mallow's fine, sweet as wine, What rhymes with fairy, I wonder. Dairy; but that won't come right.
"Why certainly!" answered Columbine, with a slow break in her speech. "You didn't go to meet Wilson Moore?" "No." "An' I reckon you'll say you hadn't heerd he was there?" "I had not," flashed Columbine. "Wal, did you see him?" "Yes, sir, I did, but quite by accident." "Ahuh! Columbine, are you lyin' to me?" The hot blood flooded to Columbine's cheeks, as if she had been struck a blow.
Jack had been sent away three years ago, just before Columbine's return from school. Therefore she had not seen him for over seven years. But she remembered him well a big, rangy boy, handsome and wild, who had made her childhood almost unendurable. "Yes my son Jack he's comin' home," said Belllounds, with a break in his voice. "An', Collie now I must tell you somethin'."
Plainly she was not looking at Rufus, not apparently thinking of him. But very suddenly without changing her attitude, she flashed him a swift glance. He was looking straight at her, and in his blue eyes was an intense, deep glow as of flaming spirit. Columbine's look shot away from him with the rapidity of a swallow on the wing. The colour deepened in her cheeks.
Columbine's heart was full of a happiness that she longed to express somehow, there beside this lonely grave. It was what she owed the strange man who slept here in the shadows. Grief abided with her, and always there would be an eternal remorse and regret. Yet she had loved him. She had been his, all unconsciously. His life had been terrible, but it had been great.
Nevertheless, all that was fine and worthy in Columbine and Moore was to go unrewarded, unfulfilled, because of the selfish pride of an old man and the evil passion of the son. It was a conflict as old as life. Of what avail were Columbine's high sense of duty, Moore's fine manhood, the many victories they had won over the headlong and imperious desires of love?
"Then I took up my newspaper to aid my digestion. Every Sunday I read the Gil Blas in the shade by the side of the water. It is Columbine's day, you know; Columbine, who writes the articles in the Gil Blas. I generally put Madame Renard into a rage by pretending to know this Columbine. It is not true, for I do not know her and have never seen her, but that does not matter.
A great hot wave of crimson suddenly suffused Columbine's face a pitiless, burning blush that spread tingling over her whole body. She lay very still while it lasted, and Mrs. Peck set down the cup and, rising energetically, began to tidy the room. At length, faintly, the girl spoke again: "Aunt Liza!" Mrs. Peck turned.
"Now, folks," he said, "I reckon two's company an' three's a crowd. I'll go off a little ways an' keep watch." "Ben, you stay here," replied Columbine, hurriedly. "Why, Collie? Are you afraid or ashamed to be with me alone?" asked Moore, bitterly. Columbine's eyes flashed. It was seldom they lost their sweet tranquillity. But now they had depth and fire.
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