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Updated: June 18, 2025
She doesn't know as much as I do; but Father thinks she is all right because she lets her hair turn gray and wears long dresses." Corinna's laugh was like music. "It takes more than that to make a virtuous mind!" she exclaimed, but she was not thinking of Miss Spencer.
I have missed seeing you this winter." The words were spoken sincerely, for Corinna's heart was open to all the world but Rose Stribling. "Thank you. How lovely your cedars are!" The wan light shone again in Alice Rokeby's face.
"Oh, if you will!" cried Patty breathlessly, and she added eagerly, "I have never had a real friend, you know, and you are so beautiful. You are more beautiful than anybody I ever saw on the stage." "Or in the movies?" Corinna's voice was mirthful, but there was a deep tenderness in her eyes.
"If he comes back again," she told herself recklessly, and she felt scorched when she thought that he might never come back, "I'll let him see that I can trifle as well as, or better, than he can. I'll let him see that two can play at that kind of game." A hundred times Corinna's warning returned to her.
The girls that Corinna knew might be unguarded about everything else on earth; but even the most artless one of them, even Margaret Blair, would have learned by instinct to guard the secret of her emotions. "Has he asked you to marry him?" Corinna's voice wavered over the question, which seemed to her cruel; but Patty met it with transparent simplicity.
The words were so far from Corinna's thoughts that they seemed to drift to her from some distant point in space, out of the world beyond the garden and the black brows of the cedars. They were as meaningless as the wind that brought them, or the whirring of the white moth at the window.
"I think it is worse. I think it is an infatuation." "What, Stephen? Not really?" Corinna's voice was mirthfully incredulous. "I have seen the girl once or twice," resumed Mrs. Culpeper, "and she seems to me objectionable from every point of view." "Only from the Culpeper one," protested Corinna. "I find her very attractive." "Well, I do not." Mrs.
I wonder, by the way, if they are going to have Mrs. Stribling?" "Rose Stribling?" A gleam of anger shone in Corinna's eyes. "Why should that interest you?" "Oh, they say at least Mrs. Berkeley says, and if there is any misinformation abroad she ought to be aware of it that Mrs. Stribling's latest attachment to her train is the Governor himself."
The girl appeared to have changed miraculously over-night, for her hard brightness had melted in the warmth of some glowing flame that burned at her heart. Never had she looked so Ariel-like and elusive; never had she brought so hauntingly to Corinna's memory the loveliness of youth and spring that is vivid and fleeting.
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