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General M , as we came up on the piazza. "Nothing," said Dakie, quite composed and proper, "only she got tired and sat down; and it was dusty, that was all." He bowed and went off, without so much as a glance of secret understanding. "A joke has as many lives as a cat, here," he told Pen and me, afterwards, "and that was too good not to keep to ourselves."
By and by Dakie Thayne came; said a bright word or two; glanced round, in restless boy-fashion, as if taking in the elements of the situation, and considering what was to be made out of it; perceived the pair at chess; and presently, with his mountain stick, went springing away from point to point, up and around the piles and masses of rock and mound that made up the broadening ascent of the ledge.
"I'll be responsible for the name," answered Marmaduke Wharne. "'Dakie' is a nickname, of course; but they always call me so, and I like it best," the boy was explaining to Leslie, while they waited in the doorway. Then her turn came. Leslie had never looked through a telescope upon the stars before. She forgot the galop, and the piano tinkled out its gayest notes unheard.
Dakie had been about in the world somewhat; his two years at West Point were not all his experience; and he knew what queer little wheels were turned sometimes. He liked problems and experiments. They were what he excelled in at the Military School. This was his first furlough; and it was since his entrance at the Academy that his brother, Dr.
Dear little mother and girls, I have told stories and described describes, and all to crowd out and leave to the last corner such a thing that Dakie Thayne wants to do! We got to talking about Westover and last summer, and the pleasant old place, and all; and I couldn't help telling him something about the worry. I know I had no business to; and I am afraid I have made a snarl.
What a pity!" pursued this young man, who seemed bent upon driving his questions home. "O, it wasn't an invitation, you know. It wasn't company." "Wasn't it?" The inflection was almost imperceptible, and quite unintentional; Dakie Thayne was very polite; but his eyebrows went up a little just a line or two as he said it, the light beginning to come in upon him.
She would not have cared, if she had known, that Imogen Thoresby was looking for her within, to present, at his own request, the cavalry captain. She did not know in the least, absorbed in her pure enjoyment, that Marmaduke Wharne was deliberately trying her, and confirming his estimate of her, in these very things. She danced her galop with Dakie Thayne, after she went back.
But he's nice, ever so nice." "It's a case of Outledge, Leslie," Dakie Thayne said, going down the hill. "They treat those girls amphibiously!" "Well," returned Leslie, laughing, "I'm amphibious. I live in the town, and I can come out and not die on the Hill. I like it. I always thought that kind of animal had the nicest time." They met Alice Marchbanks with her cousin Maud, coming up.
Thoresby took possession; had praised the tableaux, as "quite creditable, really, considering the resources we had," and was following a slight lead into a long talk, of information and advice on her part, about Dixville Notch. The General thought he should go there, after a day or two at Outledge. Just here came up Dakie Thayne.
"This won't do," said Frank Scherman. "Speak to them, Brookhouse. Dakie Thayne, run over to Green's, and say, The ladies' compliments to General Ingleside and friends, and beg the honor of their presence at the concluding tableaux." Dakie was off with a glowing face, something like an odd, knowing smile twinkling out from the glow also, as he looked up at Scherman and took his orders.
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