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Updated: June 16, 2025
Now this nice wool delaine was once growing on a sheep's back. Do you suppose that sheep was vain because it was covered with wool? No, it never thought anything about it. And so you see that you ought n't to be proud of it either."
They were dressed at last, and very beautifully Eugenia looked in the pink satin and flowing lace, which harmonized so well with her complexion, and which had been bought with the united proceeds of a velvet bonnet, a delaine dress, a broche shawl, and Dora's hair!
He admired the effects of light and shadow on the wide expanse; and noticed the peculiarities of the alkaline lakes. Meanwhile, as he became more expansive, Elizabeth contracted. One would have thought soon that Canada had ceased to interest her at all. She led him slyly on to other topics, and presently the real Arthur Delaine emerged.
Her earnings from this source were considerable; and, severely stinting herself in the very necessaries of life by a strained ingenuity of economy, to which the skimped delaine turned and altered to the utter exhaustion of the cleverest dressmaker's invention, and magically rejuvenated, as though again and again dipped in the fountain of perpetual youth bore conclusive testimony, she bravely reinforced her fund from time to time.
The smart of it was still tingling through Anderson's being. He had till now felt a kind of instinctive contempt for Delaine as a fine gentleman with a useless education, inclined to patronise "colonists."
She was thinking of Mary's little crippled Nellie for whom the brown delaine doll was designed; and she was remembering what that same Nellie had said one day, when they had paused before a window wherein stood another just such a little satin-clad lady as this interloper from the middle bureau drawer. "Oh, Cousin Polly, look look!" Nellie had breathed. "Is n't she be-yu-tiful?
Delaine caught her up, rather helplessly. "Ah! isn't that the point? What will come of it? Numbers and size aren't everything. Where is it all tending?" She looked up at him, still exalted, still flushed, and said softly, as though she could not help it, "'On to the bound of the waste on to the City of God!" He gazed at her in discomfort. Here was an Elizabeth Merton he had yet to know.
You know it is for Papa's sake" she explained eagerly "because Canada thinks she owes him something." Delaine suggested that perhaps life in Winnipeg was monotonous, and its inhabitants might be glad of distractions. He also begged with a slight touch of acerbity that now that he had joined them he too might be made use of. "Ah! but you don't know the country," said Lady Merton gently.
Craggy mountains drop almost to the river's edge on one side; on the other, pine woods mask the railway and the hills; while in the distance shine the snow-peaks of the Rockies. It is the gateway of the mountains, fair and widely spaced, as becomes their dignity. Delaine, however, was not observing the scenery. He was entirely absorbed by reflection on his own affairs.
Can you carve, and do you like green turtle soup?" Maddy was bewildered, but managed to reply that she could not carve, that she never saw any green turtle soup, and that she supposed she should wear to dinner the delaine she had on. "Why, we always change, even Mrs. Noah," Jessie exclaimed, bending over the open trunk and examining its contents.
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