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He had accordingly written from Boston to ask if it would be agreeable to them that he should go with them through the Rockies. The proposal was most natural. The Delaines and Gaddesdens had been friends for many years, and Arthur Delaine enjoyed a special fame as a travelling companion easy, accomplished and well-informed. Nevertheless, he waited at Boston in some anxiety for Elizabeth's answer.
Gaddesden had replied that certainly Elizabeth had told her the whole story, so far as it concerned Mr. Anderson. She pointed to the letters beside her. "But you cannot suppose," had been her further indignant remark, "that Elizabeth would ever dream of marrying him!" "That, my dear old friend, is for her mother to find out," Delaine had replied, not without a touch of venom.
During the preceding forty-eight hours there had been passages between herself and Delaine that she did not intend Anderson to know anything about.
Link her life in however remote a fashion with that life? Treachery and sacrilege, indeed! No need for Delaine to tell him that! His father as a grim memory of the past that Lady Merton knew. His own origins his own story as to that she had nothing to discover. But the man who might have dared to love her, up to that moment in the hut, was now a slave, bound to a corpse Finis!
It was to both women as if they felt by some subtle sense the brewing of a tempest. Charlotte unobtrusively moved her chair a little nearer her lover's; her purple delaine skirt swept his knee; both of them blushed and trembled with Cephas's black eyes upon them.
Her sympathies, her imagination were all trembling towards the Canadians, no less than towards their country. "Mr. Delaine, sir?" The gentleman so addressed turned to see the substantial form of Simpson at his elbow. They were both standing in the spacious hall of the C.P.R. Hotel adjoining the station at Winnipeg. "Her ladyship, sir, asked me to tell you she would be down directly.
Gervaise, in her turn, had made her preparations, had worked late into the night and laid aside thirty francs. She had set her heart on a silk mantelet marked thirteen francs, which she had seen in a shopwindow. She paid for it and bought for ten francs from the husband of a laundress who had died in Mme Fauconnier's house a delaine dress of a deep blue, which she made over entirely.
But prosperity did not spoil Melinda, and James Markham's chances were quite as good when, dressed in pink silk, with camelias in her hair, she entertained some half-dozen judges and M.C.'s as when in brown delaine and magenta ribbons she danced a quadrille at some "quilting bee out West."
"You gave them a great pleasure by going to talk to them." "I?" cried Elizabeth. "They are a perfect pair of gentlemen! and it is very kind of them to drive us!" Delaine laughed uneasily. "The gradations here are bewildering or rather the absence of gradations." "One gets down to the real thing," said Elizabeth, rather hotly. Delaine laughed again, with a touch of bitterness. "The real thing?
She thought she might as well have worn her calico wrapper as this beautiful white delaine, for all the notice they took of her dress. There was only one child present of Dotty's own age, Johnny Eastman, and if he would only have played cat's cradle with her, all might have gone well. But Johnny had not forgotten the severe correction his father had given him in the stable with a horsewhip.
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