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"I want you to bear with me," he said gently, "just for a few minutes. Dinah, what if you are making a mistake? Mistakes happen, you know. Scott is a shy sort of chap, and immensely reserved. Doesn't it occur to you that he may care for you and yet be afraid just as you are afraid to let you know?" "No," Dinah said. "He doesn't. I know he doesn't!"
"Almost like a dream," Nan said, and I think she was quite right. "Where's my basket?" Flossie asked, after they had ridden on for about an hour. "Do you want to see if Snap is in it this time?" her father jokingly inquired. "Snap's too big to get in my basket," Flossie answered. "He's a big dog. But I want to get some of the cookies Dinah gave me. I'm hungry."
Sabina tripped off with a satisfied air, and five ten fifteen minutes elapsed and no Ellen. I took out my memorandum and quickly wrote down a few valuable plans on the coming campaign. The clock struck half past eight, and my sister opened the entry door and listened the kitchen door soon shut and somebody came up stairs slowly, with a waiter full of something. 'Is that you, Dinah? 'Yes marm.
Fiercely indignant, she entered the kitchen, and caught Dinah peeping at herself in the shining surface of the warming-pan after having removed her hat. "Ah, that's your game, my girl, is it?" she said. "You've come back the grand lady, have you? You've no further, use for your mother, I daresay. She may work her fingers to the bone for all you care or ever will care again."
My pr Whoever told you, ma'am, as ever I had any, or behaved so?" "You had better ask your friend here." "Hey?" "Perhaps," said Mrs Bosenna sarcastically, "that goes back beyond your memory! Your parrot, if I may say so, has a better one." "Missus!" expostulated Dinah modestly, while "Oh good Lord!" muttered Cai with a start. His friend's eye was on him, too, fixed and suspicious. "The parrot?"
"I thought it was a big black burglar," Flossie said, her voice still shaking from the fright. "I thought it was a policeman," faltered Sandy. "'Cause they always bang things like that." "And I thought, sure's yo' life, it was a real ghost," laughed Dinah. "'Cause de clock jest struck fer de ghost hour. Ha! ha! dat was suah a musicanious rat."
Cai descended to his garden, and at the foot of it found a trio of dark figures by the low fence of the edge of the cliff 'Bias and Mrs Bosenna in talk together, Dinah standing a little apart. "But that," thought he, "is only her place, as I've just been hearing." He had a just mind and was slow to suspect. Even now he could not assimilate the poison of Mr Philp's story.
"Don't you realize," she said fondly, "that you have been my salvation." "Not not really?" faltered Dinah. "Yes, really." There was a throb of passion in Isabel's voice. "I have been a prisoner for years, but you you, little Dinah, have set me free. I am travelling forward again now like the rest of the world." She paused a moment, and her arms clasped Dinah more closely still.
And so Dinah Moore became an inmate of the Orangery; and though the girls had laughed at their brother, they were very kind to her when she arrived with Dan, and made much of her and of her baby. The same night Dan went over to the Cedars, and managed to have an interview with Tony, and to tell him that his wife had been bought by Vincent. The joy of the negro was extreme.
I am going to meet my husband in the dawning. But you you will go back." She fastened the coat with a quiet dexterity that made Dinah think again of Scott, and sat down again in her corner as if unconscious of the cold. "Come and lie in my arms, little one!" she said. "Perhaps you will be able to sleep." Dinah crept close. "It will kill you it will kill you!" she sobbed. "Oh, why did I let you?"
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