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"And do you think of heaven as a pleasant home and rest after what seems to me your very hard life?" "Certainly. How do you think of it?" "Well, to tell the truth, I have not thought much about it." Before Mrs. Dlimm could reply, there came anything but a heavenly interruption.
She was longing for another of their suggestive talks, when, without the restraint of the curious and unsympathetic, they could continue the theme that De Forrest had interrupted on Sunday afternoon. She was thinking how to bring this about, when the old plan of visiting Mrs. Dlimm occurred to her, and she adopted it at once.
"O, it's the 'drive' you are thinking of. That is better than I hoped. I thought we were visiting Mrs. Dlimm." "So we are, and I want to see her too," said Lottie, with a sudden blush. "Well, I'm glad you don't dread the long, intervening miles, with no better company than mine." "It's a good chance to learn patient endurance," she replied, with a look delightfully arch. "So please drive slower."
Lottie disarmed both suspicion and censure to a considerable extent by saying, "I had promised Mrs. Dlimm to come and see her again, and wished to keep my word. I knew no one would care to go there save Mr. Hemstead, so I took him to see the parson while I visited the parson's wife. I enjoyed my call very much, too; and as Mr. Hemstead and Mr.
But just then Hemstead entered, and she had enough natural, womanly interest not curiosity to note the unconscious welcome of Lottie's eyes, and the quick color come and go in her face, as if a fire were burning in her heart and throwing its flickering light upon her fair features. "Chance acquaintance, indeed!" she thought. "Why, here is this city-bred girl blushing as I once did about Mr. Dlimm.
"You and Mrs. Dlimm are alike in many respects, but I fear the world would not regard either of you as the best of counsellors." "Whenever I have taken counsel of the world, I have got into trouble, Miss Marsden." "There, that is just what she said again. Are you two in collusion." "Only as all truth agrees with itself," he answered, laughing.
He is your superior in every respect, save merely in the ease which comes from living in public instead of seclusion, and in all his diffidence there has been nothing so rude and ill-bred as Julian's treatment of Mrs. Dlimm. Julian indeed! He's but a well-dressed little manikin beside this large-minded man"; and she scowled more darkly than ever at the fire. "But what shall I do?
"I didn't come out of kindness," she replied, in a low tone for his ear alone. "Why then?" "Because I wanted to." "I like that reason better still." "And with good reason. Will you take me again over this awful road to see Mrs. Dlimm?" "With great pleasure." "But it's such a long drive! You will get cold driving." "O, no! not if you will talk to me so pleasantly." "I won't promise how I'll talk.
The last time I was in a picture gallery, I spent most o the time before one painting. I did not require weeks to learn its character." "I shall judge you by your action, Miss Marsden," said Mrs. Dlimm, gratefully. "My creed forbids me to think ill of any one, and my heart forbids me to think ill of you.
Dlimm carried Lottie off to her sanctum, the nursery, the fruitful source of questions and mysteries the learned doctors would find still more difficult to solve. "And you are contented with this narrow round of life?" asked Lottie, curiously, as Mrs. Dlimm finished the narration of what seemed to her very tame experience. "Narrow!" said Mrs.
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