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But even Lady Helena was startled when she read Dora's reply. It was a wild prayer that her child should be saved spared the deadly perils of love and marriage left to enjoy her innocent youth. "There is no happy love," wrote poor Dora, "and never can be. Men can not be patient, gentle, and true. It is ever self they worship self-reflected in the woman they love.
As for Sadie, who lived in the same house now, and who visited Dora's apartment at all hours, she was too silly and too deeply infatuated with her friend to suspect her of anything wrong I idolized Dora. It seemed to me that I adored her soul even more than I did her body.
He was very kind and patient to his ailing, delicate wife, giving up parties and soirees to sit with her, but never able to guess why Dora's dark eyes looked so strangely upon him. Lady Charteris had planned an excursion to some picturesque ruin that had pleased her daughter, who wished to make a sketch of it.
'Look here, Whelpdale, said Jasper, 'I can't have this; Dora's conceit, please to remember, is, to begin with, only a little less than my own, and you will make her unendurable. Her tale is well enough in its way, but then its way is a very humble one. 'I deny it! cried the other, excitedly.
'Well, don't go and have the wrong dinner again at Aunt Dora's. I must tell her to give you nothing but rice pudding. 'Zen I shan't go zere any more, said the child with determination. 'What, you love plums more than Aunt Dora? 'No o, said Sandy dubiously, 'but plums is good!
Presently the servant came up with the breakfast, and looking through the open door into the bed-room where Dora sat by her father's bed-side, she called out in terror, "Oh God, he is dead! I will call your aunt, child," and hurried away. Dora's heart seemed cut in two by these words. She put her head upon the pillow and sobbed and wept.
In the ensuing week Jack Ives was our constant companion; the continued illness of his servant's mother left him stranded, and Dora's kind heart at once offered him the hospitality of her roof. For my part I was glad, for the little drama which now began was not without its interest.
And now " "Don't you say no more, Andy. Dora's a child, and she wanted you. Don't ye give her up. If you give her up, and she, poor child, on the other sides of the water, I'll never respict ye d'ye hear that, now, Andy? Only the last letter she wrote she said she'd break her heart if I let you fall in love with anybody else.
I haven't seen them since. Dora's never seen them. We were married six months after I came home, on nothing. I wouldn't have risked it, but she insisted for my sake. I was at the old game, you know." Jimmy nodded.
The General foresaw an infinity of quiet naps and Deane uninterrupted smoking; Charlie alone chafed against the necessary interruption of his bold campaign, but, in face of Dora's calm coldness of aspect, he did not dare to lift up his voice.
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