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Madame de Connal, surrounded by adorers, and shining in the salon, was not so dangerous as Dora, half fainting in the boudoir; nor had any words that wit or sentiment could devise power to please or touch him so much as the "Harry Ormond!" which had burst naturally from Dora's lips. Now he began almost to doubt whether nature or art prevailed.
How could she live, away from all this dear family with whom she had learned to feel so entirely at home? She thought that when the day of separation came her heart would surely break. When the good news of Dora's longer stay among them spread through the family, there was general rejoicing, and the little girl was in danger of being fairly hugged to death by her friends.
It was indeed poor luck. When the doctor had gone Alice said to me 'It IS hard lines, but Dora's very jolly about it.
As he came he read a book. Instantly the expression of Dora's face changed. She rose and went towards him, smiling contemptuously towards his lowering gravity. He looked up, gave a little grunt of recognition, and closed his book. "Father," she said, "I've just heard a piece of news." "Bad, I suppose." She laughed. "Well," she answered, "I suppose we shall survive it.
Lionel was too true a gentleman to ask why she lived there; he praised the painting, and then turned the subject. As Lady Earle foresaw, the time had arrived when Dora's children partly understood there was a division in the family, a breach never to be healed.
We got into a way of going on day after day with Dora's little meals, the backgammon, and the Mayne Reid, till sometimes it felt as if it had always been thus with us from all time, and always would be; and at others it would seem as if it were a dream, and that if I could but wake, I should be making tea for Harold in our cheerful little drawing-room at Mount Eaton.
My pretty little Dora's face would fall, and she would make her mouth into a bud again, as if she would very much prefer to shut mine with a kiss. 'Would you know how to buy it, my darling? I would repeat, perhaps, if I were very inflexible. Dora would think a little, and then reply, perhaps, with great triumph: 'Why, the butcher would know how to sell it, and what need I know?
Even aunt Dora's foolish affection might have been a little comfort at the moment, and he could not but be a little curious to know whether they had heard Elsworthy's story, and what the patronesses of Skelmersdale thought of the matter. Somehow, just then, in the midst of his distresses, a vision of Skelmersdale burst upon the Perpetual Curate like a glimpse of a better world.
Hastening to her chamber, and crouching near the window, Eugenia tore open Dora's letter, and clutching eagerly at the draft, almost screamed with delight when she saw the amount. FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! She could scarcely believe her senses: and drawing still nearer the window, for the daylight was fading fast, she sought for the reason of this unexpected generosity.
"We'll be very pleased to give you a cup of tea at Dora's lodging at least we can do that for you, and it may be acceptable on such an oppressive afternoon." He, a guest at a lodging of Dora Millar's: it sounded odd enough! "Do come, Mr.
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