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"She is small," answered Miriam, "but isn't she pretty and graceful? And her clothes fit her so beautifully. I am sure you will like her." Ralph came down from the tree, the straw hat was replaced on the head of Miss Drane, and then came introduction and greeting. Never before had Dora Bannister found it so hard to meet any one as she found it to meet these two.
"No, I didn't," said the other; "I knew it was of no use. It was plain to see that she would not do at all." "Did you get her address?" "Yes," said Dora; "she gave me a card as we were going out, and insisted on my taking it. It is in my bag at home." Miss Panney was silent for a moment, and was evidently endeavoring to cool her feelings so as to speak without indignation.
SIMLA subjects, she went on, with excitement. I turned up the catalogue. 'Ninety-seven, "Kasumti Bazaar"; ninety-eight, "Clouds on the Chor"; ninety-nine, "The House of a Friend" Lord, what apricot blossoms! Yes, they're all Simla. 'For goodness' sake, said Dora, 'who painted them? You've got the catalogue! "I. Armour," I read.
"Speaking lightly of me!" she repeats. "Young men are often careless in their language," explains Dora hurriedly, feeling that she has gone too far. "He meant nothing unkind, you may be sure!" "I am quite sure" firmly. "Then no harm is done" smiling brightly. "And now, good-night, dearest; go to bed instead of sitting there looking like a ghost in those mystical moonbeams."
'Though certainly I don't know why you should, said Dora, or why you should call it a happiness at all. But of course you don't mean what you say. And I am sure no one doubts your being at liberty to do whatever you like. Jip, you naughty boy, come here! I don't know how I did it. I did it in a moment. I intercepted Jip. I had Dora in my arms. I was full of eloquence. I never stopped for a word.
We rode the two miles, as I do not think Dora and I would ever have floundered through the mud and torrents that ran down the lanes. It was just as if the farm had been built in the lower circle, and the cottages in Malebolge itself, where the poor little Alfy, so pure when it started from Kalydon Moor, brought down to them all the leakage of that farmyard.
I must have been born with a natural antipathy to water." Many days passed before they were familiar with Earlescourt. Every day brought its new wonders. A pretty suite of rooms had been prepared for each sister; they were in the western wing, and communicated with each other. The Italian nurse who had come with them from Florence had preferred remaining with Dora.
My little wife came and sat upon my knee, to coax me to be quiet, and drew a line with her pencil down the middle of my nose; but I couldn't dine off that, though it was very agreeable. 'Don't you think, my dear, said I, 'it would be better for you to remonstrate with Mary Anne? 'Oh no, please! I couldn't, Doady! said Dora. 'Why not, my love? I gently asked.
After telling her of his visit to his sister, and of her wishes with regard to Dora, he said, "since the death of my wife and baby, I have felt a deep interest in your family for the kindness shown to me in my affliction. I promised Ella that I would befriend Dora, and by placing her with Louise, I shall not only fulfil my word, but shall also be relieved of all care concerning her.
And she still intended to have the furs, the pearls, and the silver forks, just the same as though the money had been a special gift to her! "Suppose Uncle Nat should happen to come home, and Dora should tell him?" suggested Alice, who did not so readily fall in with her sister's views. "He'll never do that in the world," returned Eugenia.
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