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So soon as the dust and ashes of railway travel were removed, the pale captain, in changed attire, snowy cambric, and with perfumed hair and handkerchief, presented himself before Dorcas. 'Now, Dorkie, darling, your poor soldier has come back, resolved to turn over a new leaf, and never more to reserve another semblance of a secret from you, said he, so soon as his first greeting was over.
Only suddenly he looked up, and said quietly, 'Very well. Good-bye for a little, Dorkie, and he leaned over her and kissed her cheek, and then passed into the hall, where he took his hat and cane. Larcom presented him with a note, in a sealed envelope. As he took it from the salver he recognised Larkin's very clear and large hand. I suspect that grave Mr.
You mustn't be angry; and if you'll be a good girl, and trust me in matters of business 'Stanley, I tell you plainly once more, I never will consent to sell one acre of the Brandon estates. 'Then we'll see what I can do without you, Dorkie, he said in a pleasant, musing way.
'But you are perfectly right, Dorkie, in supposing that I am under very considerable apprehension from their machinations. Though they cannot slur our fair fame, it is quite possible they may very seriously affect our property. Mr. Larkin is in possession of all the family papers. I don't like it, but it is too late now.
It often struck me as a great mistake, that, where there is a good income, and a position to be maintained, there is not a little put by every year to meet cases like this what they call a reserve fund in trading companies. 'I do not think there is much money. You know, Stanley. 'Whatever there is, is under settlement, and we cannot apply it, Dorkie.
Dorcas smiled, and only plucked a little flowery tendril from a plant that hung in a natural festoon above her. 'I assure you, darling, I am serious; you must not look so incredulous; and it is the more provoking, because I love you so. I think I have a right to your advice, Dorkie. 'Why don't you ask Rachel, she's cleverer than I, and you are more in the habit of consulting her?
'I will keep it, Dorkie. It was kind of you, and their eyes met regretfully. 'And and, I think, I do trust you, Radie, said the heiress of Brandon; 'and I hope you will try to like me on till till spring comes, you know. And, I wish, she sighed softly, 'I wish we were as we used to be. I am not very happy; and here's the carriage.
The deepening shadow warned Dorcas that it was time to repair to the Dutch room, where she found lights and tea prepared. In a few minutes more the library door opened and Stanley Lake peeped in. 'Radie not come yet? said he entering. 'We certainly are much pleasanter in this room, Dorkie, more, in proportion, than we two should have been in the drawing-room.
As a halo surrounds a saint, a shadow rose suddenly, and enveloped pale, scented, smiling Stanley, with the yellow eyes. He stood in the centre of a dreadful medium, through which she saw him, ambiguous and awful; and she sickened. 'Are you ill, Dorkie, darling? said the apparition in accents of tenderness. 'Yes, you are ill.
'How delicious these violets are! said Stanley, leaning for a moment over the fragrant purple dome that crowned a china stand on the marble table they were passing. 'You love flowers, Dorkie. Every perfect woman is, I think, a sister of Flora's. You are looking pale you have not been ill? No! I'm very glad you say so. Sit down for a moment and listen, darling.
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