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"My dear Elfie, the promises have many of them their double stamped with the very same signet and if that sealed counterpart is your own, it is the sure earnest and title to the whole value of the promise." "Well in this case?" said Fleda, eagerly.
They were scattered here and there on the lawn; and further back stood on the heights, and stretched along the ridges of the undulating ground, the outposts of a wood of the same growth still beyond them. "How do you like it, Elfie?" Mr. Carleton asked her, the evening of the first day, as he saw her for a length of time looking out gravely and intently from before the hall door.
I wouldn't exchange places with them for all the world. 'A gentleman in the drawing-room has called to see you, miss. It was the footman brought the message. Elfie started, flushed, and then went into the house to meet her fate. There was only one person it could be, and her instinct told her that life would be different after this interview to what it was at present.
If it had been a princess's he could not with more respect. "You have my promise, Elfie," he said. "I need not repeat it?" She raised her eyes and gave him a look so grateful, so loving, so happy, that it dwelt for ever in his remembrance. A moment after it had faded, and she stood still where he had left her, listening to his footsteps as they went down the stairs.
"I told her," said Babie, "that was the way she talked about Cecil, and you should have seen her face." She wonders that Allen has not more spirit, and indeed, mother, I do rather wish Elfie could have come back with nothing but her little bag, so that he could have shown it would have been all the same."
It needed a great deal of coaxing and persuasion to bring her sisters round to her way of thinking; but Elfie was allowed at last to send off her letter accepting her cousin's offer, and none of them ever knew how much it cost her to do it.
"You are right, Elfie," he said. "I do not see how those who honour the authority of the Bible, and the character of Jesus Christ, can deny the truth of His own declaration. If that is false, so must those be." Fleda took the Bible, and hurriedly sought out another passage. "Grandpa showed me these places," she said, "once when we were talking about Mr. Didenhover he didn't believe that.
"I was sorry, because, it wasn't right," said Fleda, with a grave truthfulness which yet lacked none of her universal gentleness and modesty. "What wasn't right?" "To speak I am afraid you won't like me to say it, Mr. Carleton." "I will, Elfie, for I ask you." "To speak to Mrs. Carleton so, and besides, you know what you said, Mr. Carleton "
Carleton, will you be displeased if I say something?" "Don't you know me better than to ask me that, Elfie?" he said, gently. "I want to ask you something if you wont mind my saying it?" "What is it?" said he, reading in her face that a request was behind. "I will do it." Her eyes sparkled, but she seemed to have some difficulty in going on. "I will do it whatever it is," he said, watching her.
"I wish you wouldn't ask me, Sir," said poor Fleda, who still could not turn her face to meet his eye "It was only something that happened yesterday." "What was it, Elfie? You need not be afraid to tell me." "It was only what you said to Mrs. Carleton yesterday when she was talking " "About my difficulty with those gentlemen!"
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