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Elliott would never have built these two pretty bow windows; and only see what lovely flowers are placed in them! It looks like a perfect paradise." "It really does," answered John, with a sigh, thinking at the moment of poor Helen's wishes, on that memorable walk, which he first took with his dear master.
So far we had no trouble with Indians, and the command stopped to let the horses rest a few days. While lying there Col. Elliott requested me to take four other scouts and go north four days to prospect for water and grass, for this was now a strange country to all of us.
He discussed certain changes he wished to make in the old Elliott mansion to fit it for a young and beautiful mistress. He did most of the planning. Marian was content to listen in happy silence. Afterwards she had proposed this walk to the Cove. "What particular object of charity have you found at the Cove now?" asked Esterbrook, with lazy interest, as they walked along. "Mrs.
Elliott assured me that she would not have had me come there dressed differently, had it been in her power to prevent it. "Dressed otherwise than you are," she said, "you would not be the same 'boy scout' that my husband has told us so much concerning." Of course this was encouraging, and I concluded that I might not have been so painfully ridiculous as I had supposed.
Roger Brooks came nearest to being his friend of any, yet even Roger knew very little about him. Elliott had never before said so much about his personal affairs as in the speech just recorded. "I'm poor woefully poor," went on Elliott gaily. His success seemed to have thawed his reserve for the time being.
It will be a grand affair. We must have new dresses, Graeme." She took up the note and read: "Mrs Roxbury's compliments to Miss Elliott." "Miss Elliott!" she repeated. "Why, Graeme! I am not invited." "So it seems; but never mind, Rosie. I am not going to accept it." Rose was indeed crestfallen. "Oh, you must go, of course. You must not stay at home on my account." "No; certainly.
On the banks of the Cooper, amid the lovely scenes of "Magnolia," Charleston's city of the dead, there stands a marble shaft enwreathed in the folds of the rattlesnake, the symbol of Revolutionary patriotism, and beneath it rests all that was mortal of William Washington and Jane Elliott his wife.
"Arthur Burton seems to be quite fascinated. I never supposed that he fancied Maud Elliott before, did you?" said one of the young ladies, a little maliciously, to Ella Perry. Ella tossed her head and replied that really she had never troubled herself about Mr. Burton's fancies, which was not true. The fact is, she was completely puzzled as well as vexed by Arthur's attentions to Maud. There was not a girl in her set of whom she would not sooner have thought as a rival. Arthur had never, to her knowledge, talked for five minutes together with Maud before, and here he was spending half the evening in an engrossing tête-
She had a trick of standing with her side face to you, so that her body seemed very long to her hips, and her dark eyes looked at you askance and roguish, whilst her lips puckered to a smile, a little on one side. 'It was not your old knight called me Sweetlips, Katharine said. 'I miscalled him foully last night. Cicely Elliott threw back her head and laughed.
She invariably solved his perplexities or relegated them to the limbo of gentle ridicule. "Just why should he want this East Coast job to fail?" he puzzled aloud. "He's in it, along with Elliott and Ainnesley, even if he isn't in so deep. That is, of course, assuming that he does want it to fail."
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