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Updated: June 7, 2025


There's nothing on earth, nothing at all to be alarmed at." She laid her hand nervously on Elma's arm. Half dead with shame as she was, Elma noticed it trembled. She noticed, too, that mamma seemed almost afraid to catch her eye.

A wild hope flashed through Elma's brain, to be discarded the next moment. Could Kitty have come to the house and visited her room and taken away her own money herself? "What do you mean about Miss Malone?" she cried. "She come here miss. Oh, Miss Helma, don't look at me so scornfully.

It was as a breath of fresh mountain air when Cornelia appeared upon the scene, bearing always the same terse, practical advice "Make sure of your own mind, and stick to it!" The colour came back to Elma's face as she listened, and hope revived in her heart. She declared anew that nothing in the world should separate her from Geoffrey; that she would be true to him to the last day of her life.

"Only," she added, "you seem smitten with Elma's charms." "I think she's extremely pretty," I remarked, with the photograph still in my hand. "Do you ever see her now?" "Never," she replied. "Since the day I left school we have never met. She was several years younger than myself, and I heard that a week after I left Chichester her people came and took her away. Where she is now I have no idea.

"Sixty pounds; but I was a fool, and doubled no trumps on a risky hand, on the chance of making the rubber. That was quite an exceptional drop!" "I should hope so, indeed!" Elma's horror was genuinely unassumed. "Sixty pounds! Why, it's more than many a poor family has to live on all the year round! Think of all the good you could do with sixty pounds!

Elma's locks were very thin and straggly, and she could not help coloring at this left-handed compliment; but at that moment Alice appeared on the balcony to tell the other two girls that the rules were ready, and that they might return to the house. The next important thing was to put to the vote who was to be asked to join and who was to be excluded.

But many a young bride will understand how it might be more sorrowful than the loss of houses and lands. It was the husband's first frown, his first petulant word; it was the key that opened Elma's understanding to the true estate of the past. She could no longer blind her eyes, as she had done, to a certain worldliness in her husband, and which had also reached her through him.

Alice looked thoughtful, and Elma's face turned rather pale; but she was the first to say she thought Gwin's suggestion an admirable one. "Then that is all right," said Gwin, "and I will set to work to write out the rules as neatly as I can. After they are all set out in due form, we can see if there are any improvements to be suggested."

Oh, we need not go indoors. Where is the money? Please, please, Carrie, let me have it at once." Elma's troubled face, her trembling hands, the anxiety depicted all over her nervous little figure, could not but show Carrie that there was something serious in the wind. "Well," she said, "I am awfully sorry. I I just did it in a fit of mischief.

At the best it was a sad story, a story full of wrong-doing, full of impulse, full of passion; and although Kitty tried hard to make Elma's part of it as light as possible, the squire's eyes blazed and a thundering note came into his voice as he listened. "That's a bad girl, Kitty," he cried; "and you ought to have nothing to do with her."

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