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Both the poor girls looked constrained and unhappy, and Miss Ogilvie wondered whether "Cousin Lisette's" evident intentions of becoming a fixture would be for their good or the reverse. "Are you better, my dear?" asked she, affectionately. "Yes, it was only the room," said Elvira.
Chico, the little dog so disdainfully rejected by Elvira, had attached himself from the first to Jock.
I went to Elvira, told her what I knew and made her give me Comstock's violin for Elnora over three years ago. She's been playing it ever since. I won't see her slighted and abused another day on account of a man who would have broken your heart if he had lived. Six months more would have showed you what everybody else knew.
"O, many things," returned Ella, "the half of which I could not repeat; but more particularly you spoke of troubles at home, and often repeated the name of Elvira with great bitterness.
'Dites, la jeune belle, où voulez-vous aller?" he carolled. "Well, now," he went on, opening the guitar-case, "there's another idea for you sing. Sing 'Dites, la jeune belle'! It will compose your spirits, Elvira, I am sure." And without waiting an answer he began to strum the symphony. The first chords awoke a young man who was lying asleep upon a neighbouring bench.
Why, almost all the modern tragic plays have their passages of relief, but the texture of Elvira is so much the same throughout, I cannot conceive a greater demand on any one. And then you must consider your company. Frankly, I cannot imagine a part less suited to Mr. Hawes than Macias; and his difficulties would react on you. 'I can choose whom I like, she said abruptly; 'I am not bound to Mr.
"Oh, I longed never to have come," said Elvira; "and then I began to get homesick, but they would not let me come!" No doubt Lisette had feared the revival of the Brownlow influence if her charge were once in England, for she had raised every obstacle to a return.
If only Elvira would listen to sense! The mutual friend he is an old stage-manager arranges the scene: Elvira in easy-chair by fire with crochet. Enter Adolphus. He lights a cigarette; flings the match on the floor; with his hands in his pockets paces up and down the room; kicks a footstool out of his way. "Tell me when I am to begin," says Elvira.
Nothing so connected as this history came to the ears of Mrs. Brownlow or her children. That evening they only heard fragments, much more that was utterly irrelevant, and much that was inexplic- able, all interspersed with inquiries and caresses and intent listening for Allen. Elvira might not have acquired brains, but she had gained in sweetness and affection.
"Time, the healer, and work, the consoler," enable us to bear many things which in the first keen freshness of grief seem unbearable. The threshers thought they would be done by six o'clock, so they decided not to stop for supper at five, as was the custom, but wait for their evening meal till the work of the day was completed. Elvira started home before this time, and good Mrs.
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