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Phillip Stanley went to her, took her white face between his hands and kissed her tenderly, as he said: "Very well, Emelie, I will go at once for her, and, from my soul, I am glad that you have taken this stand." He hurried from the house and went with all speed to the Minturn mansion. He found Mrs. Minturn on the veranda, Katherine and her guests having gone for a walk.
At length Emelie rose to take her leave, overwhelming Elise with a flood of polite speeches, which she was obliged to answer as well as she could, and the Judge, who had promised to show her the lions of the place, accompanied her; on which the rest of the guests dispersed themselves.
Louise cast a look of high indignation upon him, and then gave her share of sweetmeats to a little girl, who complained that she had had none. Supper came, and Emelie, whose eyes flashed unusual fire, seemed to wish fervently to win back that regard which she, perhaps, feared to have lost already, and with her playful and witty conversation electrified the whole company.
The Judge felt the sting of the viper, and with a glance which flashed a noble indignation, he replied to his beautiful neighbour, "You are right, Emelie; I know no woman who deserves more love or esteem than she!" Emelie bit her lip and grew pale; and she would assuredly have grown yet paler, could she only have understood the sentiment which she had awakened in the breast of her former admirer.
"What do I think of what, Emelie?" he queried, evasively. "Why, of the way Phil is carrying on to-night! Did you ever see anybody so lost to all things mundane save the presence of a certain very dainty little lady as he is at this moment?" "He does seem unusually frisky, I admit especially with his feet," said the professor, with a smile. "His feet! Will, just look at him!
Emelie, the Colonel's widow, was elegant in the highest degree; looked handsome, and distinguished, and almost outdid herself in politeness; but still Elise, spite even of herself, felt stiff and stupid by the side of her husband's "old flame." Beyond this, she had now a great distraction.
Stanley, that assembled in Prof. Seabrook's study, after the departure of the other physicians, to talk over the weighty matter. "Well, Emelie, what have you to say about it?" the elder man inquired of his wife, in a voice that was husky from suppressed feeling. "Oh, Will, pray do not put the responsibility of a decision upon me!" Mrs. Seabrook returned, with quivering lips.
The beautiful Emelie, on the contrary, thought of herself; was livelier and more brilliant than ever, and, as usual, assembled all the gentlemen around her.
"Nay, that is indeed delightful," said he, in a very cheerful voice, as soon as he had read the letter. "Elise! Mrs. S , Emelie, is here. She is only just this evening arrived; I must hasten to her directly. Sweet Elise, will you not come with me? It would be polite." "Oh, it is so late!" said Elise, much less pleased than her husband; "and I fancy it rains.
Gunilla was instructing Emelie on the manners and character of the French; and Emelie, whose countenance since the discussion of the marriage question had worn a bitter expression, endeavoured with a tolerably sharp tone to make her superior information felt, and in return was mown down, as it were, at one stroke by Mrs. Gunilla, who had never been in France.
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