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He was talking to someone. We both heard another voice. WHO did you say it was, Georgie?" "Santa Claus. Oh, Emmie, please don't be mad. I I wanted to see him so and and when he came I I " "There, there, Georgie; don't cry, dear. We're not cross. You were talking to someone you thought was Santa. Where is he?" "He WAS Santa Claus. He SAID he was. He went away when you came into the dinin'-room."
'Go on, then, he said. 'Go on, let me be quiet. Emmie turned and looked at him. 'You deserve what you've got, she said to her father bluntly. 'Go on, he answered mildly. 'Go on. Another night passed a night nurse sat up with Mr. Rockley. Another day came. Hadrian was there as ever, in his woollen jersey and coarse khaki trousers and bare neck.
"Bos'n Emmie, of course and I have been for a walk. 'Twan't her fault, 'twas mine. I kept her out of school. I was well, kind of lonesome." The teacher's gray eyes flashed in the lamplight. "Cap'n Whittaker," she cried, "please don't waste time. I didn't come here to talk about the weather nor Emily's reason for not attending school. I don't care why she was absent.
Still he persisted, and triumphed. Emmie raved and wept, the secret flew abroad. But Matilda was silent and unmoved, Hadrian was quiet and satisfied, and nipped with fear also. But he held out against his fear. Mr. Rockley was very ill, but unchanged. On the third day the marriage took place.
Kenneth was standing in the bower at the foot of my garden, looking pensively on the distant landscape, which was bathed in the rich glow of the setting sun. His right arm embraced the slender waist of Lizzie his left encircled the shoulder of Emmie Graham. "We must have patience, darling," said Kenneth, with an effort at cheerfulness.
"They would think so, like the woman of a hundred years old, who said on her daughter's death at eighty, 'Ah, poor girl, I knew I never should rear her! How shall I get to see the Infirmary here?" "Miss Mohun would take you." "Can't I go without a fidgety old maid after me?" "I'll tell you what I wish you would do, Emmie.
This was life. From the stall the two wandered to the swing-boats, and towering high above the tawdry glitter of the revel saw through the red mist the Abbey, austere and still, the School House dormitories stretching silent with suspended life, the class-rooms peopled with ghosts. A plank jarred under the boat. "Garn, surely it ain't time to stop yet," wailed Emmie.
Having thus let off a little steam, the worthy lady rushed out of my house, entered the dining-room of Seaside Villa, where she found Kenneth and his father seated at breakfast, and related to them in wild surprise how that Bella and Kenneth had run away together the night before, and that she had come in hot haste to tell them so, but how it happened that Kenneth was there and Bella not there, she could not understand at all; and concluding that the incomprehensibilities of the world were culminating, and that the sooner she prepared for the final winding up of all terrestrial things the better, she ran to her own room, embraced the wondering Emmie, burst into a flood of tears, rummaged her pocket for her thimble, scissors, and key, and, not finding them there, fell into the arms of Mrs Niven, and fainted dead away for the second time that morning.
Even the prosaic Emma Jane was affected by them, for in the evening she said, "I don't expect you to believe it, but I have another idea, that's two in one day; I had it while I was putting cologne on your head. The rose of joy might be helpfulness." "If it is, then it is always blooming in your dear little heart, you darlingest, kind Emmie, taking such good care of your troublesome Becky!"
It had something of the charity-boy about it still; but now it was a man's figure, laconic, charged with plebeian energy. She thought of the derisive passion in his voice as he had declaimed against the propertied classes, to her father. 'You don't know, Emmie. Perhaps he's not come for that, she rebuked her sister. They were both thinking of the money.
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