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Nothing immediate, you understand; but eventually when the old governor goes I don't want to hurry him, Lord knows; but when the old man does pop off, I shall bring her here." I looked round the room. I had seen Miss Collett, and the mahogany and ormolu dining-room, with its great gilt mirrors, seemed a fitting background for her. "I am very glad, dear Tom," said Aunt Emmy.
Emmy looked again at the clock. She had the listening air of one who awaits a bewildering event. Once she shivered, and bent to the fire, raking among the red tumbling small coal with the bent kitchen poker. Jenny began to whistle again, and Emmy impatiently wriggled her shoulders, jarred by the noise.
I didn't mean to be mean; I want to see you so! Oh, dear, oh, dear! Oh, Serry, come quick!" Then space and the world slipped away, and she knew nothing of time again until she heard the anxious voice of Sarah below. "Emmy, where are you, Emmy?" "Here I be, Serry."
He went away with the vague notion that commercial companies were models of altruistic generosity. The main point, however, made clear by the exceptionally intelligent manager, being that he was richer by several hundreds a year, he began to dream of a more resplendent residence for Emmy and the boy than the little flat in Chelsea.
People who marry in that way generally do. It serves her right." So spoke Cousin Jane, whom Sypher found, in a sense, an unexpected ally. She made his task easier. Mrs. Oldrieve remained unconvinced. "And the baby just a month or so old. Poor little thing! What's to become of it?" "Emmy will have to come here," said Cousin Jane firmly, "and I'll bring it up. Emmy isn't fit to educate a rabbit.
You see, ez fur back ez a month and a half ago, or mebbe even further back than that, I was kind of given to understand that you and this young man were gittin' deeply interested in each other." "Why, how could you?" inquired Emmy Lou. "We weren't even engaged then. Who could have circulated such a report about us?"
Neither spoke much, except now and then, when the boy said a few words to his timid companion, indicative of sympathy and protection. "I hope he won't cross in such weather," Emmy said. "I bet ten to one he does," the boy answered. "Look, Mother, there's the smoke of the steamer." It was that signal, sure enough.
At Emmy's question he laughed, with a wave of his cigarette, and a clank of his bayonet against the leg of the chair. On a sou a day? Time enough for that when he had made his fortune. His mother then would doubtless find him a suitable wife with a dowry. When his military service was over he was going to be a waiter. When he volunteered this bit of information Emmy gave a cry of surprise.
And she had a mamma who cried about Miss Fanny's teaching school. But her grandpapa said he was proud of Miss Fanny. Emmy Lou knew all about Miss Fanny. Miss Fanny's sister was Aunt Louise's best friend. Mr. Bryan, the Principal, came often to the Fifth Reader room. He came for Language Lessons. Mr. Bryan told them he had himself introduced the Course in Language into the School Curriculum.
Among the notes in Rawdon's pocket-book was a draft for twenty pounds on Osborne's banker. This made her think about Mrs. Osborne. "I will go and get the draft cashed," she said, "and pay a visit afterwards to poor little Emmy." If this is a novel without a hero, at least let us lay claim to a heroine.
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