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Ethelberta had let him go a second time; yet on foregoing mornings and evenings, when contemplating the necessity of some such explanation, it had seemed that nothing less than Atlantean force could overpower their mutual gravitation towards each other.
'Perhaps he is: but he does not want civility from me. Where there's much feeling there's little ceremony. 'It certainly seems that he does not want civility from you to make him attentive to you, said Picotee, stifling a sigh; 'for here is a letter in his handwriting, I believe. 'You might have given it to me at once, said Ethelberta, opening the envelope hastily.
Julian's card was discovered; and Joey informed them that he had come particularly to speak with Ethelberta, quite forgetting that it was her evening for tale-telling. This was real delight, for between her excitements Ethelberta had been seriously sick-hearted at the horrible possibility of his never calling again. But alas! for Christopher.
'Shall I run round? said Picotee, 'and if he is not watching them we will go out. 'Very well, said her sister. The time of Picotee's absence seemed an age. Ethelberta heard the roar of another rocket, and still Picotee did not return. 'What can the girl be thinking of? she mused. . . . 'What a half-and-half policy mine has been!
And if I am not there to take her instructions of course she will give up the idea, which is just what I want her to do. Christopher begged Sol to go. Whether Ethelberta was right or wrong, he did not stop to inquire. She was in trouble; she was too clear-headed to be in trouble without good reason; and she wanted assistance out of it.
When he had reached the door of the room, he looked back and saw the two sisters standing as he had left them, and equally tearful. Ethelberta at once said, in a last futile struggle against letting him go altogether, and with thoughts of her sister's heart: 'I think that Picotee might correspond with Faith; don't you, Mr. Julian? 'My sister would much like to do so, said he.
And certainly there is this to be said, that the fact of having been bred in a wealthy home does slightly redeem an attempt to attain to such a one again. Ethelberta smiled a smile of many meanings. 'However, we are wasting words, he resumed cheerfully. 'It is better for us to part as we met, and continue to be the strangers that we have become to each other.
Neigh, said Ethelberta. 'He told me he was coming here. I believe he is waiting for an interview with me. 'H'm, said Lord Mountclere. 'Business only business, said she. 'Shall I leave you? Perhaps the business is important most important. 'Unfortunately it is.
A short time after this Picotee was in the company of Ethelberta, and she took occasion to mention Joey's attachment. Ethelberta grew exceedingly angry directly she heard of it. 'What a fearful nuisance that boy is becoming, she said. 'Does father know anything of this? 'I think not, said Picotee. 'O no, he cannot; he would not allow any such thing to go on; she is so much older than Joey.
As if by an ungovernable impulse, Ethelberta broke into laughter also laughter which had a wild unnatural sound; it was hysterical. She sank down upon the leaves, and there continued the fearful laugh just as before. Lord Mountclere became greatly frightened. The spot they had reached was a green space within a girdle of hollies, and in front of them rose an ornamental cottage.
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