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"She forgets nothing; but I hope that bowl won't get broken, it is one somebody brought the general from China fifty years ago. Eugie is so careless. She invited the children to tea the other afternoon and I found her giving them jam on those old Tucker Royal Worcester plates." She broke off an instant to draw Galt into the reception rooms, where her eyes roved sharply over the decorations.
His father was unquestionably trying, but Eugie was unquestionably strong, and she loved her people with a passion which he felt to be romantically unsurpassable. Yes, Eugie was the hope of the family, after all. As for the girl, she put her arm about the general and drew him to his chair. He was failing rapidly; this she saw and suffered at seeing.
"You're a sad flatterer, Dudley! Isn't he, Eugie?" Eugenia turned with a questioning glance. "Oh, it's just his way," she returned good-humouredly. "A kindly Providence has decreed that he should cover over my deficiencies." Dudley protested affably, and ended by giving a hand to each. In the crowded rooms he had become at once the picturesque and popular figure.
As they rose from the table, she slipped her arm through her father's and went with him into the hall. "I'm tired," she said, stopping him on his way to the sitting-room, "so I'll go to bed." The general held her from him and looked into her face. "Anybody been troubling you, Eugie?" he asked. She shook her head. "You dear old goose no!" He patted her shoulder reassuringly.
What do you want with a bosom friend as black as the ace of spades?" "O papa, she ain't black; she's jes' yellow-brown." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Eugie," said Miss Chris severely. "Now go upstairs and wash your face and hands before dinner. It is almost ready. I wonder where Bernard is!" "Can't I wait twell the bell rings?" Eugenia asked; but Miss Chris shook her head decisively.
"He has been a fugitive from the State for years and a stranger to his wife and children. There was always something extraordinary in the fact that he escaped after conviction, and I suppose there was a kind of honour in his not breaking his bail. At least, that's the way Eugie seems to regard it and it is such a pitiful consolation that we might allow her to retain it.
A great fatigue weighed upon her, as if she had emerged, defeated, from a physical contest. Her hands trembled, and something throbbed in her temple like an imprisoned bird. As she sat in the silence, the door opened softly and Miss Chris came in, bearing a lamp in her hand. "Eugie," she said, peering into the darkness, "are you there?"
The judge looked at him for a moment before he went on in his even tones. "His wife was telling me," he said. "She was down here a week or two before the convention. It seems that they are both anxious to return to Richmond to live. She's a fine girl, is Eugie. It was a terrible thing about that brother of hers, and she's never recovered from it.
"Tell her you'd rather kiss a man every time." "Of course she had," replied Eugenia half angrily. "She's going to be her mother all over again." Juliet laughed her full, soft laugh. "Now, Eugie," she protested gaily, "my sins are many, but spare me a public confession of them." "She takes after her aunt," put in Sally frankly.
"Unclean! unclean!" she cried gaily. Her face had flushed from its warm pallor and her hair hung low upon her forehead. A long streak of clay lay across her skirt where she had knelt in the flower-bed. He seized her protesting hand, admiration lighting his eyes. "Why, little Eugie is a woman!" he exclaimed. "Can you grasp it, General?" The general shook his head.
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