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"I don't believe a word of it," protested Nicholas. "He isn't much good, eh?" "Why, he's a brick," said Nicholas. "He's a cad," said Tom. Dudley laughed and blew a cloud of smoke in the air. "Well, she's a daisy herself, and as good as gold. She's the kind of woman to flirt herself hoarse and then settle down into dove-like domesticity. But what about Eugie? Is she really grown up?
"We've got no place to put her at home." The general threw back his great head and laughed till his wide girth shook like a bag of meal. "Oh, you needn't worry, Eugie," he said. "I'm not the man I used to be. She wouldn't look at me. Bless your heart, she wouldn't look at me if I asked her " Eugenia clasped her puppy closer and turned her eyes upon her father's jovial face.
If you call him common I'll hit you, an' an' you can't hit me back!" "Eugie, you ought to be " began Bernard, but she pushed the combatants aside with decisive thrusts of her sunburned little hand, and planted herself upon the threshold, her large, black eyes glowing like shaded lamps. "He wan't doin' nothin' to you, and you jest let him be.
His face was scarlet, and he fingered in desperation the ragged brim of his hat. "I reckon they're my freckles," he said doggedly. "And I reckon you can keep 'em," retorted Bernard, mimicking his tone. "We ain't going to steal 'em. I say, Eugie, here're some freckles for sale!" The dark little girl, who was putting up her books in one corner, looked up and shook her head.
Eugie, will you have breast or leg?" "I don't think I could have been at home," said the general, his face growing animated, as it always did, in a discussion of old times; "but I do remember once, when I was at Uncle Robert's, they sent me eighteen miles on horseback for the doctor, because Aunt Callowell had such a queer feeling in her side when she started to walk.
"We do look well together," she said with grave audacity. He laughed. "I am flattered. It may weigh with you in your future plans. Come, Eugie, let me love you!" But her mood changed and she dragged him with her out into the autumn fields.
I say, Eugie, do you know, I believe he used to have a pretty strong fancy for you didn't he?" Eugenia looked at him with a laugh. "Oh, a fancy?" she repeated. She moved away, gathering her hair from her shoulders; but in a moment she came back again and rubbed her cheek against Dudley's arm as she used to rub it against General Battle's old linen sleeve.
He appealed to Rann, who dissented in his broad, if blunt, intelligence. "I wouldn't trade that old building for all the brownstone between here and New York harbour," he declared. The governor laughed abstractedly, but a week later he recalled the proposition as he sat in Juliet Galt's drawing-room, and repeated it for the sake of her frank disgust. "I shall tell Eugie," she exclaimed.
"Come over, Eugie," she cried. "We've been watching you," and as Eugenia ascended the steps the door was opened and she was clasped in Emma Carr's arms. "We've shut our eyes and ground our teeth and put ourselves in your place," she said. "Oh, Eugie, she's worse than the dentist!" "I went to the dentist's first," was Eugenia's reply.
Sence Ole Miss Grissel done drop down dead uv er political stroke, he ain' step 'roun' mo'n he bleeged ter." The carriage jolted through Kingsborough, and Eugenia bowed smilingly to her acquaintances. Once she stopped to shake hands with the rector and again to kiss Sally Burwell, who flew into her arms. "Why, Eugie! you you beauty!" she cried. Eugenia laughed delightedly, her black eyes glowing.
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