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"If he isn't here in five minutes I'm going to the station," she added, and went upstairs for her wraps. When she returned Miss Chris resorted to argument. "Don't be absurd, Eugie," she urged. "You can't go alone. It's too late and too far." "But I sent for a carriage," replied Eugenia decisively.
"Who'd have thought I couldn't keep a secret at my age." Then she patted Eugenia's hand. "He's a good man," she said softly, "and it's all right about Bernard." "I knew it would be," said Dudley quickly. "You know, Eugie, I always told you he'd do it." But Eugenia had turned away with swimming eyes. "I must tell Lottie," she said hurriedly. "Oh, Aunt Chris, how could you keep it?
"But Dudley won't find me after midnight." Then she regarded Miss Chris affectionately. "What a blessing that you didn't marry, Aunt Chris," she said. "You'd have prepared some man to merit damnation." "My dear Eugie," protested Miss Chris, half shocked, half flattered at the picture. "But you're a good wife, all the same, like your mother before you.
What boy was it, daughter?" Eugenia sat upright in the high rocker, fanning her heated face with her sunbonnet. "The Burr boy," she answered. The general gasped for breath, and turned towards the hall. "Come out here, Chris!" he called. "Here's Eugie been walking home with the Burr boy!"
Come here, Tweedle-dee," to the baby. "Come to your own Aunt Eugie and give her a kiss." The child looked at her thoughtfully and shook her head. "Kith man," she responded shortly. The swift red rose to Eugenia's face. Nicholas was looking at her, and her eyes flashed with the old anger at a senseless blush. "That's right, old lady," said the governor to the child.
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