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She knew me, but she did not know what she was saying. "I am so thankful!" she exclaimed. "The peace of mind the peace of mind I cannot tell you what a relief it is!" Williamson came in on tiptoe and lit the fire, and Evadne's maid followed him in and stood looking on, half sheepishly and half in defiance.
Frayling, some of Evadne's wisdom occurring to her with the old worn axiom upon which for untold ages the masculine excuse for self-indulgence at the expense of the woman has rested. "I believe Evadne is right after all. I shall get out her letters, and read them again. And what is more, I shall write to her just as often as I please." Mr.
"So, my dear brother," the letter ran, "I am giving you this responsibility as only a brother can. I have left Evadne absolutely untrammelled. I have no fear that my little girl will abuse the trust. She is wise beyond her years, with a sense of honor as keen as your own." The Judge's head sank upon his hands. It was for Evadne's good he had persuaded himself.
Mass Lennux use ter call 'em Egyp an' Erybus." Pompey's face softened. "When my leetle gal died he jes' put his han' on my shoulder an' sez he, 'Pompous, you jes' go home an' cheer up de Missis, yer don't hev no call to worry 'bout de horses. An' he tuk care of dem jes' as ef he'd ben a coachman. We'll never fergit it, Dyce an' me." Evadne's eyes shone. That was just like her father!
"But what a memory you have, my dear, to be able to give the exact words!" Evadne's countenance fell. She was disheartened, but still she persisted. "It is you good women," she said, clasping Mrs. Beale's hand in both of hers, and holding it to her breast: "It is you good women who make marriage a lottery for us. You, for instance.
The equinoctial gales had set in early that year. They began on Evadne's wedding day with a fearful storm which raged all over the country, and burst with especial violence upon Morningquest, and the wind continued high, and showed no sign of abating. It was depressing weather, and Mrs. Orton Beg sighed more than once unconsciously.
Evadne surprised the glance entreating, reproachful, loving, helpless what was it? The look of a woman who finds it a relief to know the worst. Evadne's heart began to contract; the girlish gladness went out of her eyes. Mrs. Beale and Edith arrived and joined her, and Menteith came and attached himself to them at once.
Colonel Colquhoun did not take this last proof of Evadne's peculiar views at all well. He was becoming even more sensitive as he grew older to what fellows say or think, and he was therefore considerably annoyed by her conduct, so much so, indeed, that he actually spoke to her upon the subject himself. "People will say that I have married Mrs. Grundy," he grumbled.
Will you give it to me?" "Oh, Doctor Randolph!" Isabelle's voice fell shrill upon Evadne's silence, "they are calling for you in the other room to decide a knotty question something about microbes. I told them I was sure you would know. Will you come?" John Randolph put the case quickly in his pocket and smiled as he turned away. He thought he had read consent in her lovely eyes.
Lady Adeline asked. "Do you talk to them and tell them stories?" "No," said Evadne, "I don't talk much; I just don't lose sight of them or interfere if I can possibly help it." The twins had no reverence for anything or anybody. One day they were in Evadne's little sitting room which overlooked the courtyard. It was an antechamber to her bedroom, and peculiarly her own by right of primogeniture.
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