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"My dear child, what nonsense have you got hold of now?" Mrs. Frayling exclaimed, laughing. "It is all here, mother," Evadne remonstrated, tapping her books. "Do look at them." Mrs. Frayling turned over a few pages with dainty fingers: "Tracing from without inward, the various coverings of the brain are," she read in one.
Alas! for human reason! He accused the Greeks of superstition: what name did he give to the faith he lent to the predictions of Evadne? I passed from the palace of Sweet Waters to the plain on which the encampment lay, and found its inhabitants in commotion.
That Evadne should know the entrancement of love herself so exactly, and not reverence it as holy, amazed her. "And you call it love," Evadne added, as if she had read her thought; "but it is not love. The threshold of love and hate adjoin, and it this feeling stands midway between them, an introduction to either.
As we love God, the love we feel for him goes out to others." Evadne sighed. "You make it seem a wonderful thing to be a Christian," she said. "To be a Christian, little one, Andrew Murray tells us, 'just means to have Christ's love. Real love means giving always, of our best." God so loved that he gave his Son, the essence of himself.
The Colquhouns accepted my invitation, but when the evening arrived Evadne came alone, and quite half an hour before the time I had dressed, luckily, and was strolling about the grounds when I saw the carriage drive up the avenue, and hastened round the house to meet her at the door. "The days are getting quite long," she said, as I helped her to alight.
Guthrie Brimston laughed aloud, while Evadne's laugh was soundless. Evadne suffered when she found herself being toadied by these people. She said nothing, however. They were Colonel Colquhoun's friends, and she felt herself forced to be civil to them so long as he chose to bring them to the house. And they were besides an evil out of which good came to her quickly.
'I will not leave you orphuns, I will cum ter you. I 'specs dat verse is meant speshully fer you, Miss 'Vadney." "But we can't see him," said Evadne. "Only wid de eye of faith, Missy. We trusts our friens in de dark. You didn't need ter see your father ter know he wuz in de house?" "Oh, no!" Evadne's voice trembled. "It's jes' de same wid my Father, Miss 'Vadney."
"I came to ask you if you would be so kind as to play us something," she said. Mrs. Sillinger was a perfect musician; and as Evadne listened, her heart expanded.
She was thinking of Evadne chiefly, wondering why she had had no news of her, why her sister Elizabeth did not write, and tell her all about the wedding; and she was just on the verge of anxiety in that state when various possibilities of trouble that might have occurred to account for delays begin to present themselves to the mind, when all at once, without hearing anything, she became conscious of a presence near her, and looking up she was startled to see Evadne herself.
Will you consent, Evadne, will you my wife will you?" He leant forward so close that her senses were troubled too close, for she pushed her chair back to relieve herself of the oppression, and the act irritated him.
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