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Evie's eyes brimmed suddenly, and her lip trembled. "If you're going to be cross about it " "I'm not going to be cross about it, but I want you to tell me exactly what you're doing." "Well, I'm telling you. I've broken my engagement, and I want to let Billy know it in the kindest way. I don't want to hurt his feelings. You wouldn't like me to do that yourself.
He learned of Evie's engagement from the Colonel, the morning after his return to St. Albans. He took the news very well. Much more coolly than I should have done had I been the disappointed one. In fact, a few minutes after he had been made acquainted with Evie's engagement, he came to us where we were in the garden, and congratulated us forthwith. "You are a lucky fellow, Sutgrove," he said.
Again there was something sarcastic in his tone, and I could see by the flush in Evie's cheek that the question had angered her. She answered almost hotly "I am quite sure if any one can capture the Pirate, Jim can." "I have no intention of giving up the pursuit just at present," I added quietly, with a glance of thanks to my dear one for her ready championship.
"What makes me uneasy is that I should be the man to come and tell the news. If it was any one you knew better " "You've probably heard that I'm not Evie's guardian," Wayne interposed. "I've no control at all over what she does."
Seated there, not quite in profile, against the light, her head turned and slightly inclined, in order to get a better view of Evie's finery, her slender figure possessed a sort of Vandyke grace, heightened rather than diminished by the long plumes and rich draperies of the month's fashion.
She was seeing whether it would hold. He asked her once why she had taken the Basts right into the heart of Evie's wedding. She stopped like a frightened animal and said, "Does that seem to you so odd?" Her eyes, the hand laid on the mouth, quite haunted him, until they were absorbed into the figure of St. Mary the Virgin, before whom he paused for a moment on the walk home.
When you've once seen him, I know you'll be more just to me. Till then I'm willing to go on being misunderstood." During the three more weeks that intervened before the family dinner Miriam got no further light on Evie's love-affairs.
But perhaps she was seeing the Imperial side of the company rather than its West African, and Imperialism always had been one of her difficulties. "One minute!" called Mr. Wilcox on receiving her name. He touched a bell, the effect of which was to produce Charles. Charles had written his father an adequate letter more adequate than Evie's, through which a girlish indignation throbbed.
As we entered the large hall, John beckoned us both into the smoking-room. I saw at once by his face that something disturbing had occurred. We followed him in, and he shut the door after us. "Look here, Mary, there's the deuce of a mess. Evie's had a row with Alfred Inglethorp, and she's off." "Evie? Off?" John nodded gloomily. "Yes; you see she went to the mater, and Oh, here's Evie herself."
I should be even more sorry than I am to give you this news to-day, if it were not that perhaps I can explain things a little better than Evie could." "I don't imagine that they require much explanation. I've seen from Evie's letters that " "That she was afraid of the situation. She hasn't changed toward you." "Do you mean by that that she still cares anything about me?" "She says she does."
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