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Evringham will be pleased. She just shines from her pretty little ears to her hoofs. Take her around and then come back. I want to talk to you." "If I don't come back," returned the boy, "you'll know the governor's looked at me a little too hard and I've been struck so." "Don't be any foolisher than you can help," returned Mrs. Forbes, "and hurry."
Evringham continued his disquisition to the bright-eyed young person on his knee: "My son Harry is turning out a pretty good sort, I fancy. I'm not particularly shy of giving him a trial, provided he'll do the same by me; but I suppose he will have to go West at first, anyway. Julia is a different thing. I can't whistle her on and off with the same frankness; and I must be careful, Anna Belle.
"'This is a beautiful country, said the man, and he gathered a white flower. "'Yes, returned Purity, smiling on him, 'you begin to see it now." Mrs. Evringham paused. Jewel's eyes were fixed on her unwinkingly. "Go on, please, mother," she said. "I think I've told enough," replied Mrs. Evringham. "Oh, but you finish it, mother. You can tell it just beautifully."
Evringham followed Eloise into the brougham, smiling. "It couldn't be better," she announced with much satisfaction as they drove away. "What?" "She is plain oh, plain as possible. Small eyes, large mouth, insignificant nose. She will never get on with father. He never could endure ugliness in a girl or woman. I have heard him say it was unpardonable.
"But One that would be any good to us! Jewel's mother thinks she knows such a One, and so does the child. I wish you'd look into this Christian Science with me. You might find it better than getting grandfather to pay our bills, better than marrying me to Dr. Ballard." Mrs. Evringham raised her eyes to her deity. "What have I ever done," she ejaculated, "that I should have a queer child!
Forbes had not been present, but as it was, he had never felt so embarrassed in his life. "Now eat your oatmeal, Julia," said the housekeeper repressively. "Mr. Evringham always reads his paper at breakfast." "Yes," replied the child with docility. She poured the cream from a small silver pitcher with a neatness that won Mrs. Forbes's approval; and Mr.
The child's eyes dwelt upon the pair admiringly as they waved their hands to her and rode away. Little she knew how their hearts were beating. Mrs. Evringham, watching from an upper window, suspected it. She felt that this afternoon would end all suspense. The child gave a wistful sigh as the horses disappeared, and jumping off the piazza, she wandered around the house toward the stable.
"I wish you had come with us," she said. "It was wonderful." Mrs. Evringham turned to her with a lofty air. "I have too much loyalty to friendship to be seen in such a place," she returned. "Nat said he wouldn't ask you to come down to bid him good-by, because he expects to come out to spend Sundays for a while." Mrs. Evringham looked at her daughter.
"She has accepted my invitation." Mrs. Evringham looked on and wondered. "What is it about that child that takes them all?" she soliloquized. "She reminds me of that dreadfully plain Madam what's-her-name, who was so fascinating to everybody at the French court." Eloise was smiling. "Now it's your turn, Jewel," she said. The child looked from one to another.
"Sit up here and I will tell you the address." She obeyed, and Mr. Evringham watched the little fingers clenched around the pen as she strove to resist its tendency to write down hill on the envelope. "And you're quite sure that more money will be forthcoming when yours is gone, eh?" he asked when the feat was accomplished. "Oh yes; if I need it." "How will it come, for instance?"
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