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What he lacked was easy to acquire compared with what he had already won; and his weakness for Lena Harpster was, after all, much less serious than the moral delinquencies of the men of Felicity's own class.
"Bishop Wycliffe," Emmet returned, coming into the hall and taking off his hat, "I had n't decided to call upon you yet. It is your daughter whom I wish to see." It was months since the bishop had given Felicity's advocacy of this man a thought. The election seemed to have killed her interest, for she had not spoken of him since, and besides, his suspicions were centred solely on Leigh.
One couldn't touch pitch and not be denied. There were, it seemed, an overwhelming number of such proverbs, and most of them forbidding. But she stayed on. More than that, she found herself after a time stammering a question concerning each new cavalier as he appeared. And each time Felicity's answer was unbelievably unconcerned and laconic. "Nothing doing," she'd say. "He's hard boiled."
And her tone made Felicity wheel. "Of what?" Felicity demanded, a little blank. Cecille laughed. It was a woeful, croaking attempt at flippancy. "Oh, the old line of stuff!" She had never before employed Felicity's brand of slang. It came unpleasantly from her tongue. "The wages of sin and all that sort of thing."
Felicity's mood was a revelation to Leigh, though he could not fail to divine its cause, and to guess the emotions she had undergone. Had her pride led her to defend her husband, or had she been reserved and sad, he would not have been surprised, but her sparkle and gaiety were like the glancing of light on the surface of a rock. She even shared in Mrs.
"I have forgiven her," was Felicity's answer, "but I am not going to speak first for all that." "It's very wrong, and, more than that, it's so uncomfortable," complained Cecily. "It spoils everything." "Were they ever like this before?" I asked Cecily, as we talked the matter over privately in Uncle Stephen's Walk. "Never for so long," said Cecily.
He, and he alone, passed the ordeal, munching those dreadful mouthfuls without so much as a change of expression on his countenance, while the facial contortions the rest of us went through baffled description. In every subsequent trial it was the same. Peter never made a face, and no one else could help making them. It sent him up fifty per cent in Felicity's estimation.
Peter, as was to be expected, took Felicity's part, and said the Story Girl ought to speak first because she was the oldest. That, he said, had always been his Aunt Jane's rule. Sara Ray thought Felicity should speak first, because the Story Girl was half an orphan. Felix tried to make peace between them, and met the usual fate of all peacemakers.
And Felicity was standing before the other girl, every line of her pulsing triumph. "Not him!" Cecille cried. She could not have understood the triumph better had Felicity explained with a torrent of words. "Oh, not him!" with quick, unthinking horror. "He he's only a boy." "Who?" demanded Felicity blankly. "Mr Mr. Blair." Felicity's laugh was staccato. "Him? Good Lord, no. Dunham!"
They will take you to a hiding-place on the coast I have instructed them." As he talked he helped them through the window, and bade them good-bye hurriedly; but he did not let Mistress Felicity's hand drop till he had kissed it and wished her a whispered God-speed.
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