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He had done so, and she had thanked him very sweetly, and had sent for some of the books, but he had never seen her read them. Perhaps Carlyon and at this thought he ground his teeth hard perhaps Carlyon had discouraged her. Horticulture seemed his chief hobby, and he was always talking to her about a new fern-house they were making at the Wood House, and Malcolm's poor books were neglected.
"I'll take you into our fern-house, which is just beyond here," she said. "We have got such exquisite maidenhairs and such a splendid Killarney fern. Come; you shall see." The fern-house seemed to be deserted. Helen opened the door first and ran forward. Prissie followed. The fern-house was not large; they had almost reached the end when a girl stood up suddenly and confronted them.
Then, as if further words were wrung from her against her will, she continued: "I saw the tears in your eyes in the fern-house at the Marshalls'. I am very sorry, but I did see them." "My dear Prissie!" said Maggie. She went up suddenly to the girl, put her arm round her neck and kissed her. "Come home now," she said, drawing Prissie's hand through her arm.
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