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A night's reflection and an attitude of unbending aloofness on her own part might well bring him to a surrender. Perhaps it was something in Link Ferris's dejected gait, as he turned into his own lane that night, perhaps it was the instinct which tells a collie when a loved human is unhappy but Chum was at once aware of his master's woe.
He began to look very coldly and haughtily at Don Ippolito, whose heat died away under his stare, and who at last met it with a glance of tremulous perplexity. His hand had dropped from Ferris's arm, and he now moved some steps from him. "What is it, dear friend?" he besought him. "Is there something that offends you?
A rapid course brought them to Ferris's landing. "Ring," she said to the gondolier, "and say that one of the American ladies wishes to see the consul." Ferris was standing on the balcony over her, where he had been watching her approach in mute wonder. "Why, Miss Vervain," he called down, "what in the world is the matter?" "I don't know.
His time was limited. So, taking out a fountain pen, he had begun to scribble on the blank. Filling in Link's name and address, he wrote, in the "breed and sex" spaces, the words, "Scotch collie, sable-and-white, male." "Name?" he queried, breaking in on Ferris's rambling eulogy. "Huh?" asked the surprised Link, adding: "Oh, his name, hey?
Yours sincerely, KATE FERRIS. When Patty came in she found Priscilla silently and grimly scratching a hole into the roll-book where Kate Ferris's name had been. "Changed her mind again?" Patty asked pleasantly. "She's left college," Priscilla snapped, "and don't you ever mention her name to me again."
It would be time enough to whale the daylight out of him yes, and to rescue his possible victims from death when the dog should have overhauled the woolly pests. So, in dour fury, Link watched the pursuit and the flight. Then, of a sudden, the black rage in Ferris's visage changed to perplexity, and slowly from that to crass wonderment.
After which he resumed his advance; but at a solemn trot and with downcast mien. As he reached Link, the collie whined softly under his breath, gazing wistfully up into Ferris's face and then thrusting his cold nose lovingly into one of the man's loose-hanging hands. Link had winced visibly at sound of the jubilantly welcoming bark.
"I shall stick to my native Bergamask for the future; and Don Ippolito may translate for the foreign ladies." He ended by speaking English with everybody; Don Ippolito eked out his speeches to Mrs. Vervain in that tongue with a little French; Florida, conscious of Ferris's ironical observance, used an embarrassed but defiant Italian with the priest. "I'm so pleased!" said Mrs.
The queer sixth sense of a collie told Chum his god was deliriously happy, and that Chum himself had somehow had a share in making him so. Hence the dog's former gloomy pacing changed to a series of ecstatic little dance steps, and he kept thrusting his cold muzzle into the cup of Ferris's palm. Again Bench 65 was surrounded by an admiring clump of spectators.
She was charming; but to Ferris's thinking she had a fault, she kept him too much from Florida, though she talked of nothing else, and at the last she was discreetly merciful. "Do you think," whispered Florida, very close against his face, when they parted, "that I'll have a bad temper?" "I hope you will or I shall be killed with kindness," he replied.
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