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Well, that was if I may use the word notorious." Flossy's eyes gleamed. "So I expected to hear," she murmured. "I am afraid that my poor brother has some thought of of marrying her." "Oh, surely not!" said Mr. Ferguson. "Surely he wouldn't be such a fool!" "Can you tell me anything definite about her?" "Excuse me, madam, for asking; but you naturally wish to prevent the marriage, if possible?"
She grasped at the little phial which Flossy had half hidden in the white folds of her dressing-gown grasped at it, and succeeded, by the quickness of her movement, in wrenching it from Mrs. Vane's hand. Then, even by the dim light of the candle, she could see that Flossy's color waned, and that her narrow eyes were distended with sudden fear. "Why do you take that? Give it me back!"
The actual truth was that Flossy's shadows began on Sabbath evening, while Marion was yet on the heights. It was just as they stepped from the aisle of the church into the wide hall that Col. Baker joined her. This was not a new experience. He was very apt to join her. No other gentleman had been a more frequent or more enjoyable guest at her father's house.
I saw you in the family pew this morning. I felt certain of being in time to take you to the South Side to-night. St. Stephen's Church has a grand choral service this evening. I was in at one of the rehearsals, and it promised to be an unusually fine thing. I am disappointed that you did not hear it." Here began Flossy's unhappiness. Neither Marion nor Ruth could have appreciated it.
"'If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee, is another Bible verse. These verses of Flossy's mean something, surely. What do they mean, is the question left for us to decide?
After many plans were discussed it was finally decided that Flossy and Ruth should seek quarters at the hotel in Mayville, Ruth coming over to the meetings only when her strength and her fancy dictated, and having some of the luxuries of home about her. It seemed to fall naturally to Flossy's lot to accompany her; indeed, a barrier was in the way of either of the others being chosen.
Apparently both Lyons and Williams were content with a surface reconciliation between their wives which did not bar family intercourse. At least her husband made no suggestion that she should call on Mrs. Williams, and Flossy's cards did not appear.
He would not sit down; but he was not strong enough to stand without support. Cynthia was clinging to him with her face half hidden on his shoulder; his arm was clasped about her waist. "What does this mean?" said the General. "It means," answered Flossy's quiet voice, "that Hubert is raving, and that the doctor must be sent for immediately."
Some of the criticisms which had sounded full of keenness and wit when she heard them, recurred to her at this time, and some way, with Flossy's low, earnest voice filling her heart, they dwindled into shallowness and coarseness. All the same, their baneful influence was on her, and helped to hold her back from opening her lips, for the critic had been Professor Ellis.
Even when her heart had been hungering for an invitation to Flossy's ball, she considered that she despised these people, but the interview had served to establish her in the glowing faith that they, by their inability to appreciate her, had shown themselves unworthy of further consideration. The desire which she had experienced of late for a renewal of her intimacy with Mrs.
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