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It's not easy to tell beforehand how people are going to feel; but I can't imagine the High Valley ever seeming like a prison," replied Clover, vexed to find herself blushing, and yet unable to help it, Geoff's manner had such an odd intensity in it. "If I were sure that you could realize what it would be " he began impetuously; then quieting himself, "but you don't. How could you?
A keen anxiety mingled with indignation was in his eyes as he looked across the gate which the clergyman had fastened against him, indignation, yet also a smile. From the moment when Geoff's little voice had broken upon his angry reverie, Dick had begun to recover himself. "Chatty wants you so." It was only a child that spoke. But a child does not flatter or deceive, and this was true.
She spoke of Theo's kindness in a rapture of gratitude, and ended always by saying that, after all, that was nothing in comparison with the fact that he had begun by saving the boy's life. "I owe my child to him," she said, "I owe him Geoff's life; and now it almost seems natural, when he has done so much, that he should do anything that his kind heart prompts."
But still this gift I bring to her, Appropriate to her age, Regardless of her stifled scorn, Or well conceal-ed rage! She smiles upon these tender lines, As you all plainly see, But when she meets me all alone, How different it will be! Now comes Geoff's, to be given with a pretty little inkstand: There was a young maiden whose thought Was so airy it couldn't be caught; So what do you think?
When they lunched together the boy was so far forgetful of former experiences as to ply Theo with questions, as he had not done since the days when the young man was his tutor, and everything was on so different a footing. Geoff's excitement made him forget all the prudence he had acquired. His "I say, Warrender," over and over repeated drove Theo to heights of exasperation indescribable.
He decided at length to lay the matter before her frankly in detail, eliminating only the admission of Gentleman Geoff's identity. He respected the dead man's confidence, but it only precipitated him into a fresh quandary. Billie's naïve surprise when the question of her surname arose brought the matter to a crisis in his mind. "Why, I'm just 'Billie, I suppose," she had stammered.
You may think, Sir, that I'm exhibiting a lot of nerve, and it may be that I have a distorted picture in my mind of the life in this part of the country for a young girl like your daughter, but is she safe with all these low-caste half-breeds about?" "As safe as in a convent." Gentleman Geoff's eyes had narrowed. "I appreciate your interest, Mr.
Under the new regime, however, this long process was not possible, and the lessons had to be said in a summary manner which did not at all suit Geoff's way of thinking. He did not complain, but he was puzzled, turning it over in his mind with slow but progressive understanding. The big writing-table seemed typical to Geoff.
The horn! The lus-ty, lus-ty horn! 'Tis not a thing to laugh to scorn, A thing to laugh to scorn! Long before the boys appeared in sight, their voices rang through the canyon in a chorus that woke the echoes, and presently they came into view, bearing two quarters and a saddle of freshly killed mutton, hanging from a leafy branch swung between Jack's sturdy shoulder and Geoff's.
It gave him a pang of anger to see her so; and unconsciously, without knowing why, he was more indignant with Theo at these moments, than he was when Theo sat at table and talked about matters beyond Geoff's ken. What had Theo to do with that far-away look? What could he have to do with it? Geoff could not tell; he was aware there was no sense in his anger, but yet he was angry all the same.
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