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Gilda Penny was slightly the larger, more definite; Amity Merken had a timid, almost furtive, expression in the opulence of the Penny establishment, while Gilda was complacent; but otherwise the two women were identical.
He thought with a pang of how at this hour at home they ate the sweet soup, sometimes with apples in it from Aunt Maïla's farm orchard, and sang together, and listened to Dorothea's reading of little tales, and basked in the glow and delight that had beamed on them from the great Nürnberg fire-king. "Oh, poor, poor little 'Gilda! What is she doing without the dear Hirschvogel?" he thought.
'Ah, said Gilda, 'you're on mamma's side. 'I am on no side, said Mabel, 'provided he makes you happy. 'Which you think rather doubtful? replied Gilda, with a jarring little laugh. 'Really, Mabel, I do think you might resign him a little more gracefully! 'I'm afraid I don't understand you, said Mabel, proudly. 'No? said Gilda. 'You are very innocent, dear.
I have no intention of adding to the ignorant prejudice against improved methods of travelling." "There's your arm," she insisted with spirit. "An untried engine. The Hecla works along smoothly at twenty miles an hour." Amity cast a glance of swift appeal at her sister, but Gilda Penny persisted. "Ungodly," was the term she selected. Jasper ignored her.
Then the Countess Gilda addressed herself squarely to Indiman. "I am in your debt, Mr. Indiman, and you must permit me to discharge the obligation. My dear uncle, your purse." Indiman bowed and accepted the fifty-dollar bill tendered him. "Now we are quits," she said, smiling. "Not quite," he answered, hardily. He drew a half-dollar from his waistcoat-pocket and offered it to her.
But of course you don't believe a word against him! 'I believe it all and more! she said with a passionate sob. Caffyn turned to her. 'You too, Gilda! he cried pathetically.
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