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She was just turning over in her mind a stirring, scathing speech, when the cab door opened again, and Gowan stood before her. He had not been absent five minutes. "It is as I said it would be," he said. "They are here, at least Mollie is here. Chandos has gone out, and she is alone in the private parlor he has engaged for her. They have evidently missed their train.
When they had first met this gallant gentleman at Geneva, Gowan had been undecided whether to kick him or encourage him; and had remained for about four-and-twenty hours, so troubled to settle the point to his satisfaction, that he had thought of tossing up a five-franc piece on the terms, 'Tails, kick; heads, encourage, and abiding by the voice of the oracle.
Horse and rider were still in the curve of their swift flight when Isobel Knowles came out into the porch, yawning behind her plump, sunbrowned hand. A glance at Gowan cut the yawn short. She looked alertly afield and at once caught sight of the runaway. "Kid! O-oh!" she cried. "Mr. Ashton! on Rocket!"
"What will he think?" she exclaimed, unconsciously. "Oh, what will he think?" Then, seeing that Gowan had heard her, she looked at him piteously. "I did not mean to speak aloud," she said. "I had forgotten in my trouble that Grif will be waiting for me all this time. He has gone to the house to meet me, and I am not there." Perhaps he felt a slight pang, too.
"Gone to smash clean busted!" commented Gowan, as he turned about to go to his horse, his spurs jingling gayly. Knowles followed him, shaking his head. The girl had been gazing at Ashton with an expression that varied from sympathetic commiseration to contemptuous pity. As her adopted father and Gowan mounted, she rode over to them. "Go on," she said.
'I was thinking of the other proverbial church person Job, said Mrs Gowan. 'Either will do. It would be idle to disguise, consequently, that there is a wide difference between the position of your son and mine. I may add, too, that Henry has talent 'Which Edmund certainly has not, said Mrs Merdle, with the greatest suavity.
Instead of reining in, she glanced demurely at Ashton, and called over her shoulder: "Daddy, we'll be riding on ahead. You and Kid have the faster hawsses." "All right," acquiesced Knowles, without pausing in his work. Gowan said nothing; but he glanced up at the jaunty back of the tenderfoot with a look of cold enmity.
Kinross he's contagious." "But why do you suppose he went?" persisted Dora. "I don't think he bothered much over Mr. Gowan; he just used to avoid him. And you can see he likes Mrs. Gowan well enough, though I suppose not so well as that fat sister he lives with. What could have driven him away?"
You're as blind as when I " the lady blushed "as when I had to fling myself at you to make you see. The dear girl is as deeply in love with Lafayette as he is with her." "No? She doesn't show it. How can you tell?" "You know that Mr. Gowan is desperately in love with her." "That stands to reason. He couldn't help but be. Can't say I like the fellow. He may be all right, though.
Gowan had proposed that Jeemsie should be placed without delay in an English institution for the deaf and dumb, while the others traveled a little about Scotland before starting for America, as he had now decided to do.
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