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He had no idea of hesitations or holdings off, and would have none; and met Gracie as if they had parted only yesterday, and as if her word to him always had been yes, instead of no. In fact, they had not been together five minutes before the whole life of youth returned to them both, that indestructible youth which belongs to warm hearts and buoyant spirits.
"Well, I'll try to have faith," said Miss Grace; "but I do trust it will be some days before John comes down on me with his raptures, men in love are such fools." "But, dear me!" said Miss Letitia, as her head accidentally turned towards the window; "who is this riding up? Gracie, as sure as you live, it is John himself!" "John himself!" repeated Miss Grace, becoming pale.
In a very few minutes the litter was all collected, and Piers turned round and looked back at her across the dim chancel. "Feeling better?" he said. She did not answer him. "What made you come in like that?" she asked. He replied to the question with absolute simplicity. "I've just brought Gracie home again.
"Thanks, Miss Leicester," said Everard, warmly; "I can't tell you how much how very much obliged I am." "I should not imagine that such a very ungracious compliance called for such excessive thanks," said Grace, sarcastically. "Don't be ill-natured, Gracie," returned her brother, laughing; "you don't know how glad I am."
"Mamma is not going," she said, "and offers to take care of Gracie, if the child stays behind. Every one seems to fear the ride would be too long and wearisome for her." "Yes, I think so," the captain said, fondling her, for she was sitting on his knee. "I'd like to go, papa," she said, looking up coaxingly into his face, "I like to go driving, and to sit on your knee."
Of all the men I ever knew, he was the one I should have been best pleased to have you marry!" "It was not wholly on your account, John. You know there was our father," said Grace. "Yes, yes, Gracie; but he would have preferred to see you well married. He would not have been so selfish, nor I either. It is your self-abnegation, you dear over-good women, that makes us men seem selfish.
Miss Chancellor knew what had passed between them as well as if she had heard it; Mr. Gracie had promised that he would lead her on, that she should justify his description and prove the raciest of her class. They would laugh about her as they went away, lighting their cigars, and for many days afterwards their discourse would be enlivened with quotations from the "women's rights girl."
"Yes, indeed! and we'll have to be nice, nice children to fit the home, won't we, Gracie?" "Yes, and to fit papa and mamma," she responded, sending a merry glance from one to the other. Both smiled upon her in return. "We are going to have a house-warming this evening, Gracie," said her father: "do you know what that is?" "No, papa; but I think it's very nice and warm now in all the rooms.
"You seem to have only just found it out; but Grace and I have known it this long while; haven't we, Gracie?" "Yes, indeed!" returned the little sister. "And so have I," said Lulu, hanging her head and blushing, "only sometimes I've forgotten it for a while. But I hope I won't any more, dear papa," she added softly, with a penitent, beseeching look up into his face.
She twinkled at the telephone for a minute, then called another number. "That you, Gracie?" The fair-haired, tall, and very graceful girl at the other end of the wire acknowledged that it was. "Please suggest something interesting, Betty," she added plaintively, as she took a chocolate from the ever-present candy box and nibbled on it discontentedly.
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