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But there are those who for the present it is needless to trouble any more than the chickens about the yard. Their hour will come, and in the meantime they are counted the fortunate ones of the earth. But now James Gracie fell sick. They removed him therefore from the men's quarters, and gave him Cosmo's room, that he might be better attended to, and warmer than in his own.
The whole catastrophe had been of so sudden and so violent a nature that she felt almost stunned herself. She slipped an arm under the old man's head, and it hung upon her like a leaden weight. "Oh, Avery, how dreadful!" exclaimed Gracie, aghast. "Take my handkerchief!" said Avery quickly. "Run down and soak it in the stream! Mind how you go! It's very steep." Gracie went like the wind.
"Ah! upon what is my valuable opinion desired, mother?" he asked in playful tones; then, in response to the explanation given, said that he thought it a very good plan, as it would surely do no harm to begin needed preparations promptly. "Then, papa, won't you excuse Gracie and me from lessons for the next few days?" asked Lucilla.
He stood looking down upon her irresolutely. Then he tiptoed away, meeting at the door the house-physician. "How long?" asked the lawyer, jerkily. "Probably until morning. Or at any minute," said the doctor, indifferently. He thought it the best thing Gracie could do. Vandervelde nodded.
"Who spoke to you? Well, madam, continue! How much do you consider him good for?" Piers pulled a coin impetuously from his pocket and slapped it down on the table in front of Grade. "There you are, Pixie!" he said. "I'm good for that." Gracie stared at the coin with widening eyes, not offering to touch it. "Oh, Piers!" she said, with a long indrawn breath. "It's a whole sovereign! Oh no!"
"O Lulu," exclaimed Gracie, struck with a sudden recollection, and laying down the spoon with which she was eating her oysters, "you know I was to stay alone. You oughtn't to have come in here." "Pooh! your time was up a good while ago," returned Lulu, "and Mamma Vi must have expected me to come in here to eat supper along with you. I hope she has sent as good a one to poor Maxie."
They are there with the little ones, and I know would be very glad to hear that your dear mother is over the worst of her trial." "I am going over there for Gracie, Elsie, and Ned, to take them home to Woodburn for a while," said Captain Raymond, "and if you two would like it, will take you both with me, leave you there, bring you back here, or carry you on to Woodburn, as you may prefer."
"Now you'll be all right, will you? I can leave you without worrying?" Grade gave her face a final polish, and nodded. Spent and sore though she was, her spirit was beginning to revive. "Is Mother really ill?" she asked, as Avery turned to go. "I don't know, dear. I'm rather anxious about her," said Avery. "It's all Father's fault," said Gracie. Avery was silent.
"Then I must enlighten their ignorance," he said gayly. "Excuse me a moment, my love. Take care of mamma for me while I'm gone, Gracie," and rising hastily he left the room. Max and Lulu were busily engaged looking over designs and materials for their work, and discussing their comparative merits.
"Lillie strikes me as being naturally clever," said Grace; "if she only would bring her mind to enter into your tastes a little, I'm sure you would find her capable." "But, Gracie, you've no conception how very different her sphere of thought is, how entirely out of the line of our ways of thinking. I'll tell you," said John, "don't wait for me.
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