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Even Miss Bat laughed at the funny sight, and Molly resolved to get Ralph to carve her a bouquet out of carrots, beets, and turnips for next time, as Grif would never think of that. Merry ran up the garden-walk alone, for Frank left her at the gate, and was fumbling for the latch when she felt something hanging there.
I must tell you the truth; it is bad news, cruel news. Oh, don't look so!" They were standing near the sofa, and Dolly gave one little moan, and sank down beside it. "Cruel news!" she cried, throwing up her hand. "Yes, I might have known that, I might have known that it would be cruel, if it was news at all Every one is cruel, the whole world is cruel; even Grif, even Grif!"
"Oh, Grif!" she said; "Grif darling!" But he did not offer to touch her, and strode past her outstretched hands. "Come into this room with me," he said, hoarsely; and the simple sound of his voice struck her to the heart like a blow. She followed him, trembling, and when they stood in the light, and she saw his deathly, passion-wrung face, her hand crept up to her side and pressed against it. 9
Asked him to pull out without me, and send down a boat from Port Mozambique. No go. Finally we fixed it up for me to slip aboard into the forecastle." "Well, I'll be switched!" croaked Griffith. "You did that, to escape marrying the daughter of a multi-millionaire!" "It would have been the same if she'd been poor, Grif. She's a lady, through and through, and I I love her! God! how I love her!"
"Oh, do not frown Upon this crown Of green pinks and blue geranium But think of me When this you see, And put it on your cranium." "O Molly, you will never hear the last of that if Grif gets it," said Jill, as the applause subsided, for the boys pronounced it "tip-top."
Phil went about his work looking as none of them had ever seen him look before. Mrs. Phil's tears fell thick and fast. Not understanding the mystery, she could blame nobody but Grif, and Grif she could not forgive. To Mollie the house seemed like a grave. She could think of nothing but Dolly, Dolly, white and worn and altered, lying upon her couch, her eyes closed, her breath fluttering faintly.
She knew Dolly better than the rest of them did, knew her highly strung temperament, and feared it, too. She might be spirited and audacious and thoughtless, but a blow coming through Grif would crush her to the earth. "You you mustn't set your heart too much upon his getting the letter in the morning, Dolly," she said.
And she gave Dolly's story in Dolly's own words, with the little sobs between, and the usual plentiful sprinkling of sweet, foolish, loving epithets, and with innocent artfulness made her seem so charming and affectionate, a little centre-figure in the picture she drew, that no man with a heart in his breast could have resisted her, and by the time Aimée had finished, Grif was so far moved that it seemed a sheer impossibility to speak again of relinquishing his claims.
"For three months," she answered. "I did not like to tell you because I knew she would not like it; but it dates from the time Grif went away." Mrs. Phil burst into an impetuous gush of tears, hiding her handsome, girlish face on Tod's neck. "It is a shame!" she cried out. "It is a cruel, burning shame! Who would ever have thought of Grif's treating her like this?"
Excited by the noise, Graciosa did her best, till the false head, loosened by the rapid motion, slipped round under her nose, causing her to stop so suddenly that Grif flew off, alighting on his own head with a violence which would have killed any other boy.
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