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Ingleside, over her shoulder into her ear; and the ear burned. Ruth got a sugared almond. "Only a kernel," said the merry doctor's wife, again. The doctor himself tried, and seized a slip of candied flag. "Warm-hearted and useful, that is all," said Mrs. Ingleside. "And tolerably pungent," said the doctor. Doctor Hautayne drew forth angelica.
They told him at home, the doctor said, not to stop anywhere; he knew what they meant by that, but he didn't care; it was as much his news as anybody's, and why should he be kept down to pills and plasters? Leslie was going to marry Doctor John Hautayne. Well! It was splendid news, and we had somehow expected it. And yet "only think!"
We had not thought how late it was; but mother and Ruth had remembered the oysters. Doctor John Hautayne took Leslie out to supper. We saw him look at her with a funny, twinkling curiosity, as he stood there with her in the full light; and we all thought we had never seen Leslie look prettier in all her life. After supper, Miss Pennington lighted up her Dragon, and threw in her snaps.
There was a cluster of them upon her bosom, and she held some in her left hand. Dr. Hautayne looked nobly handsome, as he came forward to her side in his military dress; but I think we all had another picture of him in our minds, dusty, and battle-stained, bareheaded, in his shirt-sleeves, as he rode across the fire to save men's lives.
Doctor Hautayne read beautiful things from the Brownings at Miss Pennington's that evening; it was his turn to provide; but for us, we looked into new depths in Leslie's serene, clear, woman eyes, and we felt the intenser something in his face and voice, and the wonder was that everybody could not see how quite another thing than any merely written poetry was really "next" that night for Leslie and for John Hautayne.
They think the trouble is with the confectionery, and so they try macaroon and pistachio instead of lemon and vanilla. Fresh people are better than fresh flavors. But I think we had everything fresh to-night. What a beautiful old home-y house it is!" "And what a home-y family!" said Doctor John Hautayne.
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