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The thought of his age weighed on him. He rose to his feet and threw back his fine shoulders. "Aunt Harriet and your mother and Christine and her husband-to-be, whatever his name is we'll be a happy family. But, I warn you, if I ever hear of Christine's husband getting an apostle spoon " She smiled up at him. "You are looking very grand to-day. But you have grass stains on your white trousers.
Between the move from the old house, her wedding plans, the claims of her husband-to-be, and the Library work, she was busy now, every instant of the day. Yet she found time, as only a busy woman can, for writing, and put a new ardour into her attempts, because of the little beginning of encouragement. Hoping and fearing, she presently sent a second article on its way.
And when they made their last inspection before really coming to take possession of the cottage, she came very close to him, Anne was several inches shorter than her big husband-to-be, and when she got as close as this to Jim she had to tip her serious little face up quite far, which Jim found attractive, and said, in a little, breathless voice: "It's going to be like a home from the very start, isn't it, Jim?
I have tried to escape you by what means I had at my command. Now it shall be war! War, famine, plague!" Her young voice rang out sharp and clear, sending terror to all cowardly hearts, not least among these being those beating in the breasts of the priests. "Now," speaking to the soldiers, "go liberate my father, my sister and my husband-to-be; and woe to any who disobey me!
She looked at her father, talked to him, thought of him, studied him, and throwing off lingering doubts for she never felt she quite knew her father enjoyed him, eating as he was in peace with her husband-to-be. When Laramie's cigars were lighted after the dinner, Barb seemed to feel more at his ease. He told stories of his old railroad days and laughed when Kate and Belle and Laramie laughed.
"Oh, Dick, just look at the sum!" she cried. "It sure is a tidy nest egg," smiled the husband-to-be. "I knew dad would come down handsomely. He's the best dad ever was!" "Yes, Dick, and I know I am going to love him just as if I was his own daughter," answered Dora. Mrs. Stanhope gave her daughter much of the family silver and jewelry, and also a full supply of table and other linen.
Miss Willoughby's interest was diverted to a discussion of the defects of the various railroad systems of Great Britain. At the head of the table Mr. Beach had started an intimate conversation with Mr. Ferris, the valet of Lord Stockheath, the Honorable Freddie's "poor old Percy" a cousin, Ashe had gathered, of Aline Peters' husband-to-be.
He was probably regarded as a stranger who had drifted into the church to enjoy the familiar yet interesting spectacle of a man and a maid bound together by a rite which was the more interesting because it seemed so ephemeral, yet meant so much. Several of the young women of Eagle Pass had aided Sylvia in getting ready to meet her husband-to-be at the altar.
She was ever prepared to spring, to strike, to wrench their plans to suit her own ends; but, contrive as she might, she could not succeed in leaving Iris alone with Bulmer. Full of device, she was foiled at each turn. The day wore, the sun went down, the starlit sky made beautiful a parched earth, but never a word in privacy did Iris exchange with her husband-to-be.
They were to be away two weeks only. No one knew just where, except that some small part of the trip was to be spent on a flying visit to young Jock McChesney out in Chicago. He himself was to be married very soon. Emma McChesney had rather startled her very good-looking husband-to-be by whirling about at him with,
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