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Miss Martineau, fond as she was of them, felt absolutely scandalized to keep her out of the house for a whole month, and then to admit her in this fashion such a lot of sunlight such a heap of flowers, no crape on the black dresses, and Jasmine's face quite bright and her hair as curly as usual. Miss Martineau began a little set speech, but Jasmine interrupted her.
Mrs Macintyre agreed most eagerly to Jasmine's suggestion, and accordingly, two days after Meg had 'saved her immortal soul, Leucha and Jasmine were excused lessons Leucha on the plea of ill-health, Jasmine because she wished to help her darling Hollyhock's friend. The two girls were excused lessons; as for preparation for the prize competition, that they might go on with or not, as they wished.
Well, here is the ship mine and Jasmine's, and it has come Home for me, and for Jasmine, too, I hope." Stafford looked out over the veld.
Danesfield she went straight home, and without paying any attention to the clear voice of her pet Daisy, who called to her from the garden, or to Jasmine's little impatient "Sister, I want you to help me to arrange the trimming on my new black skirt," she ran upstairs, and locked herself into her mother's room.
Miss Egerton, the principal of the seminary in question, opened her eyes a good deal at Jasmine's modest request.
"That's odd," said the maid. "But will you tell us something about this Mr. Wei?" Upon this, Jasmine launched out in a glowing eulogy upon her friend. She expatiated with fervour on his youth, good looks, learning, and prospects, and with such effect did she speak that Miss King, who began to take in the situation, ended by accepting cordially Jasmine's proposal.
She loved Jasmine as much as she could love any woman, and she said now, as she looked at Jasmine's face, so alert, so full of raillery, yet with such an undertone of misery: "She looks as if she needed a friend." After dinner she contrived to get her arm through that of her hostess, and gave it an endearing pressure. "May I come to you for a few days, Jasmine?" she asked.
Ian Stafford had noted this look; but he had seen many another man look at Jasmine Grenfel with just as much natural and unbidden interest, and he shrugged the shoulders of his mind; for the millions alone would not influence her, that was sure. Had she not a comfortable fortune of her own? Besides, Byng was not the kind of man to capture Jasmine's fastidious sense and nature.
When she received Jasmine's proposal to sing at Glencader she had hesitated to accept it, for society had no charms for her; but at length three considerations induced her to do so. She wanted to see Rudyard Byng, for South Africa and its shadow was ever present with her; and she dreaded she knew not what.
But Primrose had not got over the excitement which was growing within her all day; she took the letter out of Jasmine's hands, folded it, and returned it to its envelope. "I must speak," she said; "we can finish that letter afterwards the letter does not greatly matter, after all.
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