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He stopped, and added, after a moment's mortifying reflection, "I've been brought up in the woods, Miss Carr, and I suppose I have followed my feelings, instead of the etiquette of society." Christie was too relieved at the rehabilitation of Jessie's truthfulness to notice the full significance of his speech. "Good-by," he said again, holding out his hand. "Good-by!"
She said, 'I s'pose he's a great fella' for the girls, he always was in Toronto, an' Jessie's lookin' scairt, I do declare! Well, she said he'd better take care 'cause he was engaged to a high-toned lady in Toronto, engaged to be married, mind you! It's true, too, because Maria knows.
To add to his annoyance Jessie began to show signs of returning consciousness. "This will never do at this crisis of affairs," he cried to himself. He had come well equipped for the emergency, and drawing a small vial from an inner pocket, he dashed half of its contents over the shawl which enveloped the girl's head. Its pungent odors soon quieted Jessie's struggles.
As George fitted his key in the lock and swung wide the door, a shrill scream from above made their blood curdle. Shriek upon shriek followed, as Katie came bounding down the stairs, almost knocking backward the two who ran past her to Jessie's room. White and lifeless they found her, prostrate, her arm still bound with the handkerchief.
I rang the bell and the door sprang open; without meeting any one I walked up to the first-floor flat, the door of which stood open, and went from room to room till I reached Jessie's boudoir, where I placed my letter in her work-basket and returned the way I had come. I received no reply, and set out upon my return journey as soon as the term of rest granted me had expired.
He grinned as he realized that the room was empty, and it was a grin of amusement. Some thought in his mind gave him satisfaction, in spite of the fact that there was no one to greet him. The grin passed and left him serious. Even his excitement had abated. He had remembered Jessie's scream at the scene she must have witnessed. He remembered that he had left her fainting.
"I do hope you will find them happy; and if so, perhaps you will kindly let me know; and and I wonder whether Jessie's child is like her? It is a boy; somehow or other I would rather it had been a girl." "I will write you full particulars. But why not come with me?" "No, I don't think I could do that, just at present.
Jessie's promised to do us some water-colours she's been taking lessons lately, you know but we shall want one or two prints for the dining-room, shan't we? You can pick them up second-hand very cheap. 'Oh yes, yes; anything you please, George!... No, no; I'm not cross, I'm only tired, especially of talking about the house. It is quite finished, you know, so what is there to discuss?
To have been one of the happy creatures who were to take part in it, to dance on the green in a dainty costume to the music of a full band, to see and do and enjoy all the delights of those two enchanting evenings, would have filled Jessie's cup to overflowing.
"It's nothing more than you had to expect. And, besides, what is Leon Dexter to you now? Only as another man?" Jessie arose without speaking, and kissing her aunt in token of love, passed quickly from the room. "Dear! dear! what a strange child it is!" said Aunt Loring, as she wiped off a tear which had fallen from Jessie's eyes upon her cheek.
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