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"The role of brother isn't always entirely satisfying," retorted Stuart under his breath. "You know well enough you've only to say the word and I " "Jimps dear" Georgiana's voice was very gentle now "remember we've left all that boy-and-girl sentimentalizing behind.
"I wish you'd leave it there. I don't fancy what you're going on to say." "Then I'll not say it. Come, Jimps, give me your hand on the old compact." "I will on exactly one condition." Stuart stood still and faced her in a certain secluded spot just where the snowy path was on the point of turning into a wider, well-used thoroughfare. "What is it? Make it a fair one."
And the only interesting thing on earth that can happen is that Jimps Stuart may come over and he probably won't, because he was over last evening and the evening before that, and he knows he can't be allowed to come all the time. He " It was at this point that the old brass knocker on the front door sounded and something happened.
You thought it must be because you cared for me, but it was the stirring of your first real feeling for any woman, only you didn't recognize it. That's the whole thing, Jimps, and you are not to reproach yourself, particularly now when " She faltered suddenly, and he drew a quick breath that was as if something stabbed him.
Jefferson Craig's traveling companion, with this cloak, fur-lined, all-enveloping, to slip on over the plain little suit which was not half warm enough for severe winter weather. "It's the last of my 'Semi-Annuals," she said to herself, "and the best. How dear of her! And oh, how good it is that Jimps is here! Now I have a family, a real family to see me married a father and a brother!"
Therefore I'm sorry, Jimps, since you are so strange as to care but I've made up my mind." "You'll excuse me if I don't come in to-night," he said, and turned away. She stood looking comprehendingly after him as he left her, then ran in and closed the door. The mood which held her now was so far from being black that it was rosy red.
She simply glows with a steady light." "Well, I like that!" "You like everything to-night. You remind me of a peach on fire." "Jimps!" Georgiana's soft laughter assailed his ear. "I believe we're both a bit crazy with this sudden leap into dissipation such dissipation! Just remember where we'll be to-morrow night." "I don't want to except that I'll be with you.
I didn't know you were such a clever thing at the game, though I might have guessed it." "If I weren't, I might take lessons of you," Georgiana gave back. "You have Jimps slightly delirious, I can see. Is he the one you wanted to enchant? I'm sure you've done it." "Isn't he splendid? He looks so much stronger and more interesting than half these boys I've known all my life.
Jimps is too wise to forbid your spending it to decorate both your lives, for he knows you couldn't stand real wear and tear, while a reasonable amount of country life will make you stronger. Go ahead, dear; hang English chintzes at the farmhouse windows, set up your baby grand piano in that nice, old living-room, and hang jolly hunting prints in the dining-room.
It was good, undeniably good, to have Jimps by her side again, and hear his voice in his old eagerly devoted tones in her ear. That he was really overjoyed at coming upon her in a free hour it was impossible to doubt. "My word! George, but you've kept me on short rations lately," he began accusingly. "One would think you had suddenly put me on a diet list.
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