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At the same instant, that maidenly bashfulness, which the energy of Edith's feelings had till then triumphed over, became conqueror in its turn, and she hastened from the apartment, extinguishing her lamp as she went, and leaving, in Sir Kenneth's thoughts, both mental and natural gloom behind her.
Af-ter an instant's pause, she said: "I don't think it's fair, Ken, for you to quiz me like that. And, anyway, I can't tell. In some ways, I like you a heap better than Phil Van Reypen, and then in other ways " "You like him a heap better than me!" Kenneth's tone was accusing, and Patty resented it. "Yes, I do!" she said, honestly.
Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on. When Rilla walked slowly back to the house Susan was still sitting by the veranda table and Susan was sniffing suspiciously. "I have been thinking, Rilla dear, of the old days in the House of Dreams, when Kenneth's mother and father were courting and Jem was a little baby and you were not born or thought of.
"Well, Emily is queer, Aunt Jo. But in her place I wouldn't necessarily be queer." "At the same time, considering her brother Kenneth's rather checkered career, and the fact that her big sister neglects and ignores her, and that her health is really very delicate, I don't consider Emily a happy choice for your argument, Sue." "Well, there's Peggy Brock. She's a perfect beauty "
To Sir Kenneth's eyes the approaching crisis had a different aspect, and when Adonbec said to him, "Thou must tarry close by my side," he answered solemnly in the negative. "Yonder," he said, "are my comrades in arms the men in whose society I have vowed to fight or fall. On their banner gleams the sign of our most blessed redemption I cannot fly from the Cross in company with the Crescent."
All the salaries of officials were lowered among them Kenneth's, although the directors assured him that it would be again raised as soon as the Institution recovered from the shock of this loss. Meanwhile, however, the secretary was compelled to postpone his marriage indefinitely.
If, as you say, your object is merely to set matters straight so that your daughter and Mr. Gwynne may be free to marry, being in no sense related either by blood or by law, such as would have been the case if you had married Kenneth's father, why, it seems to me you can avoid a great deal of unpleasant notoriety by er leaving out that particular admission." "No," she said firmly.
The others laughed at both plotter and objector, for it sounded so visionary. But once Eleanor had the idea in her mind she mulled it over and over until it really appeared feasible to her. The others talked of the mine, of Kenneth's father and the invention for cutting jewels, of everything that concerned any interest in their lives, while Eleanor sat and planned her new idea.
About four years ago he married the beauty over whom all Paris was going raving mad. She was the prima donna of the Italian opera in Paris. But the marriage was not pleasing to the earl, who is severely afflicted with the prejudices of his rank. He immediately disowned his son, the Honorable Kenneth, never speaking to him again during his, Kenneth's, life.
Colbrith's annual inspection tour over the Pacific Southwestern had been extended to cover the new line at Kenneth's suggestion a suggestion arising out of purely reformatory motives.
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