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"Yes, but that is not all. She has treated me so scornfully, while Lancy ." He broke off abruptly, with a gesture that finished the sentence for him. "But, Hugh, think a minute! Lancy's tastes are similar to her own. How can she help showing the preference, when their very music seems to draw them together?
Presently they came up with Fred Beverly and May Deblois, as they were stepping briskly along the sidewalk, who started in surprise as the sleigh drove up and they recognized the occupants. "Will you have a drive?" was Lancy's greeting. "Most willingly," replied Fred, laughing. "Really, this is kind of you, Gurney, to give your friends a drive on the first snow."
The only thing that saved me was Lancy's hand, cool, firm and strong. "'Steady! Steady! he kept saying. I heard him through the shooting, burning pains, and it saved my reason. At last it didn't seem as if I could take another step. "'Let go! I cried, trying to get my hand loose; but he dragged me on. "'In a minute, said he; and all at once I felt the earth under my feet.
Hugh could not understand the meaning of Dexie's flushed face, even though he stepped forward and read the inscription over Lancy's shoulder, for he had never learned just how Dexie had escaped from the vessel, but supposed that Lancy had in some way brought it about. "One good turn deserves another, and gets it this time," said Lancy, with a meaning smile.
Petersburg or Paris; where his so-called bachelor establishment was cared for by a coarse, gray-haired housekeeper who, the initiated said, was De Lancy's South African wife, with a rooted objection to being a lady or "moving in social circles"; whose pleasure lay in managing this big household under De Lancy's guidance.
Think a minute, Dexie, before you say what will rob me of all hope!" and he bent his head in his eagerness to read her answer in her truthful face. "If papa told you I was engaged to Mr. Traverse, he told you the truth," Dexie said, in a low tone. "But do you love him, Dexie? Are you sure your heart is given with your hand? I was right in Lancy's case, you know."
She no longer sought to evade him, and her soft, rippling laughter, mingling with the low tones of Lancy's voice, was again heard as they lingered over the piano together. This made Hugh mad with jealousy, and the fact became so plain to Dexie that her manner was even more gracious to Lancy when Hugh was by to observe it.
Our folks all like you and would have no objections, for I heard mamma tell Cora that she was pleased at Lancy's choice, and thought you would get on very well together." "Nonsense! Elsie; you must have misunderstood what they were talking about.
I have watched her face, and I know that unless quiet measures are used she will resist to the last. My boy, I am quite as anxious as you are about it, so do not look so wild. Listen to my plan." Lancy's excitement cooled down as he listened to his mother's advice, and he promised to do his part if sufficient self-control were granted him.
She felt completely unnerved; so much had happened during the last twenty-four hours that had tried her strength and courage, that Lancy's declaration had filled up the measure of her strength.
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