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Nothing, of course, could be easier nothing. Merely to think of it, for a girl of Laura's temperament, was already bit by bit to incline to it. She began to turn it over, to taste the adventure of it to talk very fast to Fricka, under her breath, with little gusts of laughter. And no doubt there was something mollifying in the boy's humble expressions.
After all, Laura's attitude was more pleasant to the subconscious vanity that was in his nature, and in this respect he probably differed but little from most of his fellows. "You won't be very long away?" she said. Nasmyth reassured her upon this point, and floundered down to the beach, where he carefully laid out to dry the little block of sulphur matches that he carried.
His social life appeared to him now, as he walked by Laura's side, to have been devoid of sincerity as of intelligence, and he recalled with disgust the exquisite empty voice of Madame Alta, her lyric sensuality, and the grossness of her affairs with her many lovers. Was it the after taste of bitterness in his "wine and honey" which caused it to turn suddenly nauseous in his remembrance?
Edmonstone for not having brought Charlotte, reproaching her with hardness of heart of which they had never believed her capable Lady Eveleen, in especial, talking with that exaggeration of her ordinary manner which her dread of Captain Morville made her assume. Little he recked of her; he was absorbed in observing how far Laura's conduct coincided with Charles's hints.
He is oddly interested in her dress and all her belongings, and her delight is exquisite to witness. Life is but thought, so think I will, That youth and I are housemates still. Violet had imagined the place when Laura's reception was given, but this sight far exceeds her wildest dreams.
"No," Violet says, with pretty peremptoriness. "Gertrude is going to be young to-night. Oh, what will you wear?" "There is nothing but black silk," answers Gertrude, "and that never was especially becoming, as I can indulge in no accessories. But Laura's dress is perfection. The palest, loveliest pink you can imagine, and no end of lace. Luckily, Mr. Delancy has not his fortune to make."
'I shall never forget the tufts of lavender round the kitchen garden at Stylehurst. Philip smiled. Charlotte proceeded, and Charles saw Laura's colour deepening as she bent over her work. "Lavender steadfastness Strafford Cordelia in 'King Lear' the late war." How funny! cried Charlotte. 'For hear the next: "Honeysuckle steadfastness Lord Strafford Cordelia the present time."
It was his hand which placed this card in the porthole.... Listen! What's that?" There was a scream from the deck. They all recognised Laura's voice. Harris was out of the stateroom first but they were all on deck within ten seconds. Laura was standing with one hand clasping the rail, her hand fiercely outstretched towards the lower part of the promenade deck.
An' children WILL grow up an' get big ... an' change their feathers." She spoke absently, drawing her metaphor from a brood of chickens which had strayed across the road, and was now trying to mount the wooden verandah "Shooh! Get away with you!" "I know that. But Laura The other children have never given me a moment's worry. But Laura's different. I seem to get less and less able to manage her.
"You know Dick Lindley couldn't see anybody but Cora to save his life, and I don't suppose there's a girl on earth fool enough to dress up for that Wade Trum " "Hedrick!" Laura's voice rang with a warning which he remembered to have heard upon a few previous occasions when she had easily proved herself physically stronger than he. "Go and tell mother I'm coming," she said.
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