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Here is the package only waiting for your approval to be tied," and she led the way to the library. Bradford touched the articles with his big fingers, as lovingly as if he were smoothing his mother's hair, or her hand. "They are exactly right," he said heartily, turning and grasping Miss Lavinia's hand, as he looked straight into her eyes with an expression of mingled gratitude and satisfaction.
I shall have to let down Lavinia's gowns full two inches this summer. Lucky I put tucks in them all last year. Mrs. Carruthers wanted me to finish them off with a frill; lucky I didn't, it would have been up to her ears this summer. As for the boys, I can take them in turn, last year's clothes for the next boy all the way down, and Cyrus can have his father's.
The story, on this occasion, being Miss Lavinia's story, the polite contradictions necessary to its successful progress were naturally transferred from the sister to the brother, and became contradictions on Sir Joseph's side. "No," said Miss Lavinia, gently, "if you will have it, Joseph jam." "I beg your pardon," persisted Sir Joseph; "marmalade." "What does it matter, brother?"
Before Serena could frame a reply to this back-handed compliment the unconscious B. Phelps removed the greater part of its sting by observing: "That butler of yours looks as if he had been here a thousand. I felt as if George the First was opening the door for me. He's a star, all right. Did he come with the place?" Mrs. Dott explained that Hapgood was one of Aunt Lavinia's old servants.
Miss Lavinia's face assumed a dignified expression of reproof, and she gazed at the young man in silence. This look, however, was far from daunting him, and he returned it with the most fascinating smile. "The fact is, Miss Lavinia," he added, "Redbud wants somebody to talk to up there.
"I see exactly, madame," she assured Anna; and with her deft dry hands she took down Lavinia's laboriously arranged hair. She drew it back from the brow apparently as simply as before, twisted it into a low knot slightly eccentric in shape, and recut a bang.
Ascanius, the son of Æneas, was not yet old enough to rule; the government, however, remained unassailed for him till he reached the age of maturity. In the interim, under the regency of a woman so great was Lavinia's capacity the Latin state and the boy's kingdom, inherited from his father and grandfather, was secured for him.
"No, indeed," cried Lavinia, indignantly. "I don't want ever to see him again." "Well, your mother does," returned Hannah with an odd kind of laugh. "Whatever for?" "I'll let you have the story d'rectly, but you tell me your tale first." By this time they were in the shop and Hannah caught sight of Lavinia's white, drawn face and her tear-swollen eyes. "You poor baby. What's your fresh troubles?"
The pale glow of the fire showed her a dark figure crouching in the opposite door-way. The click of a pistol caught her ear, but dodging quickly, the heroic girl cried sternly from the shelter of Lavinia's bed-curtain, 'Come out, or I'll fire! 'Mio Dio! is it only you? answered a familiar voice, as Amanda, shrouded in a waterproof, sprang up and lit a match.
But after all it is common enough to find the first half of such a friendship, it is the unit that is difficult; and I had then had no opportunity of seeing the two together. We went upstairs together, and lingered by the fire in Miss Lavinia's sitting room before going to make ready for dinner. The thaw of the morning was again locked by ice, and it was quite a nippy night for the season.
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