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Lavinia's husband cleared his throat sharply; he was clearly impatiently annoyed. "What foolishness!" he cried. "From the first, Lavinia has been scarcely conscious of his existence." Lavinia avoided her sister's mocking gaze, disturbed and angry. "Certainly Signore Mochales must be asked here," she declared. "I suppose it can't be avoided," Orsi muttered.
Mike made the older children sit close together facing the fire, while he took the dry coats of Don, Lavinia and Dot, and spread them over the backs of the five, then he hung the wet coats upon a sapling near the heat to dry. In half an hour a shout came from the shore and two more sledges were emptied of logs and waiting for the children to go back.
Later, when he asked for Lavinia, he was told that she had gone to Naples; and when the boat returned, Nelli a military figure, with hair and mustache like yellowish white silk assisted her to the wall. She was closely veiled against the sparkling flood of light and bay, and hurried directly to her room.
Lavinia confined herself to a choice collection of bottles and pill-boxes, fur boots, a grey cloud, and several French novels, the solace of wakeful nights. A scarlet army blanket, with U. S. in big black letters on it, enveloped her travelling medicine-chest, and lent a cheerful air to the sombre spinster, whose black attire and hoarse voice made the sobriquet of Raven most appropriate.
Didama Rogers and Lavinia Pepper were everywhere and ready to agree with whichever side seemed likely to win. Lavinia was so deeply interested that she forgot to catechise Abishai further about his untimely reference to Peters's grove. And Kyan, puzzled but thankful, kept silence. It was by no means a one-sided struggle.
Its edge struck his head. He dodged aside. Then he sat staring, the full light from within the room showing him to its occupant as plain as day. "Um!" commented Miss Lavinia, simply. "Some one was there. And you, Andy Wildwood!" Andy was taken aback. His aunt was not particularly startled. She rather looked stern and suspicious.
She was not blind to the fact that he was a fop and not blessed with too much brain. She had seen many of his sort before and did not trust them. But Dorrimore struck her as more sincere than the rest. Besides, he was very good looking. Lavinia couldn't help having admirers. Nature should not have endowed her with such alluring, innocent looking eyes, with so sweet a mouth.
Five minutes afterwards, Verty might have been seen taking his way back sadly, on his little animal, toward the hills, while Redbud was undergoing that most disagreeable of all ceremonies, a "lecture," which lecture was delivered by Miss Lavinia, in her own private apartment, with a solemnity, which caused Redbud to class herself with the greatest criminals which the world had ever produced.
Her head-gear was a perpetual puzzle to the observing Lavinia, who could never discover whether it was a cap, a bonnet, or a natural production, for it was never off. Madame walked out in it, wore it all day, and very likely slept in it.
It was his aunt, Miss Lavinia Talcott. Jim Tapp gave a great wriggle as Andy involuntarily let go his hold of the young rascal. His ferret-like eyes twinkled and followed the glance of Andy's own. Tapp was too keen a fellow not to observe that Andy was startled and unnerved by the unexpected appearance of some one on the scene.
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