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Dundas had also taken it in his arms and called it "Little Miss Dundas" and "My own little Fina" tenderly when, the servants had been spoken to prettily and the bustle had somewhat subsided, Mrs. Dundas looked round for something missing. "And where is dear Leam?" she asked with her gracious air and sweet smile. It was very nice of her to be the first to miss the girl.
But Edgar, not wishing to go too far in the way of provocation, nor to burn his boats behind him before he had decided on his settlement, skated off to Adelaide so soon as he had deposited Leam, and by a few judicious praises and well-administered tendernesses of voice and look succeeded in bringing her back to her normal condition of quiescent resolve and satisfaction.
They were very small and insignificant little lessons, for Leam had a fellow-feeling for the troubles of ignorance, and laid but a light hand on the frothy mind inside that curly head. When they were finished the little one said coaxingly, "Now play with me, Leam! You never play with me." "What can I do, Fina?" poor Leam replied.
"Poor, dear Adelaide!" he said when he returned to the drawing-room, "how nice she is! but how tart she was about this Leam Dundas of yours! Looks like jealousy; and very likely is. All you women are so horribly jealous." "Not all of us," said Maria hastily. "And I do not think that Adelaide is," said Josephine.
Already it was past two o'clock, but Leam, irresolute what to do, sat in the garden under the shadow of the cut-leaved hornbeam, from the branches of which Pepita used to swing in her hammock, smoking cigarettes and striking her zambomba. One part of her longed to go, the other held her back. The one was the strength of love, the other its humiliation.
But when Leam thoroughly understood the master's mood, and thus made it clear to herself that the evening's formality was simply a continuance of the morning's avoidance, after looking at him once with one of those profound looks of hers which made him almost beside himself, she set her head straight, turned her eyes to the floor, and lapsed into a silence as unbroken as his own.
"Perhaps it is as well that the laws of politeness keep one's mouth shut at times, and that we do not say what we feel." "It would be better," insisted Leam. "I wonder if you would say so were I to tell you what I thought of you now?" Adelaide replied, measuring her scornfully with her eyes. "Why should you not? What have I done to be ashamed of?" Leam asked.
Her excess chilled Leam of course, but she held to her promise; and Josephine augured all manner of happy eventualities from the fact that her future step-daughter had yielded so sweetly on the first difference of desire between them, and had let herself be kissed with becoming patience.
Had she seen Adelaide Birkett sitting before her glass, her face covered in her hands and shedding hot tears like rain had she seen Leam standing by her open window, letting the cool night-air blow upon her, too feverish and disturbed to rest she would not have said that every one had been happy at the ball given in honor of Josephine's marriage.
"Will you say the same to me, Leam?" asked her father with an attempt at jocularity, advancing toward her. "Yes," said Leam gravely, drawing back a step. "Tell me, Mrs, Birkett, what can be done with such an impracticable creature?" cried Mr. Dundas. "She will come right: in time, dear husband," said the late marquise sweetly; and Mrs.
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