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She was still in her hospital dress of lilac-coloured linen, and while she stood there touching the keys, playing a chord now, and then, Leila's heart felt hollow from compassion; she was so happy herself just now, and this child so very wretched! "Play to me," she said; "no don't; I'll play to you."
There I lived with the creatures of my dreams, and forgot for a while that I was only a Sub-Deb, and that Leila's last year's tennis clothes were being fixed over for me. But how true what dear Shakspeare says: dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain. Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. I loved my dreams, but alas, they were not enough.
Leila's black brows were drawn in a deep scowl. "And they are clever, too," she nodded with conviction. "That letter is the kind a man of Doctor Matthews' standing detests. It gives the whole affair the air of a school-girl quarrel. Very hard on your dignity, Miss Remson," she glanced sympathetically at the little manager. "Not only that.
For I saw the truth in a lightning-flash; and I knew, as I had not known when Dick perjured himself in Leila's music-room, that I had come to the place of ultimate understanding, for I realized that not a dead girl, but a living woman, had come between us. Not Bessie Lowe, but Leila Burton, lifted the sword at the gateway of my paradise. With the poignancy of a poisoned arrow reality came to me.
'Is he can he be the sort of man I would trust Nollie to? he would think. 'Oh, that I should have to hope like this that some good man would marry her my little Nollie, a child only the other day! In these sad, painful, lonely weeks he found a spot of something like refuge in Leila's sitting-room, and would go there often for half an hour when she was back from her hospital.
That, of course, was what Franklin Ide had felt and had meant her to feel. He had seen at once what the change in her daughter's situation would make in her view of her own. It was almost wondrously enough! as if Leila's folly had been the means of vindicating hers. Everything else for the moment faded for Mrs. Lidcote in the glow of her daughter's embrace.
No woman likes to be told she is nervous or hysterical and now it acted with the certainty of a charm. "I am not nervous it was so sudden. I was startled." She turned away with a quick movement of annoyance, releasing herself from Leila's arm. "Let's go home. Oh, my God!" she cried, as once again the cannon-roar shook the leaves on the upward slope before them. "It is the voice of war.
Also, he appeared to make his money go farther, or was luckier at his "card killings," because he seldom attempted to bully Leila, being apparently content with his allowance. Once or twice Plank saw him with an unusually attractive girl belonging to a world very far removed from Leila's.
If there is to be war secession, I shall stand by the flag, my country, and an unbroken union." The young face flushed a little, the mouth, which was of singular beauty, closed with a grip on the strong jaw. Then, to Leila's surprise, the Captain and John suddenly uncovered as music rang out from the quarters of the band. "Why do you do that, Uncle Jim?" "Don't you hear, Leila?
You girls have made us trouble from the start, and I predict that it will not be long before Hamilton will be too small to hold your crowd and mine. Your crowd will be the one to go; not the Sans. I am not afraid to tell you this, because there is nothing in this letter that you can get me on. "'Leslie Cairns." "That is so like Leslie Cairns." Leila's blue eyes flashed their profound contempt.
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