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Of course there will be a row, and probably you and Lettice will be punished, but no one else need ever hear anything more about it." "Oh, but I couldn't!" cried Anna. She was so intensely relieved to find that, as yet, she was not suspected, that much of her courage and boldness came back.
She and Raymond had just played a trick upon unsuspecting Miss Briggs with magnificent success. She was breathless with delight, could hardly speak for bursts of laughter, and danced up and down the room, looking so gay and blithe and like the Lettice of old, that her father wont off to his study with a heartfelt sigh of relief. Hilary was right. The child was happy enough.
Then she leaned against the trunk of an old apple-tree, and would not come any further. "Are you ill?" said Lettice, gently. Again the half-heard "No," but this time accompanied by a sob. "Then why are you out at this time, and with your poor little baby, too? Have you walked far to-day?" "From Thorley." "Do you live at Thorley?" "Not now." "Where do you come from?" "London."
Where the fields gave upon the road the buggy dropped sharply; Lettice cried out uncontrollably. He cursed Mrs. Caley savagely under his breath, "Can't you drive," he asked; "can't you?" The ascent to the crown of the ridge was rough, but beyond, winding down to the Greenstream valley, it was worse.
To anticipate a little I may add, as certain, that he, who began with never attending at all, was known to drop in once or twice; and ended by scolding Lettice heartily in a morning if there was any danger of her not having bound up his arm in time for him to be present.
You might have been sure of a welcome!" She laid her hand on the head which was bowed down upon the wall, and which shook with the poor girl's sobs. Her bonnet had fallen off, and hung on her back; and Lettice noticed that the long hair of which the girl used to be so proud was gone. "I did not come to the village till it was dark," Milly said, as soon as she could speak.
"Has Lettice been naughty?" she inquired. "Has Mr Newcome been naughty? Will she never wear her pretty dresses? Shall I never wear my dress? What shall we do with all the presents? Shall we have to send back the cake?" "Oh, Mouse, be quiet, for pity's sake!" cried Hilary in desperation. "If you ask any more questions you must go to bed.
"Everything is ready. We shall go to Nottingham; all our plans are laid ready for the wedding." "I cannot refuse thee, John," whispered Dorothy, as she dried her tears, "but I cannot consent not yet, at least. Lettice shall bring thee word." "So be it, then," he said. "Kiss me, Doll, it may be for the last time; an you decide to stay, I shall go to the wars again."
Apparently he did not quite know why he came, or at any rate he did not find it easy to say. Lettice spoke again in order to relieve his embarrassment, which she did not understand. "It is so strange that I should have one of his books in my hand again. You can imagine what a grief it was to him when he had to let them go." "I am so glad to have restored to you something that was your father's.
Her earnestness charmed while it half-repelled him. And her refinement, her delicacy of feeling, her high standard of morality, perpetually astonished him. He remembered that he had heard his sister Lettice talk as Nan sometimes talked. With Lettice he had pooh-poohed her exalted ideas and thought them womanish; in Nan, he was inclined to call them beautiful.
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