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Wark, too, seemed uncomfortably aware of something unusual in her face, for she turned it away, and busied herself in smoothing down the near corner of the bath blanket. 'What kept you awake? Miss Levering asked. 'Well, I suppose I'd better tell you while the other people aren't round. I want a day or two to go into the country.
The reply to that was a laugh and a concerted 'rush' that all but carried the girl and her companions off their feet. To Henderson's petrifaction, the door of the brougham was hastily opened and then slammed to, leaving Miss Levering in the road, saying to him over her shoulder 'Wait just round the corner, unless I call.
After Sir Hervey Levering lost his wife, Wark became in time housekeeper and general factotum to the family. This arrangement held without a break until, as before hinted, Miss Vida, full of the hopeful idealism of early youth, had tried and ignominiously failed in her attempt to teach the woman gentler manners.
'Isn't she delightfully direct! whispered Miss Levering, eager to cull some modest flower of praise. 'Oh, direct enough! His tone so little satisfied the half-maternal pride of the other woman that she was almost prepared for the slighting accent in which he presently asked, 'Is this the sort of thing that's supposed to convert people to a great constitutional change?
Bob's wrangler was also with us, and he and Levering quarreled all the way in about the respective merits of each one's remuda. A match was arranged between the two horses which they were riding, and on reaching a straight piece of road, my man won it and also considerable money. But no matter how much we differed among ourselves, when the interests of our employer were at stake, we were a unit.
Somebody had helped her choose effectively, and things very cunningly adaptive to herself. The last selection for the first part of her reading to-night was Mrs. Browning's "Court Lady." "Wear your fawn-colored silk when you read this," Virginia Levering had counseled. Her self-consciousness made the first lines telling.
Of course, the people stopped and stared and laughed. But she, instead of getting shy, and pretending she hadn't anything to do with me, she took the chalk and wrote, "Votes for Women!" all over the pavement of Finsbury Circus. Ernestine paused a moment that Miss Levering might applaud the new 'helper. 'I thought that a very good sign in such a respectable person.
'Oh, helping you, is she? said Farnborough with absent eyes; and then suddenly 'all there, 'Lady John, I've come to ask you to help me. 'With Miss Levering? said Hermione Heriot's aunt. 'I can't do it. 'No, no all that's no good. She only laughs. 'Oh, breathed the lady, relieved, 'she looks upon you as a boy. 'Such nonsense, he burst out suddenly.
Eugene Levering with the object of promoting the purposes of the Young Men's Christian Association. The first lecturer on this foundation was Rev. Dr. Broadus, of Louisville, Ky. A few of those who held the position of lecturers made Baltimore their home for such prolonged periods that they could not properly be called non-resident. The following list contains the principal appointments.
"It's got to have a thing for levering stones out of horses' hoofs," said Huggo, brushing aside a knife offered by the assistant and rummaging a little roughly. Rosalie said, "Darling, I can't think what you can want such a thing for." The lady beside her caught her eye and laughed. "That's just what I'm asking my small man," she said.
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