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He asked me to marry him." The avowal was not made with the conventional confusion and trembling. Mrs. Levice was startled by the dead calm of her manner. "You say that as if it were a daily occurrence for a man like Louis Arnold to offer you his hand and name." "I hope not." "But you do. I confess I think you are not one tenth as excited as I am. Why didn't you tell me before?
"I am a sort of surprise-party," he answered, swinging Ethel to the ground and watching her scamper off to the hotel; "and what is more," he continued, turning to him, "I have not brought a hamper, which makes one of me." "You calculate without your host," responded Levice; "this is a veritable land of milk and honey. Come up and listen to my wife rhapsodize."
"I think I could manage it," said Louis, "if you would see about the other adjustment while I am gone." "No, you could not," when Levice said "no," it seldom meant an ultimate "yes." "Besides, the trip will do me good." "I shall go with you," put in Mrs. Levice, decidedly. "No, dear; you could not stand the cold in New York, and I could not be bothered with a woman's grip-sack."
What is called fate is but the outcome of the spinning of other individuals twisted into the woof of our own making; so no life should be judged as a unit. Ruth Levice was not alone in the world; she was neither recluse nor a genius, but a girl with many loving friends and a genial home-life. Having resolved to bear to the world an unchanged front, she outwardly did as she had always done.
I do not think it will be necessary for me to call for several days now; probably not before Friday." "And to-day is Tuesday! Am I to see no one till then?" "No one but those you have seen. Pray do not complain, Mrs. Levice," he continued rather sternly. "You are a very fortunate invalid; illness with you is cushioned in every conceivable corner.
Levice was dozing and talking in snatches to the Tyrrells, who were likewise resting on the Levices' veranda. All Nature was drowsy, as Ruth wandered off with the little one, who chattered on as was her wont. "Me and you's yunnin' away," she chatted; "we's goin' to a fowest, and by and by two 'ittle birdies will cover us up wid leaves. My! Won't my mamma be sorry?
She very quickly felt a sort of family pride in his cool, quizzical manner and caustic repartee, that was wholly distinct from the more girlish admiration of his distinguished person. He and Ruth were great friends in a quiet, unspoken way. They were sitting together alone in the library on the evening of his return. Mrs. Levice had fallen asleep, and her husband was sitting with her.
For a moment they were unseen; but when Ruth, who was the first to feel their presence, started from Kemp as if she had committed a crime, Arnold came forward entirely at his ease. Kemp met Mrs. Levice with outstretched hands and smiling eyes. "Good-evening, Mother," he said; "we had just been speaking of you." Mrs.
After that it was enough to tell her mother that she was going to see Bob. Mrs. Levice had heard the doctor speak of him to Ruth; and any little charity that came in her way she was only too happy to forward. Bob's plain, ungarnished room soon began to show signs of beauty under Ruth's deft fingers.
"Going in for philanthropy, Miss Levice?" "No; going out for it, thank you;" and she put her hand into his outstretched one. She watched him step into his carriage; he turned and raised his hat again, a trifling circumstance that Ruth dwelt upon with pleasure; a second glance always presupposes an interested first.
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