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And Lilla, despite his costume and his errand, divined in him a certain subtle relationship to herself, received an impression of "aristocratic" feeling perhaps derived from a consciousness of superior birth and fortune. Parr need not have told her especially in so audible a stage whisper that the stranger had "seen better days." "You speak English?" she inquired.
Grahame, he stood by the side of Lilla; the consciousness that she had confessed her love, that he might have overheard it, was still paramount in her modest bosom, and she would have avoided him, but quickly was her design prevented.
Annie had no desire for a rival to present herself, which, had her sister appeared in public, would undoubtedly have been the case; Lilla gave promise of beauty, which, though not perhaps really so perfect as Annie's, would certainly have attracted fully as much notice.
Whereupon, remembering that she was beautiful, and that her beauty had a way of troubling men, Lilla felt her own timidity transmuted into joy. "Are your jungles better than this?" she asked. "The charm of my jungles overlies a welter of stupid cruelty and deadly waste. Would it surprise you to know that I should like to see all the world as nobly ordered as this landscape?"
Cecil was incapable of detraction, or envy at another's greater success; but in the face of Bertie's abduction of Lilla before her eyes, she did not feel particularly in charity with any daughter of Canada.
Suddenly in the midst of a piercing blare of brass there was a moment of chaos; then the theme, as if soaring free, lost itself in extraordinary altitudes, borne up by a whirl of violin notes. A crash of cymbals ended everything. When she roused herself at last, Lilla perceived that the concert hall was empty except for the ushers who were turning up the seats.
And Lilla heard the sigh: "Don't go. Don't smile at my intuition " Later, after seeming to listen intently, Aunt Althea cried: "What are they calling? All massacred at Adowa!" She uttered a moan, "I knew it!" To the doctor's surprise she lived through the following day. By evening everybody had become hopeful of her recovery.
"It is all your promises fulfilled," he said, as he went out of the room without looking back. But it was Lilla whose arm he touched in passing. David Verne sat gazing before him, his sunken eyes shining in his face of a sick, young Apollo in bronze. But soon, turning his eyes toward Lilla: "All you!"
"What has happened?" said my uncle frowning; for he did not seem to like Garcia's allusion. Lilla spoke in faint trembling tones: "I was resting after gathering those flowers, when a rustling overhead took my attention, and ah!
"Did you summon those two from this vasty deep, Lilla?" cried she. "But, I forgot; I don't think either of them sail under your flag." "My colours are too rakish and privateerish for Major Fane; and as for Jack, I am afraid he has the bad taste to prefer Bluebells to Lilies." "If you think him worth your acceptance," said Bluebell "I will make you a present of him."
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