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His arm fell to his side, and he turned away to hide his altered look. "I'll fight for this boy," he said. "I'll fight the whole world for him." "You looked," suggested Lilla gently, "as if you were going to fight me, too." "You? No, you are my ally. Or, if you please, I am yours; for neither of us can do anything without you."
Fallows has really done wonders, hasn't he?" "Wonders," Lilla echoed with a smile. In the hall, as she was leaving, Fanny Brassfield said to Lilla: "By the way, Anna Zanidov is in town. She was asking after you." Without moving, Lilla murmured slowly: "Ah, she wants to tell my fortune again, perhaps?" "She stopped doing that. It got too uncanny.
"Still I believe you will find out soon that he loves your Lilla. At present he says nothing he fears to offend you and alarm her; but his eyes speak so do hers. You are a good woman, a good mother; watch them both, you will soon tell whether love is between them or no. And see," here I handed her a sealed envelope, "in this you will find notes to the amount of four thousand francs."
"All right, Mas'r Harry," he said; "they're in the dark now; but I think Miss Lilla was disappointed because you didn't go. I'll keep watch if you'd like to go." If I'd like to go! I fought down the desire, though, just as a distant echoing murmur, ever increasing, fell upon our ears, and we knew that the searchers were on their way back.
Poor Lady Helen had to encounter the storm of upbraiding from her daughter, and the tears and sobs of the governess, at the ill-treatment she received. In vain Lady Helen accepted her protestations that she had done her duty; that she was sure all that could be done for Miss Lilla had been done.
"Well," said Brantome, in a tone of stifled fury, glaring at Lilla with his eyes of an old conquered Viking, "have you seen these pigmies brandishing their fists at thunderbolts?" Disqualified long ago from walking, to-day David Verne could hardly raise his hands to lay them limply upon the keyboard of a piano. His mind had suffered as sad a deterioration as his body.
He had got on so well with the mamma, who was this old maid, who appeared so objectionably on the alert? "Well, I am sure," said Mrs. Leigh, "some girls here are that pert and forward, I can't bear it myself; and yet the gentlemen all encourage it, and think it real smart. Lilla Tremaine, you know, Aunt Jane." "Ah!" said Bertie, shaking his head, "a very unsteady young person."
His full eyelids remained lowered, as if he were considering his whole unfortunate destiny; and a sort of loneliness, produced no doubt by his strangeness in this room, hovered round his shapely head that was covered with straight, black locks. Lilla felt a twinge of compunction, as she reflected: "Who in this town except myself would ever take Arabic lessons! Poor young caliph!
Something familiar in her look a sort of reflection of her mother's likeness made me sure of her identity. I smiled. "Ah! you are Lilla Monti?" She blushed again. "Si, signor. I am Lilla." I let my eyes dwell on her searchingly and almost sadly.
As if she had come to a harp, and had made all its strings vibrate just for the pleasure of hearing their quality, and then had gone on content " Lilla rose, drew her cloak around her, and departed with an appalling sensation of pity and resentment.
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