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'I would to Heaven she were, is the quick reply. 'No, child, don't think of me as a lonely widower, this with a laugh that is hard and grating, 'I'm worse than that. 'Poor Paul, says Lippa gently, while her eyes fill with tears, and she lays her hand on his unoccupied one, the hard look quits his handsome face, and he sighs. 'Good little soul, he says possessing himself of it.
Mabel, thinking she is alluding to George, says hastily, 'There is no necessity whatever 'Ah! and Lippa clasps her hands together and looks eagerly at Mabel, 'then, then, ... there's no great likelihood of my going mad. Mabel looks at her. Is this then what she has been worrying about.
'I'm sure Philippa will say that it did her an immense amount of good, replies Paul, with a wink at Lippa, which makes her tremble in her shoes as to what may be coming next. It has been arranged that the whole of the party should go for a picnic to a spot about five miles off.
'A merry Christmas, he says. 'The same to you, replies Philippa. 'Are you going to walk home? he asks. 'No, we are going back in a hansom. Here Teddy interrupts with, 'Did you know I've got a sister, you'll come and see her, won't you? 'I shall be delighted, replies Dalrymple, looking at Lippa, who has turned her head away. 'May I come? he asks in a low voice.
The race was transplanted from Bologna in the century previous, when Obizzo the Third of Este, Marquess of Ferrara, married a lady belonging to it, whose Christian name was Lippa. Niccolò Ariosto, besides holding the same office as Boiardo had done, at Modena as well as at Reggio, was master of the household to his two successive patrons, the Dukes Borso and Ercole.
'What is the matter? asks he tenderly, his despair having vanished; the gentle tone of his voice makes her cry the more and so he does the thing that comes most naturally to him, without thinking of the consequences, for he puts his arm round her, and kisses her madly; and Lippa without resisting, leans her perturbed little head against his shoulder feeling unutterably happy.
'Who is going? asks Lippa wisely, 'not only the Boothlys 'I suppose the "not only," means that in that case you would not go, but rest assured lots of other people are going, the two Graham girls, little Tommy Grant, Mr Dalrymple, and Captain Harkness, says Mabel, 'but read the note yourself and decide Philippa's mind is soon made up.
'Mind, and Lippa rises and goes up to him, kneeling down at his side, 'I shan't mind anything now, Jimmy, she says. 'What does the "now" imply, asks he, 'that you did once mind, eh? 'Yes, I did, when you used to look so gravely at me, when we met in the street, I think my heart was nearly breaking, you know you tried to think I was a flirt, and
Paul rises and standing in front of her says 'As I said before, where is the harm? I have never called you anything else but Philippa, or Lippa; I could not address you as Miss Seaton, it does not suit you one bit you know; now let us make it a compact from henceforth, I call you Lippa, and you call me Paul. 'Very well, replies she.
'Better, thank you, she replies, she always makes a point of answering that foolish question, and invariably does so by saying 'Better' she has been better for so long that she must have reached a most perfect state of health by now. 'Really much better; I came here to congratulate you: Lippa, my dear, you cannot think how pleased I am, this accompanied by a kiss.
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