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Lisette's failure to arrive considerably disturbed him. He hoped that nothing had happened to her. Time after time, he walked to the window and looked out eagerly for her to cross the courtyard. In those rooms he sometimes lived for weeks in safe obscurity, his neighbours regarding him as a man of the greatest integrity, though a trifle eccentric in his habits.
"Guess you wouldn't care to part with that mare?" "No," said Ranald, shortly; but as he spoke his heart sank within him. "Ought to fetch a fairly good figure," continued Yankee, meditatively. "Le's see. She's from La Roque's Lisette, ain't she? Ought to have some speed." He untied Lisette's halter. "Take her down in the yard yonder," he said to Ranald.
"Now the man," suggested the chief softly. "A young man about Lisette's age, I should say twenty-seven to thirty anyway. Tallish. Dark hair, moustache, eyes, and complexion. Good-looking in a foreign way. I had no doubt he was her brother he looked French, though he spoke English quite well and without accent. Very respectably dressed in dark clothes and overcoat.
In my confused state, I was unable to react in any way; I was attacked by a drunken Russian soldier, who thrust his bayonet into my left arm, and then, aiming another blow at me, lost his balance and missing his mark, he slashed Lisette's haunch.
Mother, Janet said you would forgive me, and I thought if you were ever so angry, it would be true, and that would be nicer than Lisette, and, indeed, it was not so much my doing as Lisette's." Whatever "it" was, Mother Carey had no hesitation in replying that she had no doubt it was Lisette's fault. "You see," continued Elvira, "I never meant anything but to plague Allen a little at first.
Both the poor girls looked constrained and unhappy, and Miss Ogilvie wondered whether "Cousin Lisette's" evident intentions of becoming a fixture would be for their good or the reverse. "Are you better, my dear?" asked she, affectionately. "Yes, it was only the room," said Elvira.
Violet went on her way in the darkness, her heart beating rapidly with fear lest she should encounter some rude fisherman or peasant who would stop and question her. She was foot-sore and weary long before she came in sight of the village, for a mile was a long distance to her unaccustomed muscles, while Lisette's heavy shoes hurt her tender feet sorely.
Lisette's mother was a fierce and strong old Brabantoise who exacted heavy reckoning with her daughter for every single plum and peach that she sent out of her dark sweet-smelling fruit shop to be sunned in the streets, and under the students' love-glances. So the girl took heed, and left Bébée alone. "What should I want her to come with us for?" she reasoned with herself.
The four young people were out by themselves, and though quite capable of finding their way about alone, Lisette's French notions were a trifle shocked at the unchaperoned crowd. But Patty and Elise were so glad to see their friends again that they gave little thought to conventions, and fell to chattering with all their might.
With the last it may be just as it will I have heard a clever young man declare that it would operate upon him like salt on fire however, this is certain, that the first part of Aunt Lisette's maxim is correct, since my stupidity in Ernst's presence did not injure me at all in his opinion, and when he was kind and gentle, how inexpressibly agreeable he was!
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