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Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts. Lotty simply flew along.
Then luncheon was served, and the young lady not only showed a noble appetite, but to Arnold's astonishment, confessed to an ardent love for bottled stout. "Most American ladies," he said impertinently, "only drink water, do they not?" Lotty perceived that she had made a mistake. "I only drink stout," she said, "when the doctor tells me. But I like it all the same."
Arbuthnot, left in the cold, will be upset and show it. Arbuthnot, on his arrival will find his wife in enigmatic tears. Inquiring into their cause, he will be met with an icy reserve. More trouble may then be expected, and in me they will seek and find their adviser. When Lotty said Mrs. Arbuthnot wanted her husband, she was wrong. What Mrs.
"'Oh yes, 'm, it's elegant! Only I was wishin' I could take it to Caddy and Tot, if you didn't mind. They never had frostin' in all their lives, and I did once. "Of course I put up a little basket of cake and oranges and figs, and while Lotty feasted, we talked.
If she had time she might perhaps be able to catch up the leaping Lotty, and perhaps be able to stop her before she committed herself to what she probably presently would be sorry for. Mellersh at San Salvatore? Mellersh, from whom Lotty had taken such pains so recently to escape? "I see him here," said Lotty, as if in answer to her thoughts.
But in a moment Ida had her arms around the distraught woman, pressing the dazed head against her breast. Lotty began to utter incoherent self-reproaches, unintelligible to her little comforter; her voice had become the merest whisper; she seemed to have quite exhausted herself. Just now there came a knock at the door, and Ida was relieved to see Mrs. Ledward, whose help she begged.
"Your husband," said Lotty, swinging her feet, "might be here quite soon, perhaps to-morrow evening if he starts at once, and there'll be a glorious final few days before we all go home refreshed for life. I don't believe any of us will ever be the same again and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Caroline doesn't end by getting fond of the young man Briggs. It's in the air.
I could never trust anyone else as I do you." "I am getting to manage them," Meg said proudly; "but just to-day I must tell you it was rather horrid we came face to face with the Trents in the Baby's Walk. Mrs. Trent and Lotty, the second girl, the big, handsome one and he evidently knows them...." "Who evidently knows them?" "Captain Middleton, silly! But you can imagine how they glared at me.
Don't you wish I was a boy, mother?" "Yes, I do, I often do!" exclaimed Lotty. "Boys aren't such a trouble, and they can go out and shift for themselves." "Oh, but I won't be a trouble to you," exclaimed Ida. "When I'm old enough to leave school " She interrupted herself, for the moment she had actually forgotten the misfortune which had come upon her.
"Now we shall be completely happy!" cried the enthusiastic Lotty. But nothing seemed less certain to Rose, and her expression became more and more the expression of one who has something on her mind. Mr. Wilkins, wanting to find out what it was, strolled in the sun in his Panama hat, and began to meet her accidentally. "I did not know," said Mr.
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