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And your teeth are very white; and then your hair, it is like gold when the sun makes it all dazzling. And and " "And I am English-an English girl," continued Madame. "An English girl!" repeated Cecile, "you are like her then!" "Cecile, I am her I am Lovedy Joy!" "You! you!" repeated Cecile. "You Lovedy! But no, no; you are Suzanne you are Mme. Malet." "Nevertheless I was I am Lovedy Joy.
"Look me full in the face, Cecile, and make the promise as solemn as though it were yer werry last breath look me in the face, Cecile, and say after me, 'I promise to find Lovedy again." "I promise to find Lovedy again," repeated Cecile. "Now kiss me, child." Cecile did so.
This name attracted her a guide would be so useful by and by when she went into a foreign land to look for Lovedy. "Do you think as He'd guide me too, Mistress Bell?" "For sure, deary, for sure. Don't He call a little thing like you one of His lambs? 'Tis said of Him that He carries the lambs in His arms. That's a very safe way of being guided, ain't it, Mercy?" "Yes, ma'am.
"You're a good child," she said eagerly; "yes, you're a very good child; you promise me solemn and true, then I'll die easy and comforted. Yes, I'll die easy, even though Lovedy ain't with me, even though I'll never lay my eyes on my Lovedy again." "Who's Lovedy?" asked Cecile. "Aye, child, we're coming to Lovedy, 'tis about Lovedy you've got to promise.
Cecile handed the paper to her, and Jane read aloud the following words: "'This purse contains fifty-five pounds. Forty pounds in Bank of England ten-pound notes, for my dear and only child, Lovedy Joy; fifteen pounds in gold for my stepdaughter, Cecile D'Albert. To be spent by her in looking for my daughter, and for no other use whatever.
But it ain't long really. It seems very short to look back on. I ain't forty yet, Cecile; and that's counted no age as lives go; but I never for all that had a moment. When I wor very young I married; and afore I married, I had only time for play and pleasure; and then afterward Lovedy came, and her father died, and I had to think on my grief, and how to bring up Lovedy.
No, Cecile, you must take the purse o' money away with you this very night, hide it in yer dress, or anywhere, for Aunt Lydia may be here early in the morning, and the weakness may be on me then. Yes, Cecile, you has charge on that money, fifty-five pounds in all; fifteen pounds for you to spend, and forty to give to Lovedy.
Thus encouraged, Joe did tell Cecile's story; he told it well, and with pathos all about that step-mother and her lost child; all about her solemn dying charge; and then of how he met the children, and their adventures and escapes; and of how in vain they looked for the English girl with the golden hair and eyes of blue, but still of how their faith never failed them; and of how they hoped to see Lovedy in some village in the Pyrenees.
The horrible responsibility was over, the immediate terror gone, help seemed to be coming at the utmost speed, and tears of relief rushed into Rachel's eyes, tears that Lovedy must have perceived, for she spoke the first articulate words she had uttered since the night-watch had begun, "Please, ma'am, don't fret, I'm going to poor mother."
Even Aunt Lydia, as her mother's sister, did repentant Lovedy find out; and, seeing her now reduced to absolute poverty, she helped her as best she could. Nothing could make Lydia Purcell really grateful; but even she was a little softened by Lovedy's beauty and bewitching ways.
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