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"Then, if you really don't mind, we shan't have to wait. Not a week, if you're ready to come to me." But Lucia's face was sad. "Keith darling don't make plans till we know what Sir Wilfrid Spence says." "I shall, whatever he says. But I suppose I must consult him before I take you to Alassio."
The six days might have been six years and Court House the home of his infancy, Lucia's presence filled it with so warm an atmosphere of kindness and of love. The very servants had learnt something of her gentle, considerate ways. He was at home there as he had never been at home before.
"I will ask Lady Ambermere. That will make us four, with you Georgie, and Miss Bracely and Mr Shuttleworth will make six. The rest I shall ask to come in at nine, for I know Lady Ambermere does not like late hours. And now shall we talk over our tableaux?" So even Lucia's mind had not been wholly absorbed in Beethoven, though Georgie, as usual, told her she had never played so divinely.
Will she not be a great addition to our musical parties? Now, please." But this splendid bravado was but a scintillation, on a hard and highly polished surface, and had Georgie been able to penetrate into Lucia's heart he would have found complete healing for his recent severe mortification.
Moore sends you her best love, and wants you to get thoroughly rested, so that you can see her the first thing in the morning, Mrs. Wetherly. She says you are not to let them frighten you." As if by magic the formidable frown faded from Aunt Lucia's forehead. She smiled approvingly at the nurse. "Very well. I should like to ask you a few questions Clarice was always thoughtful."
Perhaps the strong elasticity of youth and hope in Lucia's nature had only waited for some chance touch to set it free, and make it spring up vigorously after its repression. At any rate she found a fanciful omen in the visit of the snow-white bird; and began to believe that in the new country and the new life, there might be as much that was good and happy as in the old one.
Even the very wisest man is obliged to offer to the gods of his time. It was a lovely day and a brilliant scene. Lucia's distinguished family had arrived in full force and glittering pageant. Not only the violet but the crimson clergy were represented. The street populace of Como were lined up from the landing place of our boats to the cathedral as at the arrival of royalty.
Recalling with bitter sorrow how vaguely and distantly the lovely blossoming of Lucia's children had passed by me, because I had not participated with my entire being in their growth and their development, I now hoped after all to be father in the full sense of the word, and with clear perception and unabating interest to delight in this lovely miracle.
"One must economize on the trousseau when the bridegroom has cost the fortune," Maria found her wicked little tongue to say and Lucia turned sallow beneath her olive. Briskly Mamma intervened. "We are thinking not of one of you but all. Now no more words, my little ones. There is too much to be done." There was indeed, with this trip to be arranged for before the onrush of Lucia's preparation!
"Please please don't think of it " "There is no use thinking of it. Still, I wanted you to know that I really meant it I believed it could be done. Of course I don't know how much you really wanted it." "Wanted it? I'd 'ave given half my life for a year of it." Lucia's hand, laid lightly on the table's edge, felt a strong vibration communicated to it from Mr. Rickman's arm.
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