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"Will you let me tell you that it was not Miss MacDowlas who brought me here?" he said, in a low voice; "though I appreciate her kindness, as a grateful man ought. Vagabondia is desolate without you." She tried to laugh, but could not; her attempt broke off in the unconscious sigh, which always touched him, he scarcely knew why.
"He never saw me!" she said to herself, catching her breath piteously. "He is going to see Dolly. It is n't the party he cares for, and it is n't Miss MacDowlas, it is nobody but Dolly. He has tried to get an invitation just because because he cares for Dolly."
The sun beat down upon the outer world whitely, and scarcely a leaf stirred. Miss MacDowlas did not return, and Dolly, though she was not asleep, lay quite still and did not open her eyes again.
"You are good company and are fond of society?" "I am fond of society," said Dolly, "and I hope I am 'good company," "You don't easily lose patience?" "It depends upon circumstances," said Dolly. "You can play and sing?" "I did both the night I met you," returned the young person. "So you did," said Miss MacDowlas, and examined her again.
Miss MacDowlas took her there because she grew so weak, and she has grown weaker ever since, and three days ago they sent for Aimée to come to her, because because they think she is going to die." "And you say that I have done this?"
"Miss MacDowlas," she said, "is good enough to fancy I am not so well as I ought to be, Tod," bending her face low over the pretty little fellow, who had trotted to her knee. "What do you think of Aunt Dolly's appearing in the character of invalid? It sounds like the best of jokes, does n't it, Tod?" They tried to smile responsively, all of them, but the effort was not a success.
Somewhat unexpectedly Miss MacDowlas had decided upon giving a dinner-party, and Dolly wanted the white merino, which she had forgotten to put into her trunk when she had packed it. Would they make a parcel of it and send it by Mollie to Brabazon Lodge? "You will have to go at once, Mollie," said Aimée, after reading the note. "It will be dark in an hour, and you ought not to be out after dark."
"Grif," said Dolly, in a tired voice, "Grif." And then she remembered how she had written to him about what this very dénouement would be when it came. How strange, how wearily strange, it was to think that it should come about in such a way as this! "My nephew," said Miss MacDowlas. "Griffith Donne." "Yes," said Dolly, briefly. "I was engaged to him." "Was!" echoed Miss MacDowlas.
"Something of that kind," admitted Griffith. "Ah," said Dolly, "I thought so." Very naturally Griffith felt some slight embarrassment on encountering Miss MacDowlas, having a rather unpleasant recollection of various incidents of the past. But Miss Berenice faced the matter in a different manner and with her usual decision of character.
She was far more comfortable than she had expected to be, she told him. Her duties were light, and Miss MacDowlas not hard to please, and altogether she was not dissatisfied.
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