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Updated: September 11, 2025
Maura afterwards told how they were enjoyed, and they knew of Kalliope's calm restfulness in Holy Week thoughts and Paschal Joys. It was on Easter Tuesday that Mr. White first sent a message asking to see his guest, now of nearly three weeks.
"I only had her telegram half-an-hour ago," said Kalliope, in an apologetic tone; and Lord Ivinghoe was to be dimly seen handing Maura over the fence. Moonlight gardens and moonlight sea! What was to be done? And Ivinghoe, who had begun life by being as exclusive as the Marchioness herself!
Sometimes of a morning, and sometimes in the evening, and even when the meridian sun has silenced all the other songsters of the grove, that strange toll is heard. At length, high up on the dried top of an aged maura, a snow-white bird may be seen, no larger than a pigeon; and yet it is the creature who is uttering those strange sounds.
Then came the four seasons belonging to the flower stall, appropriately decked with flowers, the Italian peasants with flat veils, bright aprons, and white sleeves, Maura White's beauty conspicuous in the midst, but with unnecessary nods and becks.
You are so much one of us that I did not remember that you did not know how the foolish boy was attracted- no, that's too strong a word -but she thought he was, when they were here to open Rotherwood Park. He did flirt, and Victoria- his mother, I mean- did not like it at all. She would never have come this time, but that I assured her that Maura was safe at Gastein!"
At that instant a little girlish figure advanced and was about to draw back on perceiving that Miss Adeline was not alone, when she exclaimed, 'Maura, is it you, out so late! How is your mother? 'Much the same, thank you, Miss Adeline!
Alexis and Maura both declared that she would instantly jump up, and want to begin looking over his socks; but she got no further than 'Dear boy! It is the sort of thing I always wished for him. People are very good! But his things 'Oh yes, dearie, ye need not fash yourself. I've mended them as I sat by you, and packed them all. Lie still. They are all right.
"Still less fair of Maura, if that's her name, to hint at attachment between Franceska and the boy. That was the embargo upon my poor fellow. He rushed off to have it out the moment he saw how matters stood." "Well, it was a great shame; but girls are girls, especially with those antecedents, and Maura did not know to the contrary.
Indeed, my sister Adeline would never have consented to her coming here if she had believed in it, but Maura has a Greek nature and turns the Whites round her fingers. Well, I hope all will go well with your pretty Franceska. I should not like her lovely bloom to be faded by Ivinghoe. He is Rotherwood's own boy, though rather a prig, and a man in London. Oh, you know what that means!"
'And I have some for Maura, said Valetta. Valetta's was an untidy bunch; Gillian's a dainty basket, where white violets reposed on moss within a circle of larger blossoms. 'That's something like! quoth Ivinghoe. He lingered with them as if he wanted to see that vision again, but only the caretaker appeared, and promised to take the flowers upstairs.
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