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Not that I was in love with Miss Mayton; a man may honestly and strongly admire a handsome, brilliant woman without being in love with her; he can delight himself in trying to give her pleasure, without feeling it necessary that she shall give him herself in return.
And I saw my glorious Alice snatch the little scamp into her arms and treat him with more affection than I had ever imagined was in her nature. Suddenly two or three ladies came upon the piazza. "Come, boys!" said I. "Then I'll call with the carriage to-morrow at three, Miss Mayton. Good-evening."
It was easy to be seen that he was not too much pleased at commanding a company composed so entirely of women and children; neither do I think he would have undertaken the charge had we not expected Sir Walter Mayton, my children's guardian, and Mr. B., their tutor, to make part of the live stock. The former was prevented accompanying us by domestic matters; the latter from his father's death.
The driver stopped of his own accord he seemed to know the children's ways and their results and I helped them in, meekly hoping the eye of Providence was upon me. That afternoon I devoted myself to making a bouquet for Miss Mayton, and a most delightful occupation I found it. Not that I was in love with Miss Mayton.
He turned to Mrs. Rheinholdt, who with her son, the butler, and the Professor were the only occupants of the conservatory. "It seems to me," he remarked, "that from the back part of the house the quickest way to reach Mayton Avenue would be through this conservatory and out of that door. There is a path leading from just outside straight to a gate in the wall.
Wayne, and I've been silly enough to promise to have an eye to the place while they're away." "Why, how delightful!" exclaimed Miss Mayton. "SUCH horses! SUCH flowers! SUCH a cook!" "And such children," said I, glaring suggestively at the imps, and rescuing from Toddie a handkerchief which he had extracted from my pocket, and was waving to the breeze. "Why, they're the best children in the world.
But, alas, my enjoyment was probably more than I deserved, so it was cut short. There were other ladies boarding at Mrs. Clarkson's, and as Miss Mayton truthfully observed at our first meeting, men were very scarce at Hillcrest.
Handsome, intelligent, composed, tastefully dressed, she awakened to the uttermost every admiring sentiment and every manly feeling. When I began to take leave, Miss Mayton's mother insisted that we should stay to dinner. "For myself, I should be delighted, Mrs. Mayton," said I, "but my nephews have hardly learned company manners yet." "Oh, I'll take care of the little dears," said Miss Mayton.
Women like Alice Mayton do not thus give themselves unreservedly away except when their trust is born of knowledge as well as affection, and the realization of all this changed me on that afternoon from whatever I had been into what I had long hoped I might one day be. But the hours flew rapidly, and I reluctantly turned the horses' heads homeward.
Mayton brought her foot down with a violent stamp. "I know you'd 'spect HIM, if you knew how nice he was," continued Budge. "He sings awful funny songs, an' tells splendid stories." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the angry mother. "They ain't no nonsense at all," said Budge.
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