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Harrington and Tom Fuller came back with her. The girl was in more joyous spirits than ever; more bewitching and beautiful, if possible; and Elizabeth could see plainly that Mellen's love for her fell little short of absolute idolatry. She was not jealous. If Elsie had been her own sister, she could not have become more attached to her than she had grown during their year of companionship.
Mellen's library with Caleb Benson, the high-shouldered, bald-headed occupant of "The Sailor's Safe Anchor," and the person whose prerogative it had been to supply fresh fish to the family at Piney Cove. Besides this, he performed a good deal of work in the grounds, and made himself generally useful.
The weather had been delightful; they enjoyed rides and drives, moonlight excursions upon the water; there had been visits to receive and return among neighbors and friends; people had heard of Mellen's return, and came uninvited from New York, bringing all that festal bustle and change which puts holidays every now and then into the ordinary routine of our lives.
Some of the pictures were great, but I couldn't stand for those milk chocolate Dutch women with the Mellen's Food babies. I like pictures with something doing in them for mine such as battles and sea pictures." The millionaire pointed towards the room beyond the salon. He said: "If you are fond of paintings of battle scenes, I have two Meissoniers, which I think rather good.
She forced them to enter, talking in her excited way, and making everybody laugh so much that neither the frown on Mellen's brow nor his wife's paleness were observed. "You have been out," she found an opportunity to whisper to Elizabeth; "you must be mad!" "I shall be!" groaned the woman; "I shall be!"
Mellen's quiet manners for pride, and held her in slight favor in consequence; so dazzled by Elsie's manner, that when she gave them a cast-off garment or a worthless ornament, it seemed a much greater boon than the real kindness Elizabeth invariably displayed when they were in sickness or trouble.
Suddenly her glance wandered towards the crowd on her left a sudden pallor swept the roses from her cheek her hand closed convulsively on Mellen's arm; but in an instant, before even he had noticed her agitation, it had passed she walked on to the carriage graceful and queen-like as ever.
Perhaps the idea of the gayety that would ensue was not unpleasant to Elsie, in spite of her joy at Mellen's return; it was quite natural at her age, and to her character, which drooped in solitude like a flower deprived of the sun. "Oh," said Mellen, "we will give them as many dinners and parties as they like, provided they won't domicile themselves with us, Elizabeth."
Again that singular look passed over Elizabeth Mellen's face; she listened and endured rather than returned the young girl's caress, but Mr. Mellen was watching his sister and did not observe it. "And isn't he brown?" cried Elsie, rushing over to her brother again; "he looks like an Indian, don't he, Bess? Oh, you bad, bad boy, to stay so long."
If there ain't no danger 'taint fit to send any horse out in a storm like this anyhow." "I can't stand arguing here," Mellen began, but the old man unceremoniously interrupted him. "Where do you want to go?" he asked. "Over to Piney Cove." "Mr. Mellen's place! Why it's good three miles, and he ain't to hum, nor hasn't been, nigh on to two years."
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