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Updated: June 11, 2025
But, in all sincerity, I must say that I hope not." "You will go to the ball, of course?" "I think I will, Melvina." "Well, that settled, what are you going to wear?" "Something plain and simple, of course. But I have not thought of that." "O don't Caroline. You will make yourself singular." "I hope not, for I dislike singularity. But how are you going to dress?
"The English captain has sent us word that we are to take it down before sunset, so that he may be saved that trouble," replied Parson Lyon, his tone indicating that he considered the English captain's remark as an amusing utterance, not to be seriously considered. "But it will not be taken down," said Melvina confidently. "Indeed it will not.
"Perhaps he has been sent after Melvina, and can't find her," thought Luretta; and she was right; the colored man had been to Captain Horton's house to walk home with his little mistress, and had been told that Melvina had not been there that afternoon; and he was now hurrying home with this alarming news.
"There's something here I want you should put your name to; an' you can fetch that man who's downstairs, an' Tony." "All right." When, however, a few seconds later Melvina, accompanied by the stranger and the wondering Portuguese boy, entered the patient's room, it was Mr. Benton who stepped into the foreground and who came obsequiously forward, pen in hand, to address the attendant.
Then, noticing Anna's look of disappointment, she added: "I know what you may do, Danna. You and Melvina may go up and see the rabbits, and I will wait here for Parson Lyon and tell him where Melvina is, and that we will see her safely home; and then I will hurry after you." "Oh! Yes, indeed; that is a splendid plan," said Melvina eagerly, jumping up from the log. "Let us go now, Anna.
"You shall have your shortcake if there is a berry within five miles." The woman listened to the fall of the light step on the stairs and the fragment of a song that came from the girl's lips until the last note of the music died away; then she called Melvina. "Melviny!" "Yes, marm." "I want you should find Tony and tell him to harness up. There's somethin' I need done in the village."
And is not Luretta kind to think of it?" Anna agreed rather soberly. Mrs. Foster had told them to remain near the log, she remembered, but if Melvina saw no harm in Luretta's plan she was sure it must be right; so taking Melvina's hand they started off.
Lyon would come to the door, she thought hopefully. But it was Melvina herself who opened the door. Melvina, wearing a white dress and a long apron. For a moment the two little girls stood looking at each other in surprise. Then Melvina smiled radiantly. "Oh! It really is you, Anna! Come in. I am keeping house this afternoon, and nobody will know that you are here."
After she had gone and Ellen was once more in bed, Melvina tried in vain to quiet the increasing restlessness of her patient, but all attempts to soothe the invalid were without avail. Tossing from side to side on the pillows, her fingers picking nervously at the coverings, Ellen stared into the darkness, breaking from time to time into fragments of angry dialogue.
So Melvina reluctantly took off her slippers, and the pretty open-work stockings, and curling her feet under her, sat down on a big rock to watch Luretta dip the stockings in the little pool of sea water near by, and to send anxious glances toward the sandy bluff where Anna was searching for the missing bag.
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