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"It is just what you might have expected, in fact, it was inviting it." "It wasn't," said Crickey, almost crying, for she had previously been inclined to take it as a tribute to her charms. "Freddy and Estelle had hid there before, and Captain Du Meresq said it was the best place in the house." "For that, no doubt," began the other.
Bertie murmured a profusion of thanks, and, distrustful of Miss Opie, protested against being so troublesome. But Bluebell, scarce able to believe in such luck, sprang up with a sudden illumination of countenance, and the next minute the lovers were alone under the light of the moon. "Bluebell," said Du Meresq, "I have got a sleigh here.
Then the vehicle receives a shove off the top of the hill, and shoots down the smooth precipice, and the novice, with shut eyes to escape the blinding snow that flies like hailstones about him, listens to the wind whistling behind, and with bated breath the first time at any rate wishes it were over. "Captain Du Meresq," cried Lilla, "come along; I am going to take you down the big jump."
Du Meresq did not stay very late. Both he and Cecil were quiet and dreamy. To be in the same room again was quite happiness enough for the present. Mrs. Rolleston also was entirely satisfied, diverted her husband's attention with creature comforts, and made no effort to detain Bertie.
A minute later, she tried again, "I hope Captain Du Meresq is better." "How red you have got, 'Boobell!" said Freddy. "Look, mamma!" "What did you say, my dear Bertie? Oh, yes, he is very lame still; but he was obliged to go yesterday."
On one of these last evenings some of the officers were dining at the Colonel's, and among them which was unusual now Fane, who, though believing that Cecil's love affair with Du Meresq must have been broken off, still honourably abstained from her society till she should, by some sign, absolve him from his promise.
Rolleston was becoming fidgetty. To some women, as they advance in years, an inability of separating chaff from earnest becomes more pronounced, and the uppermost wish of her mind at present was to see a real attachment between Bertie and Cecil. Albert Du Meresq was only her half-brother; but he had become her charge in infancy under terrible circumstances, which we will briefly relate. When Mr.
What? give up all those hours with Bertie! His last day, too, and the first of their happiness! In utter consternation, Cecil cast a most imploring glance at her father; but he, appearing not to see it, continued nonchalantly, "It is a long, dull drive, and I shall really be glad of your company." Du Meresq ground his heel into the gravel with vexation, and Mrs.
Du Meresq came in shortly before the rest; the elder girl did not even look up, but her face again lit. He stood
"Nor could the 'dairy flower' herself, I should think. It's no use rhapsodizing before me, Bertie; I shall not tell her in any confidential communication, whatever you may think." "Ah, well," said Captain Du Meresq, with a sigh, "let us hope the ingenious child may understand the universal language of the eyes, for I hear papa would not approve of my speaking to her." Mrs.
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