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Not only had he made many an opportunity to see her, but his mother had taken pains to bring the two together. She liked Joan, and made no secret of the fact. Mittie had often been left out of these arrangements, and had resented it. For a good while Fred Ferris had been away from home; but Joan knew that he was likely to come soon, and she built upon the hope.
Jeff knew the danger-signals. Too deeply sunken in melancholy to venture any further retorts, he withdrew himself, seeking sanctuary in the lee of Mittie May. He squatted upon the capsized keeler, automatically balancing himself as it wabbled under him on its one projecting handle, and, with his eyes fixed on nothing, gave himself over unreservedly to a consuming canker.
An education." Mittie Scaritt had always had ambition and a fierce sort of pride. She had needed them to combat Len's shiftlessness and slack good nature.
The cause for his staying on was revealed when Mittie May took the first of those mental hazards of hers.
In a general way, Joan would at once have agreed that Mittie should be the one to go, that she herself would be the one to stay behind. But this was no ordinary case. In the summer before she had seen a good deal of Fred Ferris. He had been at home for three months after an accident, which, for the time, disabled him from work; and he had been unmistakably attracted by Joan.
You want me to stay here, and set you free. And I'm not going to do it. I simply won't won't won't! It's no earthly use your trying to make me. I'm asked too, and I mean to go." "Mittie, you've not seen the note yet. I think you ought to read it. She asks me first and then she just says, would I like to bring ?" "It doesn't matter, and I don't want to see! It's enough that I'm invited."
Mary, who happened to be the only daughter at home, took her in charge and put her through a steady course of gardens, glasshouses, family pets, and old furniture for none of which Mittie cared a rap. What she had wanted was a gay young party, plenty of fun and merriment, and for herself abundance of admiration.
Almost in complete silence they went to The Laurels. Mittie's repeated attempts at conversation died, each in succession, a natural death. When Mary Ferris appeared, surprise was again shown at the sight of Mittie alone. Mary Ferris did not take it so quietly as her brother had done. She was naturally blunt, and she put one or two awkward questions which Mittie found it not easy to evade.
'I am pushed to ye last point, and so won't be cagioled any more. He collected his treasures left with Mittie, the surgeon of Stanislas at Luneville. Among these was a couteau de chasse, with a double-barrelled pistol in a handle of jade. D'Argenson reports that the Prince was seen selling his pistols to an armourer in Paris. Who can wonder if he lost temper, and sought easy oblivion in wine!
Her eyebrows went up, and her eyes ran questioningly over the white-frocked figure. "What, only Mittie! How is this? Where is Joan?" Mittie felt rather small, but she was not going to admit that she had been in the wrong. "Joan wouldn't come," she said, smiling. "Is she not well?" "Oh yes; quite well. I did try to persuade her but she wouldn't." The mother and daughter exchanged glances.
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