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Miss Nellie Wellington has to play for us, or she would dance, so please come," Miss Kitty urged, looking disappointed enough over Mona's unexpected refusal. Mona shrank from joining the dancers, or from mingling with the company, for several reasons.
Montague demanded, as she went toward the door, while she tried to control her trembling voice to speak naturally. "What has happened? I thought I heard a fall," came the response in the anxious tones of Mona's voice. "Nothing very serious has happened," returned Mrs.
When they galloped into the yard which sloped from the house gently down to the river fifty yards away, Mona's face appeared for a moment in the window. Evidently she had been watching for some one, and Thurston's heart flopped in his chest as he wondered, fleetingly, if it could be himself.
The cook declared herself unable to prepare Mrs. Parson's "messes" acceptably, and threatened every other day to leave. But Patty's coaxing persuasions, and Mona's promise of increased wages induced her to remain. Remonstrance with Aunt Adelaide did no good at all.
She met him in the hall, where he had been walking back and forth, for he surmised what the nature of Mona's interview would be, and knew that the time had come for him to act with boldness if he hoped to win the prize he coveted. "Come into your room, where we shall not be overheard," Mrs.
It had not been good for his peace of mind to sit and watch the color come and go in Mona's cheeks, and the laughter spring unheralded into her dear, big eyes, and the light tangle itself in the waves of her hair. He guided his horse carefully through the deep places, and noted uneasily how much deeper it was than when they had crossed before.
With this view in mind I imagined she was saying to herself: "I want nothing to say to you. I accept your assistance because I cannot get to shore without you, but when once out of this dreadful water I shall have nothing more to do with you." To place against the latter theory I had the fact that Mona's face had beamed with pleasure all the time I was getting her fixed so I could swim freely.
The reply was like a slap in the face. "I acted for him in any way at all that he wished me to," Kitty answered, with quiet boldness and shining, defiant face. Mona's hand fell away from the green baize desk, and her eyes again lost their sight for a moment. Kitty was not savage by nature.
In due time we landed on the ruddy planet, and there was great diversion for us all in seeing Mona's continued astonishment and in hearing her varied song. It seemed almost like home to enter Thorwald's house again, where we found everything just as we had left it.
We can only hope with you that she may speedily recover her voice, which has seemed to form such a great part of her, and has given us all so much delight." Perhaps it was imagination, but it seemed to me that Mona's behavior toward me was more affectionate than it had formerly been.
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