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It's not so late yet," and putting Mysie's arm in his, he turned off into the little pathway that skirted the wood, and she, caught by the glamor of the gloaming, as well as flattered by his attentions, acquiesced. Plaintive and eerie the moor-birds protested against this invasion of their haunts.
She waited until the other members of the house had gone out, and then with a sigh observed very quietly but with a world of tender sympathy in her voice: "Mysie's sinkin' fast, Robin. I think you should gang ower and see her. She canna' last very lang, puir thing, an' she was askin' aboot you when I was ower. I think she wad like to see you.
While, on the other hand, Dolores considered what she called 'being sent to bed' an unmerited and unjust sentence given without a hearing; when their tardiness had been all Mysie's fault, not hers. She had no notion that her aunt only sent them to lie down, because they looked heated, tired, and spent, and was really letting them off their morning's lessons.
'For do you know, Gill, Maura has never had a new story-book since mamma gave her Little Alice and her Sister, when she was seven years old! Do bring her Stories They Tell Me, and On Angel's Wings. 'But is not that Mysie's? 'Oh yes, but I know Mysie would let her have it. Mysie always let Maura have everything of hers, because the boys teased her.
"But wha said Mysie Maitland has gang wrang?" enquired Mrs. Sinclair, flaring up in Mysie's defense. "I wadna' believe it, though you went down on your bended knees to tell me. A modester, weel-doin' lassie never lived in this place!"
I am pretty sure that if I punished Wilfred for every teasing trick I know, or guess at, he would in his present mood only become deceitful, and esprit de corps might make Val and Fergus the same, though I don't think Mysie's truth could be shaken any more than honest Phyl's. 'Besides, mutual discipline is not a thing to upset. Lily, I revere you!
You know she is an excellent mother. 'Too excellent, that's the very thing, muttered Aunt Jane. 'Well, Mysie's fate is settled, and I dare say it will turn out for the best. So Mysie was to go with Mrs. Halfpenny and Primrose to Beechcroft, whence the Rotherwoods would fetch her.
A letter from Mysie was awaiting Gillian, not lengthy, for there was a long interval between Mysie's brains and her pen, and saying nothing about the New Zealand report. The selection of lace was much approved, and the next day there was to be an expedition to endeavour to get the veil matched as nearly as possible. The only dangerous moment was at breakfast the next day, when Miss Mohun said
At last, however, from the top of one of these declivities, the brilliant, flashing light of the long-watched-for Pharos greeted Mysie's despairing eyes, and woke new hopes of warmth, rest, and shelter.
'Oh, but then one would never talk of anything! 'Oh, Val! I won't be sure, but I don't believe I should mind mamma's hearing all I say. 'Yes; but you've never been to school, and I heard Bee Varley say she never saw anybody so childishly simple for her age. This brought the colour into Mysie's face, but she said
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