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He looked at his daughter with a smile. "Not quite so bad as that, Nollie; but Mr. Fort is certainly subversive. I think perhaps he has seen too many queer sides of life." "I like him the better for that." "Well, well," Pierson answered absently. He had work to do in preparation for a Confirmation Class, and sought his study on getting in. Noel went to the dining-room to drink her hot milk.
She moved out of the shadow of the trees, went straight up to him, and, looking in his perturbed face, said calmly: "Cyril asked me to say good-bye to you all, Uncle. Good night!" "But, I say, Nollie look here you!" She had passed on. She went up to her room. There, by the door, her aunt was standing, and would have kissed her. She drew back: "No, Auntie. Not to-night!"
We miss you and the youngster awfully. Come along down, Nollie there's a dear!" "They're darlings," Noel said, "but I shan't go. I'm too restless, ever since Daddy went; you don't know how restless. This rain simply makes me want to die." The weather improved next day, and at the end of that week harvest began.
"Yes; I'm afraid he's over head and ears in love with her." At the dismayed sound he uttered, she slipped her soft round arm within his. "He's going to the front soon, poor boy!" "Have they talked to you?" "He has. Nollie hasn't yet." "Nollie is a queer child, Thirza." "Nollie is a darling, but rather a desperate character, Edward." Pierson sighed.
She woke with a start. It was dark, and someone was knocking on her door. "Miss Noel!" Childish perversity kept her silent. Why couldn't they leave her alone? They would leave her alone if they knew. Then she heard another kind of knocking, and her father's voice: "Nollie! Nollie!" She scrambled up, and opened. He looked scared, and her heart smote her. "It's all right, Daddy; I was asleep."
With a man's keener sense of family propriety, he could not see that this baby would be the same as any other baby. "By heaven!" he would say, "I simply can't get used to it; in our family! And Ted a parson! What the devil shall we do with it?" "If Nollie will let us, why shouldn't we adopt it? It'll be something to take my thoughts off the boys." "That's an idea! But Ted's a funny fellow.
I don't know what it was, but I didn't like her face." Neither did Thirza, but she would not admit it, and encourage Bob to take it to heart. He took things so hardly, and with such a noise! She only said: "Poor young things! I suppose it will be a relief to Edward!" "I love Nollie!" said Bob Pierson suddenly. "She's an affectionate creature. D-nit, I'm sorry about this.
He stammered out the single word "Nollie!" "It's quite true," she said, turned round, and went out. Pierson had a sort of vertigo; if he had moved, he must have fallen down. Nollie!
While she was so engaged her father came up and said: "Captain Fort, Nollie. Will you give him some coffee? I'm afraid I must go out." When he had gone, Noel looked at her visitor drinking his coffee. He had been out there, too, and he was alive; with only a little limp. The visitor smiled and said: "What were you thinking about when we came in?" "Only the war." "Any news of him?"
At the hospital she had to wait half an hour in a little bare room before George came. "Nollie! Splendid. I've got an hour. Let's get out of this cemetery. We'll have time for a good stretch on the tops. Jolly of you to have come to me. Tell us all about it." When she had finished, he squeezed her arm. 348 "I knew it wouldn't do.
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