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"Substantial!" said the doctor; "you look as substantial a personage as your old friend the 'faire Una, just about. Well prepare yourself, gentle Saxon, to ride home with me the day after to-morrow. I'll try a little humanizing regimen with you." "I don't think that is possible, uncle Orrin," said Fleda gently.
"I know it," she murmured, "I know it," and would not say another word or let me. And so the burden of this new apprehension is laid upon me; for happiness cannot come out of this complication. Where is Orrin, and what is he doing that he stays so much from home?
No, but I understand my duty, and that is enough, though it is sometimes hard to do it, and I would rather be where I could forget, instead of being where I am forced continually to remember. Am I always with Orrin when he is not at work or asleep? I begin to doubt it.
"Hum! I might have known," said the doctor, "that the 'faire Una' would abjure cities. Come here, you Elf!" and he wrapped her in his arms so tight she could not stir "I have a spite against you for this. What amends will you make me for such an affront?" "Let me take breath," said Fleda, laughing, "and I'll tell you. You don't want any amends, uncle Orrin."
They laughed with their foreheads on the tables, or on the floor; laughed at length, curled over the backs of chairs or clinging to a book-shelf; laughed themselves limp. And in the middle of it Orrin entered on behalf of the house. "Don't mind us, Orrin; sit down. You don't know how we respect and admire you.
Annoyed at myself, and ashamed of an interest that made every trivial incident connected with this affair of such moment to me, I turned back to my work, and in a few moments had finished it and left the wood, when what was my astonishment to see Orrin coming from the same place, with his face turned toward the village, and a hardy, determined expression upon it which made me first wonder and then ask myself if I really comprehended this man or knew what he cherished in his heart of hearts.
"I shall be glad of it!" said the doctor. "Glad of it?" said Fleda, smiling. "Do you want to get rid of me, uncle Orrin?" "Yes!" said he. "This isn't the right place for you. You are too much alone." "No, indeed, Sir. I have been reading voraciously, and enjoying myself as much as possible. I would quite as lieve be here as there, putting you out of the question."
Prout has a notion that you have been corrupting your associates somehow or other." "Mr. Prout has so many notions, Padre," said Beetle wearily. "Which one is this?" "Well, he tells me that he heard you telling a story in the twilight in the form-room, in a whisper. And Orrin said, just as he opened the door, 'Shut up, Beetle; it's too beastly. Now then?" "You remember Mrs.
Orrin, who stood so close to me that I could hear his heart beat as loudly as my own, had evidently asked himself the same question, for his hand closed spasmodically on mine, as the Colonel opened his lips, and neither of us dared so much as to breathe lest we should lose what the lovers had to say.
Manning, division superintendent, and the Honourable Orrin Young, railroad commissioner and candidate for reappointment all are embracing the opportunity to greet humble friends or to make new acquaintances. Another hour and a quarter, with the temperature steadily rising and the carbon dioxide increasing and the second ballot is announced.
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