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Updated: June 19, 2025
A great-grandmother called Saint Cecilia was not half so interesting as a beautiful great-aunt with a romantic love story; and an old and useless spinet not to be compared to a ring like Patricia's. That the ring was to be Genevieve's she never doubted.
"Well, you can tell her I wear these or none at all," Patricia said, stoutly. "None at all!" repeated Miss Fenler. "Don't attempt to come into the class-room with your long hair untidy. Without a ribbon it would look slovenly." Patricia's smile was broad, and her eyes actually impish as she left the hall.
Of course I don't understand everything they say, but it sounds good, so sympathetic, don't you think?" She had paused often with the little smile that implored pity for her rattlepatedness. Now it prolonged itself as the orchestra became wildly alive. Winona had but half listened to Patricia's chatter. She had been staring instead at the girl's hair staring and wondering lawlessly.
They seemed almost to speak to him, to wonder at his presence there; but, stranger than all else, to express unquestionable pleasure because of his presence. He thought it remarkable that Morton did not move; that the man made no effort to rise, or to speak; that there was neither smile nor frown upon his white, still face. Then, Patricia's voice broke the spell that was upon him.
He joyed in his old home, in the hipped roof of it, the mullioned casements, the wide window-seats, the high and spacious rooms, the geometrical gardens and broad lawns, in all that was quaint and beautiful at Matocton, because it would be Patricia's so very soon, the lovely frame of a yet lovelier picture, as the colonel phrased it with a flight of imagery.
Not far from them was the rustic summer-house which Miss Betty had called Patricia's arbor. "Maurice," Rosalind exclaimed, with conviction in her tone, "this is the Forest of Arden." "You talk about it as if it were all true, instead of only a story," said Maurice. "But it is true one kind of true.
He let that go, and for the time the talk was of the doings at Wartrace Hall: of the professor's enthusiastic digging for fossils, of Patricia's keen enjoyment of the life in the open, and this put with gentle hesitation on the part of the news-bringer of Mrs. Honoria's growing affection for the young woman whose ambitions reached out toward a sociological career.
Cuff wagged his stubby tail excitedly. He was a proud creature, a proof of what could be done with a bad job, and he had all the snobbishness that is acquired, not bred in the bone. He slept on the foot of Patricia's bed and forgot back alleys. He selected tidbits with the air of one who knew not garbage cans, but he redeemed all shortcomings by his faithful love to her who had rescued him.
He looked like a gnome with his wrinkled skin, his little eyes, his muddy gray hair and even his clothes almost of a color with the earth. He was carrying a lantern, but instead of speaking beckoned mysteriously to Sally to follow him out to Miss Patricia's barn, where a half dozen cows were now installed.
She laid an impulsive hand on Patricia's arm and opened her pretty lips, but before the words came she evidently obeyed another differing impulse, for she underwent a subtle change, an imperceptible hardening that was so delicately veiled by her still gracious manner that Patricia had only a baffling sense of being gently shut out from her real confidence.
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