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Alice wanted another moonlight talk about the baby, and knew the small chance of getting it where Deborah Pennycuick was, and she raised obstacles, fighting for delay. Deborah calmly turned to Jim. "Anything to hinder your coming this afternoon, Jim?" "Nothing," said Mr Urquhart promptly. The matter was evidently settled. They sat down to lunch, and the talk was brisk.
His father's relieved and astonished pleasure in the sight was only equalled by Mary's pleasure in seeing his pleasure. "Isn't he a jolly little cuss, Miss Pennycuick?" "He is a perfect darling," crooned Mary, kissing him. And, in fact, Harry Carey was a fine, clean, wholesome child, as worthy of his old family as any born under the ancestral roof.
Ladies and gentlemen, long life and happiness to Deborah Pennycuick and her husband that is to be!" A general turmoil broke out, glass-clinkings, cheers, handshakings; kissings, with a sob or two from the overwrought. And Guthrie, with no heart upon his sleeve, bowed and drank with the rest. When the demonstration was over, and the company back in its chairs, Dalzell was left standing.
Jim was for driving hot-foot to Redford to warn Mr Pennycuick against disseminating the newspaper through the house too rashly. Alice and her mother each volunteered to go with him, so as to "break it" with feminine skilfulness to Mary, whose reason might be destroyed by too sudden a gorge of joy, like the stomach of a starved man by clumsy feeding.
"No, Miss Pennycuick. I laughed. I said to myself: 'Here is another of Miss Francie's mare's nests. But when I read on she told me so many things they were incredible, but still I felt I had to sift the matter; and since I came up today, other people I've been to Five Creeks and had a talk with Jim Urquhart now I don't know what to think; at least, there is but one thing that I can think."
Stay and see baby undressed I always do it myself and have a bit of dinner with us; you will, won't you? Give me my nursing apron, Jane." As she tied the sheet of flannel over her smart gown, she whispered to Jane: "Go down and tell Mr Breen that Miss Pennycuick is going to stay to dinner."
"There!" triumphed Frances, "what did I say?" "MARY!" their father echoed Rose's surprised tone. "The dickens! You don't say so. Poor little soul! Poor little girlie! Well, I never thought of that. Did you, Deb?" "Never, father. Not for a moment." "I suppose it was the child. It must have been the child." Mr Pennycuick was deeply concerned.
Willoughby, meeting Mr. Brandram in a half-lighted room, takes him for her husband, flies to his arms and kisses him. More elaborate than either of these is the tangle of coincidences in Mr. Stuart Ogilvie's play, The White Knight Giulietta, the ward of David Pennycuick, goes to study singing at Milan. Mr.
"She is more beautiful than ever," was his poignant thought, as he walked away from her, and from all the glorious life that she suggested to such a dull and common doom. Mr Pennycuick, at first, was a terrible figure, struggling between his father-fury and his old-gentleman instincts of courtesy to a guest.
"And this is Kathleen" a chubby creature in a flannel dressing-gown, waiting for her bath; "and Lucy" being rubbed down by the nursery underling, Jane; "and Pennycuick" Deb started at the name, and was uncertain whether it pleased her or not in this connection the baby but one, in the tub under the hands of old head-nurse Keziah. "ARE they not sweet?" They really were.
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