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"Mamma," she said, in a low, thoughtful voice, "I love to think of her." And rising, she stood beside Verty, who was still looking at the portrait. "She must have been very good," he murmured; "I think her face is full of kindness." Redbud gazed softly at the portrait, and, as she mused, the dews of love and memory suffused her tender eyes, and she turned away.
"Oh, yes, sir," said Redbud, looking at him with her kind, sad eyes, "you need'nt be ceremonious with me. Besides, you're Fanny's cousin. I bought this necklace I thought it old-fashioned and pretty." Redbud was silent again, her eyes bent quietly upon the walk, the long lashes reposing thus upon the tender little cheeks.
Redbud made no reply to this innocent speech of Mr. Verty, but walked on. The noise which they made in leaving the arbor attracted the attention of the personages whose conversation we have been compelled to overhear; and Mr. Jinks and his companion passed through an opening in the shrubbery, and appeared in full view.
At last he raised his face, which seemed to have sunken away in the last few moments, and still holding the necklace tightly, motioned Redbud toward the door. "We will speak further of this," he said, his voice charged with tears; and with a slow movement of his head up and down, he again desired Redbud to leave him. She went out: the last she saw was Mr.
Fanny greeted this manoeuvre with a sudden blow in the laugher's face, from her bouquet; and Redbud, forgetting her disquietude, laughed gaily at the merry cousins. So they entered, and met the bevy of young school girls on the portico, with whom Mr.
"Well, here we are, and there's Lavinia bless her heart with an expression which indicates protestation at the loudness of my voice, ha! ha!" And the Squire laughed in a way which shook the windows. Miss Lavinia smiled in a solemn manner, and busied herself about tea. Redbud turned to Mr.
Therefore, when Miss Redbud saw Verty approach, clad in his new costume, and radiant with happy expectation, she hastily left the window at which she had been standing, and, in the depths of her chamber, sought for strength and consolation. Let no one deride the innocent prayer of the child, and say that it was folly, and unworthy of her.
All the old doubt and embarrassment had now disappeared from Redbud's face; and Verty, too, was happy. They went on talking very quietly and pleasantly the fresh little face of Redbud lit up by her tender smile. "What are you gazing at?" said the young girl, smiling, as Verty's eye fixed itself upon the blue sky intently; "I don't see anything do you?" "Yes," said Verty, smiling too. "What?"
One of the two skiffs that rocked there usually was there now, swashing up and down in the current, but the other was gone. There was a strong eddy in front of Redbud. The bar, Singing Sand, and the Deerlick Rocks choked up the bed of the river and made the water dash vehemently through a narrow channel. Logs went by and branches of trees.
"Promise! certainly, Reddy; just ask me whatever you choose. If it's to cut off my head, or say I think Miss Sallianna pretty, I'll do it such is my devotion to you!" laughed Fanny. Redbud smiled. "Only promise me to amuse Verty, when he comes." "Amuse him!" "Yes." "What do you mean." "I mean," Redbud said, sighing, "that I don't think I shall be able to do so." "What!"
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