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"I don't know who her father was," Mrs. Carleton went on. "Oh, her father was Major Ringgan," said Mrs. Evelyn. "I never saw him, but I have heard him spoken of in very high terms. I always heard that Amy married very well." "Major Ringgan!" said Mrs. Thorn; "his name is very well known; he was very distinguished." "He was a self-made man, entirely," said Mrs.
You know as well as I do how all this came about. I hoped to be able to pay you, but I haven't been able to make it out, without having more time." "Time!" said the other. "Time to cheat me out of a little more houseroom. If I was agoing to live on charity, Mr. Ringgan, I'd come out and say so, and not put my hand in a man's pocket this way.
Ringgan, as much of a child for the moment as Fleda herself, had lost everything disagreeable, and was in the full genial enjoyment of talk, rather listening than talking, with his cheeks in a perpetual dimple of gratification, and a low laugh of hearty amusement now and then rewarding the conversational and kind efforts of his guest with a complete triumph.
"It is very kind in aunt Lucy, isn't it, grandpa, what she has written to me?" "Why, no," said Mr. Ringgan, decidedly; "I can't say I think it is any very extraordinary manifestation of kindness in anybody to want you." Fleda smiled her thanks for this compliment. "It might be a kindness in me to give you to her." "It wouldn't be a kindness to me, grandpa."
Ringgan spoke, breaking as it were the silence and his seriousness with the same effort. "Well dear!" said he cheerfully, "what does she say?" "O she says a great many things, grandpa; shall I read yon the letter?" "No dear, I don't care to hear it; only tell me what she says." "She says they are going to stay in Paris yet a good while longer." "Hum!" said Mr. Ringgan.
"Because," said the doctor, "in that case I should have no higher gratification than in attending upon your motions. I a beg you to believe, my dear Miss Ringgan, that it would afford me the a most particular it would be most particularly grateful to me to wait upon you to a the confines of the world."
But such a face within side of it! She came almost dancing into the room. "This is Miss Ringgan! as she appeared when she was going to see the pine-trees. Hugh, don't you wish you had a picture of me?" "I have got a tolerable picture of you, somewhere," said Hugh. "This is somebody very different from the Miss Ringgan that went to see Mrs. Evelyn, I can tell you," Fleda went on, gaily.
"Shall I tell this gentleman, Miss Ringgan, who needs protection, and from what?" Fleda raised her head, and, putting her hand on his arm, looked a concentration of entreaty lips were sealed. "Will you give me," said he, gently taking the hand in his own, "your sign-manual for Captain Rossitur's security? It is not too late. Ask it of her, Sir."
"Shall I get out and go in, grandpa?" said Fleda when he drew up before the house. "No, deary," said he in his usual kind tone; "you sit still. Holloa there! Good-day, Mr. Sampion have you got any thing for me?" The man disappeared and came out again. "There's your paper, grandpa," said Fleda. "Ay, and something else," said Mr. Ringgan: "I declare!
But the black satin cloak preferred a straightforward manner of doing this, so their egress was somewhat delayed. Happily faintness was not the matter. "My dear Miss Ringgan!" said the doctor as they reached the ground and the outer air, "what was it? the stove too powerful? You are looking you are of a dreadfully delicate appearance!"
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