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"When we were young," Miss La Sarthe remarked severely, "our Mamma would never have allowed us to know any divorced person and, indeed, our good Queen Victoria would never have received one at her Court. We cannot possibly call, Roberta." Poor Miss Roberta's face fell. She had been secretly much elated by the thoughts of a neighbor, and to have all her hopes thus nipped in the bud was painful.
Carlyon was now on the most friendly terms with both old ladies, and as well as coming to the monthly dinner, sometimes dropped in to tea on Sunday afternoons, but he knew this was a real party and must be treated as such. How agreeable it felt to be once more in the world, Miss Roberta thought, and her faded pale cheeks flushed a delicate pink.
He laid his plans, and when the last strains of "Roses Red" were hastening to a delirious finish he had Roberta at the far end of the room, at a point fairly deserted and close to one of the gable corners where rugs and chairs made a resting-place half hidden by a screen of holly. "Please give me just a fraction of your time," he begged.
Next morning Roberta woke Phyllis by pulling her hair gently, but quite enough for her purpose. "Wassermarrer?" asked Phyllis, still almost wholly asleep. "Wake up! wake up!" said Roberta. "We're in the new house don't you remember? No servants or anything. Let's get up and begin to be useful. We'll just creep down mouse-quietly, and have everything beautiful before Mother gets up.
"Please don't be sarcastic," laughed Betty, for Roberta's belongings were all as trim and tailor-made as herself. "How did you get your cold?" "Why K. and I got caught in a miserable little snow flurry," explained Roberta, pulling the pink shawl closer, "and I got my feet wet. My throat's horribly sore. It won't be well for a week, and I can't try for the play."
From him I learned that the Roberta was bound for Oomoa, a port of that Island. That I had not been given the vaguest idea what our first landfall would be was indicative of the secrecy maintained by these traders in the competition for copra.
Not all his efforts at establishing a successful career in the world of achievement could touch her imagination as did the knowledge of his brotherly kindness toward the unfortunate. That was what meant most to Roberta, in a world which she had early discovered to be a hard place for the greater part of its inhabitants.
Twice had the devices of this stupid-looking wooden peg of a negro girl stopped Lawrence Croft in the path he was following in his pursuit of Roberta March.
What abominable luck! Roberta was laughing as his eyes met hers. The gay curve of her lips recalled to him one of the things Ted had said about her, concerning a certain boyish quality in her makeup, and he was strongly tempted to tell her of it. But he resisted. "I can see you two are great chums," said he. "I envy you both your afternoon, clear through to the corn-popping."
Dis my fust inderpendent comman', an' ef yer hadn't tole me dis I might a' los' all I gained. Be faithful, Zeb; keep yer eyes an' ears open, an' I'll take care ob yer. Now slip back, fer yer might be missed." "I got back to my lof' mighty sudden, an' I was jis' a-shakin' wid fear, for I beliebe dat Missy Roberta would a' killed me wid her own hands ef she'd knowed.
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