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Every day, nearly, saw Paul, or Margaret, or both, at Cross Corners. Faith was often, also, at Lakeside. Old Mr. Rushleigh treated her with a benignant fatherliness, and looked upon her with an evident fondness and pride that threw heavy weight in the scale of his son's chances. And Madam Rushleigh, as she began to be called, since Mrs.
Margaret came over with Madam Rushleigh, and felicitated herself and friend, impetuously. Paul's mother thanked her for making her son happy. Old Mr. Rushleigh kissed her forehead with a blessing. And Mr. and Mrs. Gartney looked upon their daughter as with new eyes of love. Hendie rode the black horse every day, and declared that "everything was just as jolly as it could be!"
The next half hour, that happened which drove even this thought utterly from Faith's mind. Paul Rushleigh came.
The matter has been very carefully thought out. You could not serve under Rushleigh, nor could he serve under you. But you could both be invaluable members of a Cabinet of which I was the nominal head.
I remember my own youth, Faithie. Pure, present content is seldom overwise." "Only," said Faith, still tremblingly, "that the responsibility comes with the good. That feeling of having one's hand upon the mainspring is a fearful one." "I am not given," said Mr. Rushleigh, "to quoting Bible at all times; but you make a line of it come up to me. 'There is no fear in love.
Paul Rushleigh had finished his college course, and was to go abroad this winter between the weddings, as he said for his brother Philip's was to take place in the coming spring. After that things were not quite settled, but something was to be arranged for him meanwhile he would have to begin his work in the world; and then he supposed it would be time for him to find a helpmate.
Rushleigh to Kate Livingston, who stood with his son Philip, and whose bridal, it was well known, was to come next? Jewels, and silver, and gold, are such flashing, concrete evidences of love! And the courtly condescension of an old and world-honored man to the young girl whom his son has chosen, is such a winning and distinguishing thing!
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