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The slight movement transmitted itself through her whole figure, and for an instant each beautiful line and curve quivered and was very slightly modified. Logotheti saw and drew his breath sharply between his teeth. 'Yes, Margaret was saying impatiently. 'When Mrs. Rushmore had told me the truth, I walked to the station and took the first train. I only stopped to get Madame De Rosa.
The fire crept nearer every second, stifling them with its pungent smoke. Other scouts, some with long axes, others with belt axes, followed Jeb Rushmore, chopping down the small trees which he indicated along the path made by this human line. In less than a minute fifty or more scouts were working desperately felling trees along the path.
"Guess we'll cut out yarns to-night," said Jeb Rushmore, "and hike out on a little tour of inspection." "There are a couple of tramps in the woods this side of the cut, right up the hill a ways," said Tom. "We need rain, that's sure," said another scout. "Maybe we'll get some with this wind," remarked another. "No, I reckon it's a dry wind," said Mr. Rushmore, looking about and sniffing audibly.
Sham lions love to talk about themselves, and to excite curiosity, but real ones resent questions about their doings as they would resent a direct insult. Mrs. Rushmore knew that, too. She was really sorry to lose him, however, and had counted on his staying at least a week longer.
Rushmore was not easily startled by the sudden appearance of lions or lionesses and was conscious of being tolerably consecutive in her speech. It was not Madame Bonanni's greatness that had taken her by surprise, but her size and momentum. The prima donna answered in French. 'You understand? Of course! Thank you! Then I will speak in my own language. I will go out to Miss Donne, if you permit.
'I am alone, she said severely, a little as if warning him not to take liberties. 'My errand concerns a matter in which we have common interests at stake, he said. Mrs. Rushmore sat down on a garden chair, and pointed to the bench, on which he took his seat. 'I cannot imagine what interests you mean, she said, with dignity. 'Pray explain.
'Or else, continued Mrs. Rushmore with crushing logic, 'he means to live on you when you've made your fortune by singing. It must be one or the other, and if it isn't the one, it's certainly the other. Certainly it is! You may say what you like. So that's settled, and I've warned you. You can't afford to despise your old friend's warning, Margaret indeed you can't.
'There are some very bad puns in Aristophanes, observed the archæologist thoughtfully. 'Why don't you go to Crete? he inquired very suddenly of Mrs. Rushmore. Mrs. Rushmore, who did not happen to have heard of the recent discoveries yet, felt a little as if the young man had asked her why she did not go to Jericho.
They felt that Jeb Rushmore had the right idea and they were thrilled at the tragic possibilities of that ominous sentence, "He see it were best to go." The whole troop was down at the boathouse to see the boys off.
It was very pleasant to delude herself with the idea that Margaret was almost her daughter, and she wished she could adopt her; but Margaret was far too independent to accept such an arrangement, and Mrs. Rushmore had the common-sense to guess that if the girl were bound to her in any way a sort of restraint would follow which would be disagreeable to both in the end.
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