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The viper!" cried Miss Sallianna, becoming hysterical, and addressing her observations to the ceiling; "the viper which I warmed in my bosom, and who turns and rents me." Which was very ungallant in the viper not to say extraordinary, as it implied that vipers dwelt in houses "to let."
"Who seems to me the concentration of folly and everything of that description no, madam! In future I will carefully avoid her!" And with this ambiguous speech, Mr. Ralph rose, begged Miss Sallianna to excuse him for a short time, and making her a low and devoted bow, took his way into the garden, and toward the spot where Fanny and Verty were sitting. Fanny complimented Mr.
Jinks' rage, and he replied: "This momentary anger is over, sir I forgive, that young man Sallianna! beautiful Sallianna! for thy sake!" But overcome with nerves, and the revulsion produced by this change in affairs, the beautiful Sallianna's head drooped upon one shoulder, her eyes were closed, and her arms were extended towards Mr. Jinks.
"Mimicking Miss Sallianna." "Not right!" "No, indeed." "Well, I suppose it is not, and I have been treating her very badly. Suppose I take your wreath of yellow primroses and carry them to her." "Oh, yes if you want to," said Redbud, looking regretfully at the wreath, which she had taken from her brow. Fanny laughed. "No, I will not," she said; "I have a good reason." "What?"
We need not say that the notable scheme suggested by Miss Sallianna namely, his making love to some one else to try Redbud had never crossed the ingenuous mind of the young man. From that pure mirror the obscuring breath soon disappeared. He did not wish to try Redbud he loved her too much; and now he remained silent gazing after her, and wholly unconscious of the existence of Miss Fanny.
Miss Lavinia listened with some interest to this peroration. "If we could live far from the vain world of man " The solemn head indicated a coincidence of opinion. "If we could but dedicate ourselves wholly to the care of our little flock, we should be felicitous," continued Miss Sallianna. "But, alas! they will come to see us, madam, and we cannot exclude the dangerous enemy.
And subsiding gracefully upon the sofa, Miss Sallianna made Verty sit by her, and even gently moved her fan before his face, smiling and simpering. Perhaps the reader may feel some surprise at the change in Miss Sallianna's demeanor toward the young man, the fact of whose existence she had scarcely noticed on the occasion of their first meeting in the garden.
The hysterics did not last long.. Miss Sallianna had a large and useful assortment of feminine weapons of this description, and was proficient in the use of all from the embarrassed, simpering laugh and maiden blush, with down-cast eyes, raised suddenly, at times, toward the "beloved object," then abased again to the more artistic and effective weapons of female influence, tears, sobs, convulsions, hysterics and the rest.
Verty saw that this tragic gesture indicated a determination which could not be disputed. He therefore put on his hat, and having now caught sight of Fanny and Redbud, bowed to his companion, and went into the garden. Miss Sallianna gasped, and sinking into a chair, fell into violent hysterics, in which numerous allusions were made to vipers. Poor Verty!
Alas! the name, at the foot of the manuscript, was not "Redbud" it was "Sallianna!" And so, when the young man's hopes were overturned, the bright flash of his clear eye was veiled in mist again, and his hand fell, with a gesture of discouragement, which Roundjacket found no difficulty in understanding.
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