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Serena's hands struck the desk and she rose so abruptly that her husband had scarce time to get out of her way. "Serena," he cried. But Serena cut him short. "Go away," she commanded. "Go away and leave me. I don't want to speak to you again." "But, Serena " "Go away. Don't come near me again to-night. Go, go, GO!" And Daniel went, slowly, reluctantly.
Now hurry, Betty, and don't keep Serena waiting." "If it's so that you really want to go, Miss Betty." "I do, indeed, Miss Serena," responded Betty with great spirit, and off she ran up-stairs, while her aunt hurried to find something to send by way of remembrance, not only to Serena's sister Sarah, but to Seth's mother, who lived two miles this side.
He commented on its ambiguous phraseology, sent the message to the jury for inspection, and resumed his chair. "Lennox Dunbar." Sister Serena's knitting fell from her fingers; Dyce groaned audibly, and Judge Dent, sitting quite near, uttered a heavy sigh.
Now you bear that in your mind." Betty glanced at old Serena, and saw two great tears slowly running down her faded cheek. She was much moved by the sad little story, and Serena's pretty friend and the pink roses.
"Let us go back, dear man. For it belongs to me and I belong to it. In the name of my art I must try conclusions with it. I must play to it, and conquer it, and enchant, and possess it, since I am free at last I am free." Serena's manner, though gracious, was lofty, almost regal. She had, indeed, lately looked upon crowned heads, and the glory of them seemed, somehow, to have rubbed off on her.
Serena's mind was too much occupied with politics and political ambition to dwell upon less important matters. "I suppose it is all right," she said. "If he was a thief he should be discharged, of course. No doubt you did right, Daniel, but we shall miss him dreadfully. I don't know where we can get another butler like him." Daniel gasped.
I nodded approvingly to the dear girl for her nice thought. Madame's pocket handkerchief was in requisition, while Schillie, who seemed to favour Serena's remarks with more attention than any of the others, said, "Call it any name you like, my dear child, if it gives you the smallest pleasure; only you will see house it is, and house it will be called, until a hurricane blows it down."
Now we come back to where we began this chapter, the early morning of the next day, and Serena's and Letty's bustling in the pantry to have a basket of luncheon ready, so that the boating party need not lose the tide; the boating party itself at breakfast in the dining-room; Mary Beck in a transport of delight sitting by her window at the other side of the street, all ready to rush out the minute she saw Betty appear.
He wished she would see fit to move aside and let him pass. "You will get cold standing here," he said. "You must not let me detain you any longer." Serena's eyes snapped. She was excited. She was also slightly offended. "He is very abrupt," she said to herself; but she did not move aside and let him pass. "Yes, he is abrupt," she repeated; "still, he has a very good manner.
At times, Sister Serena's hand forsook the knitting, to lay a soft, caressing touch of encouragement and sympathy on the girl's shoulder; and Dyce's burning indignation vented itself in frequent audible grating of her strong white teeth.
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