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Captain Dan ran downstairs, entered the library, seized the letters from the table and hastened to hand them to the carrier. "Daddy!" called Gertrude from above, "did you post my letter?" "Sure!" was the prompt answer. "Just gave it to the mail man. It's on the road now." Serena's "nerves" were in much better condition the following day, and her spirits likewise.
So the captain, his hopes somewhat dashed, but finding comfort in his wife's new longing to visit the one spot on earth which spelled home to him, left the room to carry Serena's message to their daughter. He was busy at the desk in the library when, several hours later, Gertrude entered. She was wearing her hat and coat and, coming into the library, stood beside him. He looked up.
Leaning from the window, he was staring with all his might. Serena's impatience got the better of her. "Well? WELL?" she burst forth. "What does it look like? Do say something!" The captain drew back into the carriage. "My soul!" he exclaimed presently. "Look, Serena." Serena looked, and her look was a long one. Then, her face flushed and her eyes shining, she turned to her husband. "Oh!
Serena's attitude of reproachful and self-sacrificing forgiveness he met with meek repentance and promises not to offend again. He got into bed, worn out and troubled, but with a ray of hope in his bosom, nevertheless. Gertie had come home; Gertie was going to do something or other, he did not know and could not guess what. At any rate she was with him, and he could see her every day.
Farther on, there is a beautiful grotto, called "Serena's Arbour," the walls of which are covered with a drapery resembling yellow satin, falling in graceful folds, while through it murmurs a rivulet, which makes its way to one of the many rivers running through the cavern. In another, on the torches being extinguished it appears as if stars innumerable were glittering in the sky.
Jonathan was already at the house, impatient to be on his way home, and Serena's bonnet was just being taken down from its nail as Betty came in. It seemed too bad to leave sister Sarah behind, but then she had all the piece-bags for company, as Serena said.
Of the Japanese Spaniels which have recently been prominent in competition, may be mentioned Miss Serena's Champion Fuji of Kobe, a remarkably beautiful bitch, who was under 5 lb. in weight, and who in her brief life gained six full championships. Mrs. Gregson's Ch.
"Shall I show you about the establishment, madam?" he asked. Serena's composure was a triumph. An inexperienced observer might have supposed she had been accustomed to butlers and establishments all her life. "Yes," she said loftily, "you can show us." Mr. Hapgood was a person of wide experience; however, he merely bowed and led the way. Serena followed him, and Captain Dan followed Serena.
The family consisted of four persons. Serena's brother, a young gentleman of nineteen, articled to a solicitor in the town, was accustomed to appear at meals, but seldom deigned to devote any more of his leisure to the domestic circle. After luncheon to-day, as he stood at the window with a sporting newspaper, his mother addressed him. "We have company this evening, Raglan.
Lovegrove said judicially, "too solitary, and that tells on any one in middle life. I should never forgive myself if we left him to mope. You must just try to coax him over here to stay, Georgie, and I'll nurse him up and humour him, and fortunately Serena's here, you see, for pleasant company." Mrs. Lovegrove looked meaningly at her spouse, while the figure at the window again rustled.
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