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The motive had touched Rodney Sherrett's love and manliness, just as this fine manoeuvrer, pulling wires whose ends laid hold of character, not circumstance, believed and meant. It had only added to the strength and loyalty of his purpose. She had looked deeper than a mere word-faithfulness in communicating to him what another might have deemed it wiser not to let him know.
"There was the overturn," she would say, by and by "and there was Rodney Sherrett's call because of that, and then his sister's because no doubt he asked her, and then their both coming together; and there was your pretty white polonaise, you know, the day they did come; and there was" Mrs. Argenter has not counted up to that yet.
He repeated presently his assurance that Amy and Aunt Euphrasia would come over to see them, and took himself off, saying that he knew he must have been horribly in the way all the time. The next morning, a light covered wagon, driven by Mr. Sherrett's man, Rodgers, came up the Turn.
It would suit the owner quite as well; the place would let readily. Sylvie was happy as she told her mother how nicely it had come out. She might have been less so, had she seen Mr. Sherrett's face when he read his agent's letter and replied to it in those three lines without moving from his seat. "I might have expected it," he said to himself. "She's a child after all. But she began so bravely!
She knew it all by heart, though she had never received but one scrap of it before, the card that had been tied to the ivy-plant, with Rodney Sherrett's name and compliments. She had heard nothing now of Rodney for two months. She was glad to be alone to wonder at this, to open it with fingers that trembled, to see what he could possibly have put into it for her.
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