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You can do no better than stay in your present quarters for at least a week or so, until you fully recover from your mad frolic on the water and gain a little strength." "Where am I?" asked Daisy, "and how did I get here? and who lives here?" "One question at a time, if you please," laughed Stanwick, gazing admiringly at the beautiful, questioning, eager face.
The consternation and excitement which prevailed at the Burton Cottage when Daisy's absence was discovered can better be imagined than described; or the intense anger of Stanwick upon finding Daisy had eluded him. "Checkmated!" he cried, white to the very lips. "But she shall not escape me; she shall suffer for this freak. I am not a man to be trifled with.
Why had he not returned? What was detaining him? Suppose anything should happen it would kill her now yet nothing could go wrong on the eve of her wedding-day. She would not believe it. Stanwick would not dare go to Rex with such a story he would write it and all those things took time.
"Au revoir, my love, but not farewell," he said, lightly, "until we meet to be parted nevermore," and, with a quick, springy step Lester Stanwick walked rapidly down the clover-bordered path on his fatal errand. In the distance the little babbling brook sung to her of peace and rest beneath its curling, limpid waters.
It will come in time; I can wait for it." "You will never make me love you," cried Daisy, covering her face with her hands; "do not hope it and the more you talk to me the less I like you. I wish you would go away." "I shall not despair," said Stanwick, with a confident smile.
Early that morning she was walking, after breakfast, in the park at Nettlegrove when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned, and found herself face to face with one of her suitors at Maplesworth. I am informed that there is no necessity now for my suppressing the name. The gentleman was Captain Stanwick. He was so fearfully changed for the worse that she hardly knew him again.
When you are well and strong you may go where you please, although I frankly own the situation is by no means an unpleasant one for me. I would be willing to stay here always with you." "Sir!" cried Daisy, flushing as red as the climbing roses against the window, her blue eyes blazing up with sudden fire, "do you mean to insult me?" "By no means," responded Lester Stanwick, eagerly.
On all ordinary occasions the most retiring, the most feminine of women, she now walked up to Captain Stanwick and looked him full in the face, without flinching for an instant. "You appear to have forgotten that you are speaking in the presence of two ladies," she said. "Alter your tone, sir, or I shall be obliged to take my niece out of the room."
He is the wealthiest man of the two; and it speaks volumes for him, in my opinion, that he has preserved his simplicity of character after a long residence in such places as Paris and Vienna. Captain Stanwick has more polish and ease of manner, but, looking under the surface, I rather fancy there may be something a little impetuous and domineering in his temper. However, we all have our faults.
Lucy would have considerable property when he died; he'd like her to have all the advantages possible; and very suddenly Calvin decided to send her away to school, to Stanwick, the small city to and from which the Greenstream stage drove. She returned from her first term at Christmas, full of her experiences with teachers and friends, to which Ettie and he listened with absorbed attention.
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