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Monica may be in the greatest danger, and we are the only ones who know anything about the matter, and can save her." The tea-bell ringing at that moment sent them down to the dining-hall.
"That is right," he said, caressing her again. "But there is the tea-bell," he added, setting her down. "Go into the dressing-room there, and bathe your eyes, and then come to me." She hastened to do his bidding, and then taking her hand he led her down and seated her in her usual place by his side.
"Well, John," she returned, as he seemed to hesitate. "Have we arranged everything?" "Everything! And you have been home three hours." "Three and a half, if you please; it is now six o'clock." "Then the tea-bell will ring." "No; I told Deborah to ring at seven to-night." "She will think you are putting on the airs of the master." "Don't you think it is about time? Or, it will be at half past six."
The tea-bell now rang, and Gregory obeyed its summons in a very perplexed state. His manner was rather absent during the meal, but Annie seemed to take pains to be kind and reassuring. The day, so far from being a restraint, appeared one of habitual cheerfulness, which even the dreary storm without could not dampen.
"Well, then we will put on the shoes and stockings again," he said pleasantly, "and then you must bathe your eyes, and go to your supper; and, as soon as the others retire, you may come back to me." Elsie had to make haste, for the tea-bell rang almost immediately.
Then the tea-bell rang, and they came up to the rose garden, where Mrs. French broke off several partly opened buds and pinned them on the little girl's bodice. The dining-room windows opened on the porch, and they walked in that way. It had a great beaufet with carved shelves and brackets going nearly up to the ceiling, and full of the most curious articles Hanny had ever seen.
"Do you know," continued Mrs. Purcell, "what makes the Laudersdale so gay? No? She has a letter from her lord, and he brings you that little Rite next week. I must send for the Colonel to see such patterns of conjugal felicity as you and she. Ah, there is the tea-bell!" Mr. Raleigh was standing with one hand on the back of his chair, when Mrs. Laudersdale entered.
Jones looked at his firm and determined little assailant with some alarm, slowly tucked up the sleeves of his coat, turned white and red, and didn't return the blow. The tea-bell beginning to ring at that moment gave him a convenient excuse for breaking off the altercation.
Before she could finish the sentence Edith heard the warning tinkle of the tea-bell, and sprang up suddenly, exclaiming: "Good-by, Mrs. good-by, madam, I must go now. You've been very kind, thank you. Good-by." And out of the door and away she skipped, leaving her hostess, who had not heard the bell, to wonder at her haste.
Oswald spent the whole afternoon there. He happened to have a volume of Percy's Anecdotes in his pocket, the one about lawyers, as well as a few apples. While he read he fingered the cricket ball, and presently it rolled away, and he thought he would get it by-and-by. When the tea-bell rang he forgot the ball and went hurriedly down, for apples do not keep the inside from the pangs of hunger.
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