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Clementina felt the fascination, too; she thought the slippers were beautiful, and her foot thrilled with a mysterious prescience of its fitness for them. "Now, the'e, ladies, or as I may say guls, if you'll excuse it in one that's moa like a fatha to you than anything else, in his feelings" the girls tittered, and some one shouted derisively "It's true!"
Lander began as soon as she entered her room, "Well, I was just wonderin' if you was goin' to leave me here all day alone, while you staid down the'e, carryin' on with that simpleton. I don't know what's got into the men." "Mr. Hinkle has gone for the docta," said Clementina, trying to get into her voice the kindness she was trying to feel.
Lander was moved by the suggestion which he made in person afterwards; it appealed to her old nomadic instinct; but when the consul was gone she gave it up. "We couldn't git the'e, Clementina. I got to stay he'e till I git up my stren'th. I suppose you'd be glad enough to have me sta't, now the'e's nobody he'e but me," she added, suspiciously. "You git this scheme up, or him?"
"I mean," Clementina explained, "that if I let him think the religion was all the'e was, it wouldn't have been fai'a." "Why, weren't you sincere about that?" "Of cou'se I was!" returned the girl, almost indignantly. "But if the'e was anything else, I ought to have told him that, too; and I couldn't." "Then you can't tell me, of course?" Miss Milray rose in a little pique.
"No. But I thought you said that it was my duty to do what I wished." "Well, yes. That is what I said," Miss Milray consented. "But I supposed that you knew already." "No," said Clementina, candidly, "I don't believe I do." "And what if you don't see him?" "I guess I shall have to wait till I do. The'e will be time enough." Miss Milray sighed, and then she laughed. "You ARE young!"
"He must have had considerable experience in cases of the kind. Would your friends meet you in New York, or " "I don't know," said Clementina with a pang for the thought of a meeting she had sometimes fancied there, when her lover had come out for her, and her father had been told to come and receive them. "No," she sighed, "the'e wouldn't be time to let them know.
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