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Laying Thelma gently down upon the very couch her dead father had so lately occupied, she sent the distracted Valdemar out to gather fresh pine-logs for the fire, and then busied herself in bringing down Thelma's own little bed from the upper floor, airing it with methodical care, and making it as warm and cosy as a bird's-nest.
Every costume looked tawdry beside her richly flowing velvet draperies every low bodice became indecent compared with the modesty of that small square opening at Thelma's white throat an opening just sufficient to display her collar of diamonds and every figure seemed either dumpy and awkward, too big or too fat, or too lean and too lanky when brought into contrast with her statuesque outlines.
As he was about to consider this point reflectively, Errington entered, equipped for travelling, and whip in hand. His imagination had been at work during the past few minutes, exaggerating all the horrors and difficulties of Thelma's journey to the Altenfjord, till he was in a perfect fever of irritable excitement. "Come on Lorimer!" he cried. "There's no time to lose!
"Another time!" he screamed loudly; "no, no! Now now! Die, robber of Thelma's love! Die die die!" Repeating these words like quick gasps of fury, he twisted his meager arms tightly round Errington, and thrust him fiercely with all his might towards the edge of the Fall.
Therefore she was compelled to rely on the efficacy of one simple remedy, a herbal drink to allay fever, the virtues of which she had been taught in her youth, this, and the healing mercies of mother Nature together with the reserved strength of her own constitution, were the threads on which Thelma's life hung. Time passed on and yet there was no news from Sir Philip.
As for his last remark why! she had read all Zola's novels in the secrecy of her own room, and had gloated over them; no words could describe her intense admiration of books that were so indelicately realistic! "He is jealous of other writers, I suppose," she thought; "these literary people hate each other like poison." Meanwhile Thelma's blue eyes looked puzzled.
Though, for my part, I don't believe in the brittleness of hearts they seem to me to be made of exceptionally tough material. However, if the fair Thelma's heart cracks ever so widely, I think I can undertake to mend it!" Clara shrugged her shoulders. "You!" she exclaimed contemptuously. He stroked his moustache with feline care and nicety.
Here her two sparkling wet eyes peeped out of the apron inquiringly, and seeing nothing but the sweetest affection on Thelma's attentive face, she went on more steadily. "He p-pinched my cheek, and he laughed and he said he would rather have me for your maid than anybody there!"
In a few more days Thelma's engagement to Sir Philip Bruce-Errington was the talk of the neighborhood. The news spread gradually, having been, in the first place, started by Britta, whose triumph in her mistress's happiness was charming to witness. It reached the astonished and reluctant ears of the Reverend Mr.
The old insidious feeling of depression returned and hovered over Thelma's mind like a black bird of ill omen, and though she did her best to shake it off she could not succeed.
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