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"But will you tell him yourself, Thelma? Depend upon it, it's much better to have no secrets from him. The least grief of yours would affect him more than the downfall of a kingdom. You know how dearly he loves you!" "Yes I know!" she answered, and her eyes brightened slowly. "And that is why I wish him always to see me happy!"
They all rose, threw on their caps, and left the saloon with the exception of Errington, who lingered behind, watching his opportunity, and as Thelma followed her father he called her back softly "Thelma!" She hesitated, and then turned towards him, her father saw her movement, smiled at her, and nodded kindly, as he passed through the saloon doors and disappeared.
Eager as I was to get back to the Thelma with my good news, I could not get away till I had told the good old fellow how it had happened that I had rescued her, and he in return told me how young Burfield had rushed, muddy and dripping, into the inn as they were all going to bed, and demanded help in the search for his sister. No boat was to be had at the moment, and so they had shouted till Mr.
And it's all very well to stick up for the aristocracy; but why, in Heaven's name, can't some of the wealthiest among them do as much as our old Mac is doing, for the outcast and miserable poor? I see some real usefulness and good in his work, and I'll help him in it with a will when when Thelma comes back."
She seemed sincerely attached to Thelma, and Thelma herself, too single-hearted and simple to imagine that such affection could be feigned, gave her in return, what Lady Winsleigh had never succeeded in winning from any woman, a pure, trusting, and utterly unsuspecting love, such as she would have lavished on a twin-born sister.
Left alone, she sighed, and went slowly into the house to resume her spinning. Hearing the whirr of the wheel, the servant Britta entered. "You are not going in the boat, Froeken?" she asked in a tone of mingled deference and affection. Thelma looked up, smiled faintly, and shook her head in the negative. "It is late, Britta, and I am tired."
"Who would think he was such a hypocrite? Fancy his dividing his affection between two such contrasts as Thelma and Violet Vere! However, there's no accounting for tastes. As for man's fidelity, I wouldn't give a straw for it and for his morality !" She finished the sentence with a scornful laugh, and left the boudoir to return to the rest of the company.
At that moment Morris appeared with the tea, and handed it to Sir Francis, Thelma took none, and as the servant retired, she quietly resumed her occupation. There was a short silence, only broken by the hum of the wheel. Sir Francis sipped his tea with a meditative air, and studied the fair woman before him as critically as he would have studied a picture.
"Is it possible that you have seen her?" "Ah, George, what do you say now?" cried Errington delightedly. "Yes, yes, Valdemar; the Froeken Thelma, as you call her. Who is she? . . . What is she? and how can there be no pretty girls in Bosekop if such a beautiful creature as she lives there?" Valdemar looked troubled and vexed. "Truly, I thought not of the maiden," he said gravely.
Her husband remained unmoved. "May I see the voucher for this box?" he inquired. "I've sent it to some friends," replied her ladyship haughtily. "Since when have you decided to become an inquisitor, my lord?" "Lady Winsleigh," said Philip suddenly and eagerly, "will you swear to me that you have said or done nothing to make my Thelma leave me?"
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