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She was too much ashamed of ever having had the idea to bear to recall it; and when Arthur explained, Percy shuddered, and exclaimed, 'No, I thank you, Violet! you knew enough against me; but you need not have thought me quite come to that! On the morrow, Percy came in as the children's lessons were concluded. He studied Theodora's face tenderly, and hoped that she had rested.
"You're fond of Ludovic, aren't you?" asked Anne, detecting a note of real bitterness among Theodora's paradoxes. "Laws, yes," said Theodora candidly. She did not think it worth while to blush over so settled a fact. "I think the world and all of Ludovic. And he certainly does need somebody to look after HIM. He's neglected he looks frayed. You can see that for yourself.
Allyn asked, at dinner, that noon. "The new man, when there are new men here, every day in the week!" Theodora's tone was one of amusement. "Evidently you didn't see him, or you'd speak with more respect. He was a duke in disguise, at the very least." "Do you mean the man with the Frenchy beard, and his nose in the air?" Cicely asked, with scant respect for the stranger's ducal appearance. "Yes.
The Speeds might be hard to get started, but once they were started their momentum was irresistible. When Theodora and Mr. Sherman came out, Ludovic was waiting on the steps. He stood up straight and stern, with his head thrown back and his shoulders squared. There was open defiance in the look he cast on his rival, and masterfulness in the mere touch of the hand he laid on Theodora's arm.
"We'll see about it, we'll see about it," he grunted; but his wife felt more hopeful, and was even unusually solicitous of his wants in the way of coffee and marmalade and cream. Josiah was shrewd if he did happen to be deeply self-absorbed in his health, and he noticed that Theodora's eyes were brighter and her step more elastic than usual.
And, though affectionate and almost craving pardon from Violet, drawing out from her every particular about the little ones, and asking much about Arthur's health, and Theodora's prospects, she left a veil over the matters that had so deeply concerned herself.
You haven't lost your old trick of asking questions. We are all well, and I left the mother alternately peering out of the front window of our house and punching up the pillows on the couch in your library." "And papa?" "Splendid, and covered with glory for his last operation on the Gaylord child. It is the talk of the town." Theodora's eyes flashed proudly. "Isn't he wonderful?
"I am sorry to be late," she panted; "but I had to stop to chastise Melchisedek. I found him asleep in Cousin Theodora's fernery. It was so soft and cool that I suppose it tempted him, this hot day, poor little man! But aren't you forcing the season, Babe?" Phebe looked down at her immaculate duck suit. "No; it is almost the first of June, and so warm.
This was their daily Practice for a considerable space, 'till at last a Confident of Theodora's who was sometimes admitted as variety in these Brutal Enjoyments, for a large Sum of Money reveal'd their Intrigues to Philetus, a Youth of a very comly Person, but a little Effeminate, who passionately admir'd the beautiful Theodora, and who had made several Attempts on her in vain.
Theodora's unassuming manner had disarmed them, and as savage beasts had been charmed of old by Orpheus and his lute, so perhaps her gentle voice had soothed this company the women, of course; there had been no question of the men from the beginning. Mildred's programme to make Mrs. Brown suffer was not having the success her zeal in promoting it deserved.
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