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Updated: June 10, 2025
Young ladies always begin to converse very loud when visitors arrive for what reason has not yet been discovered. Verty's absent look in the direction of Fanny's face might very well have been considered the stare of a lover. "Do you doubt any longer?" "Oh, no!" "Then, Mr. Ashley " "Yes, madam." "In future you will " "Care nothing for " "The person "
Redbud even, at Verty's request, essayed one of the old Scottish songs which he was fond of; and the gentle carol filled the evening with its joy and musical delight. This was rather dangerous in Verty surely he was quite enough in love already! Why should he rivet the fetters, insist upon a new set of shackles, and a heavier chain!
And Verty raised his head, and looked round him with terror. His eye fell upon Mr. Rushton, who, breathing heavily, his looks riveted to his face, his lips trembling, seemed to control some overwhelming emotion by a powerful effort. The lawyer rose, and laid his hand upon Verty's shoulder it trembled. "You are dreaming ," he gasped. Suddenly, a brilliant flash darted from his eye.
"How red the maples grow!" he said, "they are burning away and the dogwood! Poor oaks! I'm sorry for you; you are going, and I think you look like kings going? That was what Redbud said! She was going away going away!" And a sigh issued from Verty's lips, which betrayed the importance he attached to Redbud's departure. Then his head drooped; and he murmured "going away!" Poor Verty!
Verty's face drooped upon his hand, and with the other hand, which held the letter, hanging down at the side of his chair, he sighed profoundly. He remained thus, buried in thought, for some time, Roundjacket gazing at him in silence. He was aroused by something pulling at the letter, which turned to be Longears, who was biting Miss Sallianna's epistle in a literary way, and this aroused him.
The young man, as we have said, had once more donned his rude forest costume; and even at the risk of appearing to undervalue the graces and attractions of civilization with the costume, which is a necessary part thereof, we must say that the change was an improvement. Verty's figure, in the dress which he generally wore, was full of picturesqueness and wild interest.
But he could not have reproduced the wild, fine picture; for in Verty's face was that dim and dreamy smile which neither pencil nor words can describe on paper or canvas. At last he roused himself, and waked to the real life around him though his thoughtful eyes were still overshadowed. He looked around. He had never been alone in Mr.
"Now I have it," he said; and suddenly seeing the double meaning of his words, the young man added, with a blush and a smile, "it is all I want in the world." "What? the oh!" And Miss Redbud, suddenly aware of Mr. Verty's meaning, finds her voice rather unsafe, and her cheeks covered with blushes.
For a moment the image of Redbud rose before him, and he sighed. He knew not why, but he wished that he was not an Indian he wished that his blood had been that of the whites. His sad face drooped; then his eyes ware raised, and he saw the old woman weeping. The sight removed from Verty's mind all personal considerations, and he leaned his head upon her knee, and pressed her hand to his lips.
Roundjacket's face assumed an expression of dastardly guilt, and he avoided Verty's eye. "Lavinia!" he murmured. At the same moment a diminutive footman gave a rousing stroke with the knocker, and delivered into the hands of the old woman, who opened the door, a glass dish of delicacies such as are affected by sick persons.
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