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As each looked away again, each saw that for the first time Vida Levering had become aware of his presence. A change passed over her face, and her figure swayed as if some species of mountain-sickness had assailed her, looking down from that perilous high perch of hers upon the things of the plain. While the people were asking one another, 'What is it?
All that she had to say was true and significant enough. But it was no use. They jeered and howled her down for pure pleasure in her misery. She trembled and lost her thread. She very nearly cried. Vida wondered that the little chairwoman didn't fly to the rescue. But Ernestine sat quite unmoved looking in her lap. 'Lamentable exhibition! said Borrodaile, moving about uneasily.
"Our language may not be as elastic as yours, Don Fernando, but it is a good deal more sincere. And it can express as much and perhaps " "You love Benicia?" interrupted Altimira, fiercely. "I admire the Señorita Ortega tremendously. But I have seen her twice only, and although we may love longer, we take more time to get there, perhaps, than you do." "Ay! Dios de mi vida!
Devoutly thankful at having escaped from her compromising position unrecognized, Mrs. Fox-Moore firmly declined to go 'awskin' fur the vote' again! When Vida gave up her laughing remonstrance, Mrs. Fox-Moore thought her sister had also given up the idea.
But she hazily wanted some one to whom she could say what she thought. On a slow afternoon when she fidgeted over sewing and wished that the telephone would ring, Bea announced Miss Vida Sherwin.
In a week Major Wutherspoon was made full manager of the Bon Ton. Harry Haydock was going to devote himself to the half-dozen branch stores which he was establishing at crossroads hamlets. Harry would be the town's rich man in the coming generation, and Major Wutherspoon would rise with him, and Vida was jubilant, though she was regretful at having to give up most of her Red Cross work.
I say, because' Vida nodded at Lord Borrodaile 'you must know Ernestine is a beguiler. 'Oh, a beguiler. I didn't suppose 'No, it's against the tradition, I know, but it's true. She herself, however, doesn't seem to realize her beguilingness.
She had turned away definitely this time. 'Well, said Borrodaile, a little mocking, 'what is it? 'I don't know, she answered. 'I don't know what it is that seizes hold of me after I've been chattering like this for an hour or more. Borrodaile bent his head, and glanced past Vida to the abandoned minister. 'Console me by saying a slight weariness. 'More like loathing.
Dios de mi vida! but it was terrible to grow old! Not since the death of her husband, Don Carlos, had she endured so bitter a pang. The fact that she had never had any children accounted perhaps for a certain harshness in her nature. It was a busy day for the Señora.
Freddy shook her head quite seriously, and said, "To think of a being like Vida not even a citizen." 'I'm not a citizen? exclaimed the lady, laughing down at her sister over the banisters. 'Does she think because I've lived abroad I've forfeited my rights of 'No, all she means is Oh, you know the bee she's got in her bonnet.
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