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Updated: September 11, 2025
She looked up at him with her tearful dark eyes, and clutched eagerly at the lapel of his coat. "Mr. Blake! He has told me how resolute you are. You must not give up! I'm certain Vievie likes you. If only mamma hadn't meddled! She's always messing things. It's just because she can't realize I'm in long frocks.
As the party emerged from the gateway the younger lady leaned forward and spoke in a clear soft voice: "Turn to the left, Tom." The big man in the lead swerved out of the crowd and across the corner past Miss Gantry, who was advancing with outstretched arms, her eyes sparkling with joyous excitement. "Vievie!" she half shrieked.
Ashton shrugged, lighted a gilt-tipped cigarette, and asked: "Permit me to inquire, Miss Gon-tray, if I'm not the happy man for whom you wait, who is?" She replied without turning: "How can I tell until I see him? I think it will be the hero. If not, it will be the earl." "Hero? earl?" repeated Ashton. "Yes, whichever one Vievie leaves for me." "What! Genevieve? Miss Leslie?
"You're laughing at me!" accused the girl. "To make up for it, you'll have to come and hold my prayer-book for me. Just think! a real hero to hold my prayer-book!" "Excuse me!" objected Blake. "I don't know the places." "Never mind. We can study the styles quite as well. Vievie, let's hurry on. Mamma has gone up to rout out Uncle Herbert. They'll be late as usual."
If she doesn't take the hero, she'll accept the earl. Ah, me! To think you're still scheming to get Vievie, when all the evening you've pretended it was I!" In the reaction from his fright, he sprang up and advanced on her ardently. "It is you, Dodie! you know it is. Own up, now we're just suited to each other. It's a case of soul-mates!" "Oh, is it, really?" she gushed.
Of course Earl Jimmy's mustache is simply too cute for anything, but, alas! unless Vievie clings to her heroic Tommy " "Tommyrot!" sniffed Mrs. Gantry. "The presumption of that low fellow! To think of his following her to America!" "You should have forewarned the authorities at Ellis Island, and had him excluded as dangerous to your plans." "No more of this frivolity!
We must do something at once!" "If anything can be done!" said Lord James in a hopeless tone. "You say he took it deliberately?" "Yes. Can't you see? Mamma had stuffed him with a lot of rot about gratitude about Vievie sacrificing herself to him on account of gratitude. It's easy enough to guess mamma's little game. Oh! it's simply terrible!
Before Genevieve could reach the others, Lord James and Dolores came toward her, and Dolores cried out the joyful news: "It's safe, Vievie! the bridge is safe now! Mr. Blake will be ashore in a few minutes." "You're sure, James?" asked Genevieve. "Quite safe? and he ?" "Yes, yes, give you my word! Perfectly safe now, he said, and he'll be coming soon.
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