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"If anybody asks me," answered Leslie, with brave simplicity. "I like dancing very much." "I'll find you a partner, then," said Mr. Wharne. She looked up, surprised; but he was quite in earnest.
I'd rather be a gentleman!" said Dakie Thayne. "You've got the best of it!" This came from Marmaduke Wharne, as the door closed upon the boy, and the stage rolled down the road toward Cherry Mountain. There is a "best" to be got out of everything; but it is neither the best of place or possession, nor the chuckle of the last word.
The two had already made up their minds to be friends. In fact, Master Thayne would hardly have acquiesced in being led up for introduction to any other young girl in the room. There had been something in Leslie Goldthwaite's face that had looked kind and sisterly to him. He had no fear of a snub with her; and these things Mr. Wharne had read, in his behalf, as well.
Just as she had come one morning, weeks ago; and it was the identical "fresh petticoat" of that morning she wore now. The sudden coincidence and recollection struck Sin Saxon as she spoke. To her surprise, Miss Craydocke and Marmaduke Wharne moved quickly toward each other, and grasped hands like old friends. "Then you know all about it!"
"I'll be responsible for the name," answered Marmaduke Wharne. "'Dakie' is a nickname, of course; but they always call me so, and I like it best," the boy was explaining to Leslie, while they waited in the doorway. Then her turn came. Leslie had never looked through a telescope upon the stars before. She forgot the galop, and the piano tinkled out its gayest notes unheard.
Leslie Goldthwaite rather wished old Marmaduke Wharne would come back again and say more. But this first glimpse of him was all they got to-night. "Blown crystal clear by Freedom's northern wind."
Marmaduke Wharne watched it all with that keen glance of his that was like a level line of fire from under the rough, gray brows. "I am glad you saw that," said Leslie Goldthwaite, watching also, and watching him. "By the light of your own little text, 'kind, and bright, and pleasant'? You think it will do me good?"
She would not have cared, if she had known, that Imogen Thoresby was looking for her within, to present, at his own request, the cavalry captain. She did not know in the least, absorbed in her pure enjoyment, that Marmaduke Wharne was deliberately trying her, and confirming his estimate of her, in these very things. She danced her galop with Dakie Thayne, after she went back.
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