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The girl, discomfited, slunk away; and for ten minutes there was absolute silence. Then the woman, laying her hand on Cecile's shoulder, said very softly: "My dear, you have a little money about you?" "Yes," answered the child. "I feared so. You must come away from here at once. I can protect you from Peggie. But she has accomplices who'll come presently. You'd not have a penny in the morning.
He would come for her in a few minutes. She was wondering very much how exactly she would appear to him, how old, how good-looking or plain. She had tried, with Cecile's help, to look her very best. Cecile had declared the result was a success. "Miladi est merveilleusement belle ce soir, mais vraiment belle!" But a maid, of course, would not scruple to lie about such a matter.
"Cécile's daughter ..." he murmured: "Cécile's self again; but she was not so tall, I think," and drew trembling, reverent hands from her head to her straight young shoulders. And then he started, crying in a changed voice: "How wet and cold you are! Come closer to the fire sit you into this chair, here, in the warmth." He piled up the hearth with faggots till the flames roared again.
Search for a cupboard in the wall, Jane." Jane, full of curiosity, searched now with a will. There was but a short moment of suspense, then the sliding panel fell back, the little tin box was pulled out, and Cecile's Russia-leather purse was held up in triumph between Jane's finger and thumb. There was a cry of pleasure from Aunt Lydia.
"Now, as M. and Mme. de Marville are scarcely turned fifty, Cecile's expectations are bills that will not fall due for fifteen or twenty years to come; and no young fellow cares to keep them so long in his portfolio.
She held out her little arms. David, infinitely touched, laid down Sandy, and the children crooned together on the same pillow, he trying to stuff the cake into Cecile's mouth, she gently refusing. 'She's ill, said Louie abruptly, 'she's feverish I want a doctor. 'We can get one directly, he said. 'Will you come down and have some food? Lucy has gone to bed.
Maurice's scanty and shabby little wardrobe was also put in good repair, nor was poor Joe neglected, and with tears and blessing on both sides, these little pilgrims parted from those who had most truly proved to them good Samaritans. Whatever good Cecile's purse of gold might be to her ultimately, at present it was but a source of peril and danger.
"In the first place," said Cecile's father, "as I shall make over my estate of Marville to my daughter, I should wish the contract to be drawn up on the dotal system. In that case, M. Brunner would invest a million francs in land to increase the estate, and by settling the land on his wife he would secure her and his children from any share in the liabilities of the bank."
But as they were looking round bewildered, and Toby was softly licking Cecile's hand, the little girl felt a touch from this woman. "I ha' my own bed laid ready in this corner, and you are both welcome to share it, my little dears." "Oh! they may come with me. I has my corner put by too," said the red-faced girl, who also came up.
Landale, speaking somewhat at random out of his annoyance to have failed in immediately disgusting the hermit of the responsibilities his return home might entail, here succeeded by chance in producing the desired impression. The idea of Molly Cécile's double marrying worse still, making love, coquetting before his eyes, was intolerable to Adrian.
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