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Lennox did what she could to make her aunt presentable. And Aunt Betsy did look very respectable in her dark delaine, with her hat and shawl, both Morris' gift, and both in very good taste.
I am rather bored with them!" said Elizabeth flippantly. Delaine forced a smile. "Poor Old World! I wonder if you will ever be fair to it again, or or to the people bound up with it!" She looked at him, a little discomposed, and said, smiling: "Wait till you meet me next in Rome!" "Shall I ever meet you again in Rome?" he replied, under his breath, as though involuntarily.
I hain't got a delaine one to my name. "Sometimes I get my temper up, and tell him I will have something to wear as well as other folks, but he says he goes without as well as I, and there ain't no use of our laying out everything for finery. "Don't you think its about time for me to strike for something that people, that call themselves decent, have to wear?"
Two calicoes, a blue muslin, a gingham and another delaine, beside the one she had on. That was the sum total of Maddy's wardrobe, and Jessie glanced at it a little ruefully as Maddy carefully shook out the nicely folded dresses and laid them upon the bed. Here Mrs. Noah was heard calling Jessie, who ran away leaving Maddy alone for a moment.
He had fairly gentlemanly manners, also; though, in Delaine's opinion, he was too self-confident on his own account, and too boastful on Canada's, But he was a man of humble origin, son of a farmer who seemed, by the way, to be dead; and grandson, so Delaine had heard him say, through his mother, of one of the Selkirk settlers of 1812 no doubt of some Scotch gillie or shepherd.
When he was well out of sight of the station and the houses, he became aware of a man persistently following him, and not without a hasty grip on the stout stick he carried, he turned at last to confront him. "What do you want with me? You seem to be following me." "Are you Mr. Arthur Delaine?" said a thick voice. "That is my name. What do you want?"
They walked hurriedly along the train and got into an empty compartment together. Immediately afterwards the train moved off. "Well, I wonder what's up now!" said Philip in astonishment. "Do you suppose Anderson's got some clue to the men?" Delaine looked uncomfortably at Elizabeth.
Delaine, who with Anderson had found quarters in one of Laggan's handful of houses, went out to stroll and smoke alone, before turning into bed. He walked along the railway line towards Banff, in bitterness of soul, debating with himself whether he could possibly leave the party at once.
Elizabeth reluctantly confessed that she had no idea. "Well, he was sitting by a lake a kind of swamp at the back of the house, reading a book." Philip went off into a fit of laughter. "Poor Mr. Delaine!" cried Elizabeth, though she too laughed. "It was probably Greek," she added pensively. "Well, that's funnier still. You know, Elizabeth, he could read Greek at home.
"Philip! Mr. Arthur! they come from our side of Carlisle!" Philip looked up with a careless nod and smile. Delaine rose and went to join her. A lively conversation sprang up between her and the two men.
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