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He would seize her and carry her off, trap her like a bird. He determined on the morrow to return early to Grangersons and think things out. Whilst he was lying in bed thinking things out, the folk at Vernons were retiring to rest. Maria Pinckney knew nothing of what had occurred between Silas and Richard.
"Now I'll tell you what," said Miss Prissy, "wasn't it lucky you had me here? for I first saw him coming in at the gate, and I whipped in quick as a wink and opened the best-room window-shutters, and then I was back at the door, and he bowed to me as if I'd been a queen, and says he, 'Miss Prissy, how fresh you're looking this morning! You see, I was in working at the Vernons', but I never thought as he'd noticed me.
Never, never for a moment did it appear possible to the three girls that such a proposition could be seriously discussed. "So likely!" sneered Clemence with a fine disdain. "Give up all the fun and excitement of the sea with the Vernons, to browse with Aunt Maria. So likely, to be sure!" "Poor dear old love! She is deluded. Thinks it would be a pleasure and benefit, does she.
They had talked together, then Silas had sent the groom back to Charleston to return to Grangerville by train, and had driven off with Phyl. The groom, a relation of Dinah's, having some three hours to wait for a train, had dropped into Vernons to pass the time and tell the good news. He was in the kitchen now. Miss Pinckney could not but believe.
By the help of a subtle sense familiar spirit to her love perhaps she knew that John would ask her to go with him and to be his wife, despite all the Rutlands and Vernons dead, living, or to be born. The thought of refusing him never entered her mind.
The crowd cleared away slowly, the women students retiring to refresh themselves with luncheon before beginning a second wait. The Vernons repaired to their rooms and feasted on the contents of the hamper prepared for the picnic, the father and mother abeam with pride and satisfaction, Dan obviously filled with content, and dear old Hannah full of quips.
Across the garden of Vernons one caught a glimpse of other gardens, palmetto-tree tops, and away, beyond the battery, a hint of the blue harbour.
It was in the kindly spirit of Vernons not to pass a painter's brush over these scratchings, records of the height of a child that lingered only in the memory of the old house. Phyl turned from them to the bookshelf and the books it contained.
Well, Mary must be careful, if she don't want to be carried off; for they do say that there can't any woman resist him, that sees enough of him. Why, there's that poor French woman, Madame what do you call her, that's staying with the Vernons? they say she's over head and ears in love with him." "But she's a married woman," said Mary; "it can't be possible!" Mrs.
But now, she sat voiceless beside her companion, answering only in monosyllables when he spoke; a voice began to trouble her, a voice that repeated the half statement, half question, over and over again. "You are running away to be married to Silas Grangerson?" She was running away from her troubles, from the prospect of returning to Ireland, from the idea of banishment from Vernons.
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