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Without much trouble he coaxed a big piece of gingerbread from Araminta who was very curious to learn where he was going which he crowded into his pocket. Expecting to be gone a long time, he took an apple from the basket on the dining-room table and two bananas.
"That will do," observed Spikeman; "her curiosity is excited, and that is all I wish." What Spikeman said was correct. Araminta joined Miss Mathews shortly after Spikeman and Joey had gone away. "My dear Araminta," said Melissa, "such an adventure I can hardly credit my senses." "Why, what is the matter, dear cousin?" "Do you see that man and boy, with a knife-grinder's wheel, just in sight now?"
Meanwhile, his heart yearned strangely toward Miss Evelina. It was altogether possible that something, might be done. Ralph was modest, but new discoveries were constantly being made, and he knew that his own knowledge was more abreast of the times than his father's could be. At any rate, he was not so easily satisfied. He was trying faithfully to forget Araminta, but was not succeeding.
First let me inform you that none in this land knows me to be your wife. Your letter to my grandfather never reached him, and to this hour I have held my peace. The clergyman who married us is a prisoner among the French, and the strong-box which held the register of St. Michael's Church was stolen. The one other witness, Mr. Shoreham, your lieutenant as you tell me went down with the Araminta.
I knew what was coming from the look on her face and her manner of walking, and the way she held her head. If ever I write that book I am always thinking about I am going to put Elizabeth in it as well as Miss Araminta Armstrong, and if I could get some men to match them I would have some corking characters to begin with. But no kind of pen-and-ink picture of Elizabeth would do her justice.
Besides, we each had a feeling that two could play at this Wilkins game, and I had made up my mind that if Araminta could so easily find a substitute for me I, with my twinkle, could as speedily replace her. That is to say, I felt that I could create that impression in Araminta's mind, and that was all I was after.
The dolls' names are Bella and Araminta, and the mothers' are Lucy and Mary.
"Let me die but Cupid never meets with anything save inhospitality in this gross world!" cried Lady Drogheda. "For the boy is heels over head in love with Araminta, oh, a second Almanzor! And my niece does not precisely hate him either, let me tell you, William, for all your month's assault of essences and perfumed gloves and apricot paste and other small artillery of courtship.
How they are pushed into conversation! what absurd vows and protests are palmed off by their aid! What good can there be in pulling and pressing a thumb and four fingers? I fancy I see Alexis laugh, who is haply reading this page by the side of Araminta.
"And is this your independence of soul, my Angelina?" cried Araminta, setting her back to the door, so as effectually to prevent her from passing "and is this your independence of soul, my Angelina thus, thus tamely to submit, to resign yourself again to your unfeeling, proud, prejudiced, intellect-lacking persecutors?"
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