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I see Adelaide Birkett and the Fairbairns. Why not go to them with Alick?" "It looks silly balancing one's self on the edge of a knife. And I should fall," said Leam. "No, you shall not fall," Alick pleaded. "I will undertake that you shall not." His arm was still held out, always awkwardly crooked. Leam lifted her eyes. "No," she said with her old calm decision, and moved away.
So time and events went on till the moment came for that fearful infliction the wedding-breakfast toast prefaced by the wedding-breakfast speech. This naturally fell to the lot of Mr. Birkett to propose and deliver, and after a concerted signaling with Edgar he rose to his feet and began his oration.
"Adelaide Birkett, if you will, plays well," she added; "but Leam, poor child! how should she?" "I hope I shall have an opportunity of judging for myself," said Edgar with his company manner. "When will you come and dine here, Dundas? to-morrow? You and your elder daughter: we shall be very glad to see you." He looked to his mother. Mrs.
She won Edgar's admiration for her tact and discretion, for the beautiful results of good-breeding. He congratulated himself on having such a friend as Adelaide Birkett. She would be of infinite advantage to Learn when his wife, and when he had persuaded that sweet doubter to believe in her and accept her as she was, and as he wished her to be accepted.
It was on his heart now to convince her that he could be as good to her as Alick, and, if she would allow him, a great deal better. At last he slackened, and pulled up at the group of which the Fairbairn girls and Adelaide Birkett were the most conspicuous members.
Birkett was puzzled what to say for the best to this uncomfortable fanatic, this unreasonable literalist. When believers have to formularize in set words their hazy notions of the feelings and conditions of souls in bliss, they make but a lame business of it; and nothing that the dear woman could propound, keeping on the side of orthodox spirituality, carried comfort or conviction to Leam.
My negative reply confirmed his suspicion. This almost induced me to believe the General-in-Chief had been the first to make the disclosure. General Lanusse, though he envied our good fortune, made no complaints. He expressed his sincere wishes for our prosperous voyage, but never opened his mouth on the subject to any one. On the 21st of August we reached the wells of Birkett.
It made her so unhappy to watch them; for, as she said to herself, Major Harrowby had always been so much her friend, and Adelaide Birkett was so much her enemy, that she felt as if he had deserted her and gone over to the other side. That was all. It was like losing him altogether to see him so much with Adelaide. With any one else she would not have had a pang.
To him those elderly maiden sisters of his were rather bores than otherwise, but he was not displeased that Adelaide Birkett thought differently. If it "ever came to anything," it would be better that they satisfied her than that she should find them uncongenial. "She is coming up to dinner this evening," Mrs.
Corfield's philosopher, are like the ideal angels of loving fancy. If mamma saw and knew what was going on here at this present moment and Mrs. Birkett was not the bold questioner to doubt this continuance of interest she felt as she would have felt when alive, and she would be angry, jealous, weeping, unhappy. Mrs.
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