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Spottiswoode did not much care for reading aloud, but she took the hint in good part, and called on Chrissy to tell what her book was about, and so divert Bourhope without wholly monopolizing his attention. Chrissy was rather shy at first. She never told stories freely away from home; but she was now pressed to do it.
Chrissy got up on the bed beside him; I got up at the foot of the bed, facing her, and we had the tea-tray and plenty of etceteras between us. "'Oh! I am happy! said Chrissy, and began to cry. "'So am I, my darling! rejoined Uncle Peter, and followed her example. "'So am I, said I, 'but I don't mean to cry about it. And then I did.
"Do go on with your pipe," she said, looking up as she arranged her dress; "I am quite used to smoke. Papa would smoke in church if he dared!" "Chrissy! You KNOW he NEVER smokes in the drawing-room!" cried Mercy, scandalized. "I have seen him when mamma was away." Ian began to be a little more interested in the plain one. But what must his mother think to see them sitting there together!
Such an excellent marriage for my cousin Chrissy a good girl, a very clever girl such a fortunate beginning for the Blackfaulds family. I often say the first marriage makes or mars a family of girls. It is so lucky that I invited Chrissy for the yeomanry weeks this summer.
She would not have said so much against him, had not Mercy taken his part. Mercy rarely contradicted her sister, but even this brief passage with a real man had roused the justice in her. "I don't agree with you, Chrissy," she said. "He seems to me VERY MUCH of a gentleman!"
"No; we left them alone, poor things, when the pinch came. But I used to see her walking the porch, up and down, up and down. Moya would go off on the hills. They couldn't walk together! That was after Miss Chrissy went home. Her mother took her back, you know, and then returned alone. Perfectly heroic!
He would have hated to find that his kinsfolk and friendly host and hostess, for whom he had a considerable regard, were mean enough and base enough to maltreat a poor little guest of their own invitation. Notwithstanding these demurs, Tom Spottiswoode of Bourhope rode so fast up to Chrissy as to cause her to give a violent start when she turned. "Hallo!
Indeed, Bourhope had a strong suspicion that Corrie retreated to her pillow again after showing him her lovely face lovely even in the pink curl-papers. But Chrissy certainly dressed immediately, and took a morning walk, by which her complexion at least did not profit.
Chrissy longed ardently to know them. And she had been almost fighting for a term at Rutgers. Mr. Ludlow was a common-place man, clerk in a shoe-store round in Houston Street, and capable of doing repairs. They rented out the second floor, as they could not afford to keep the whole house.
Ian knows what to do in an emergency; and though you might not think it, he is a very strong man." She rose immediately, and taking like a child the hand he offered her, went up the hill with him. The girls ran before them, and presently gave a scream of joy. "I see Chrissy! I see Chrissy!" cried one. "Yes! there she is! I see her too!" cried the other. Alister hurried up with Mercy.
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