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"Yes, thank you; I see Harold and Herbert are taking Rosie and Walter," she said. "But I warn you that I am a good deal heavier than Zoe." "Nevertheless, I think my strength will prove equal to the exertion," he returned, as he lifted her from the ground. Lulu and Grace stood together, hand in hand, Max on Gracie's other side.
They had reached the upper hall. The captain passed into Gracie's bedroom, Lulu into her own, Eva with her. "Such a sweet, pretty room!" Eva said, glancing around it; "I am always struck with that thought on coming into it, though I have seen it so often." "Yes," returned Lulu, her face lighting up with pleasure, "I think it so myself.
Scrimp, catching sight of it for the first time. "Our new mamma," the children answered in a breath, Gracie's tones full of gentle joyousness, Lulu's of a sort of defiant exultation, especially as she added, "Papa's coming next week to take us away to live at home with him." "On shipboard?" "No, in a cottage by the sea."
They were terrible moments for Avery that she spent outside that locked door, listening impotently to a child's piteous cries for mercy from one who knew it not. But they came to an end at last. Gracie's distress sank into anguished sobs, and Avery knew that the punishment was over. Mr. Lorimer had satisfied both his sense of duty and his malice. She heard him speak in cold, cutting tones.
"Let her scold! who cares!" returned Lulu with a scornful toss of the head, while Max, who had gone to the side of Gracie's sofa, stooped over her, and softly patting the thin pale cheek, asked how she felt to-day. "'Bout the same as usual, Maxie," she said, with a languid smile. "O Max, hurry and tell us what papa says in the letter!" cried Lulu impatiently. "Is it good news?"
With a sudden dive he seized the coin and without ceremony swept Gracie's hair from her shoulders and dropped it down the back of her neck. "There!" he said, slipping his hands over her arms and holding her while she squealed and writhed. "It's quite beyond reach. You can't in decency return it now. It's no good wriggling. You won't get it up again unless you stand on your head."
Don't wish the poor beast back again! Be thankful he's gone!" The vehemence of his speech was such that it carried conviction even to Gracie's torn heart. She looked up at him with something of wonder and of awe. "If only he hadn't suffered so!" she whispered. He put his hand on her forehead and smoothed back the clustering hair. "You poor kid!" he said pityingly.
Piers turned upon the music-stool, and with one of Gracie's fingers began to pick out an impromptu tune that somehow had a saucy ring. "I like that," said Gracie, enchanted. He laughed. "Yes, it's pretty, isn't it? It's Avery without the Aunt."
"Yes; I too; and Gracie's to have a quarter." "Oh, isn't it splendid!" he cried, and hurried to Violet to pour out his thanks. Grandma Elsie, seated on the sofa by Violet's side, shared with her the pleasure of witnessing the children's delight. Our friends had now spent several days in Boston, and the next morning they left for Philadelphia, where they paid a short visit to relatives.
Then the sickly glow of the "fluid" lamp shone through the doorway. "What ails you?" asked Elkanah. "Are you struck dumb? Now go and see if there's anybody else in the house." "But but there ain't. I know there ain't. Hannah's gone and Gracie's at meetin' by this time." "She? Humph! Well, maybe she's at meeting and maybe she isn't.
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