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Many delightful things he showed her, while Holly and the dog Balthasar danced ahead, or came to them at intervals for attention. It was one of the happiest afternoons he had ever spent, but it tired him and he was glad to sit down in the music room and let her give him tea. A special little friend of Holly's had come in a fair child with short hair like a boy's.
With the best intentions in the world, Val could not help admiring him at that moment; his face was clear, his voice quiet, he looked somehow distinguished, as if acting up to principle. "Well!" Val said abruptly, "it's nothing to you." "Oh!" said Jolly; "you come this way," and he crossed the hall. Val followed. At the study door he felt a touch on his arm; Holly's voice said: "I'm coming too."
That was fifteen years ago, and they had not seen him since; though two unanswered letters in Simeon Holly's desk testified that perhaps this, at least, was not the boy's fault.
He plays everywhere everywhere he goes." "Is that so?" murmured Jack politely, shuddering a little at what he fancied would come from a violin played by a boy like the one before him. "Nothing, except to go for walks and read." "Nothing! a big boy like you and on Simeon Holly's farm?" Voice and manner showed that Jack was not unacquainted with Simeon Holly and his methods and opinions.
"People WILL assume that I'm in love." "Well, aren't you?" Fleur shrugged her shoulders. 'I might have known it, thought June; 'she's Soames' daughter fish! And yet he! "Well, what do you want ME to do?" she said with a sort of disgust. "Could I see Jon here to-morrow on his way down to Holly's?
He must run the rapids with Silver Tassel there was no other way. It would be a fight through the jaws of death; but no Indian's eyes had a better sense for river-life than William Rufus Holly's.
"People will assume that I'm in love." "Well, aren't you?" Fleur shrugged her shoulders. 'I might have known it, thought June; 'she's Soames' daughter fish! And yet he! "What do you want me to do then?" she said with a sort of disgust. "Could I see Jon here to-morrow on his way down to Holly's? He'd come if you sent him a line to-night.
Further up than the children usually ventured, there was an old bridge across the Lobos, Captain Holly's private road to the mill town; but it was boarded across now, and hundreds of chipmunks nested in it, and whisked about it undisturbed. The great stables and barns stood empty; the fountains were long gone dry. Only the orchard continued to bear heavily.
Holly's tear-wet, yet radiant face, he collapsed limply. "Gosh!" he muttered. "Say, do you know, I didn't s'pose I did care so much! I reckon I'll go an' tell Mr. Jack. He'll want ter hear." David's convalescence was picturesque, in a way. As soon as he was able, like a king he sat upon his throne and received his subjects; and a very gracious king he was, indeed.
Winifred thought that "rather nice," and added comfortably: "Well, Holly's sensible; she'll know how to deal with it. I shan't tell your uncle. It'll only bother him. It's a great comfort to have you back, my dear boy, now that I'm getting on." "Getting on! Why! you're as young as ever. That chap Profond, Mother, is he all right?" "Prosper Profond! Oh! the most amusing man I know."
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