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"You make a fellow feel like a gentleman, and that's the truth of it." Then he dashed out of sight among the flowers. Rosamund's last day at The Follies was spent in trying to soothe all parties. She tried to make Miss Frost rather less miserable. Hughie kept a good deal out of sight.
"No; his father was hurted hurt awful bad. He was lying down in the sleigh, and Yankee Jim " "Mr. Latham, you mean, Hughie." "Huh-huh," went on Hughie, breathlessly, "and Yankee Mr. Latham asked if the minister was home, and I said 'No, and then they went away." "What was the matter? Did you see them, Lambert?" The minister's wife went toward the house, with a shadow on her face.
Both Uncle Hughie and mother had declared that Elsie must have first chance, but Elsie didn't want to go, and it certainly was lucky, though they were all sorry, of course, that she wasn't going on. Gilbert wondered a little over the lad's remarks, but forgot them until the next occasion when he met Miss Cameron. He had been up to see a patient among the Glenoro hills, and was driving homeward.
He seemed to have a larger command of capital than ever, and he added several very important departments to his financial undertaking. The rivalry between Hughie and Foxy had become acute, but besides this, there was in Hughie's heart a pent-up fierceness and longing for revenge that he could with difficulty control.
"Why, we told you it would make him twist himself up to nothing. Go on, Hughie. It's very useful to be able to get rid of snakes." "'Now from nine double to eight double, And from eight double to seven double, And from seven double to six double. And from six double to five double, And from five double to four double, And from four double to three double.
There had not been a night since Hughie had given her the invitation that she had not lain awake for hours staring at the stars with a smile on her lips as she visualized situations. She saw herself dividing dances as belles did in books, taking her part in lively conversations, the center of merry groups. Oh, no, life would never be the same again; she was certain of it.
It would be that way, wouldn't it, Hughie?" "How could it be otherwise when just being together is happiness?" he answered. "It's like peeking into Paradise," she said, wistfully. "But you will you'll promise me? You'll give up this?" There was a faint note of anxiety in his earnestness as he laid a hand upon her shoulder and looked at her steadily.
Agnes, tired, happy, pleased with her new friend, fearing nothing, trusting all things, was soon got into bed, and Irene sat by her until she dropped asleep. Then she laid a light kiss on her forehead, closed the door softly, and went downstairs. Dinner was a thing of the past. Hughie and Miss Frost were pacing about in one of the corridors. Irene ran into the drawing-room.
Indeed the state into which I had fallen became a matter of increasing concern to my companions, who tried every means from ridicule to sympathy, to discover its cause and shake me out of it. The theory most accepted was that I was in love. "Come on now, Hughie tell me who she is. I won't give you away," Tom would beg.
"I had an idea from your telegram, Gallito, that Hughie was coming with you. Sha'n't I go?" For answer Gallito pushed forward a chair and threw another log upon the fire. "My daughter is tired," he said. "She will soon retire; but when a man has been from home for a fortnight, and in the desert!" he raised his brows expressively, "Pah!
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