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If it were a miracle, as little Renata sometimes thought, it was only one in so far as the Love which can inspire such faith and vision is yet but a strange unknown power with us, to which nature seldom rises, and can rarely hold when grasped.
Patricia greeted him with the air of a young princess and drew herself up when he said she had grown, and would soon be a child instead of a baby. Then he faced Christopher round towards Renata, who had suddenly become grave and shy. "Here is Christopher, so you can approve or condemn Nevil by your own judgment, Renata. Christopher, shake hands with Mrs. Aston."
I thought it might not fit in with your plans. She hasn't a penny of her own, though, of course, Renata and I will see to that." He knotted the handkerchief at the four corners and swung it to and fro to the astonishment of the imprisoned kitten. "Christopher has nothing either," said Aymer almost sharply, "and I shall see to that, with your permission, Nevil. That unfortunate kitten!"
"It's a lucky thing for me," he said to himself steadily, "that Nevil married Renata: he might just as easily have married someone I couldn't endure." When Christopher and Mr.
"And you played with it in the window there and left it there." "Is I naughty?" "Not very naughty if you tell me. Did you leave it there?" Charlotte's lip trembled. "I putted it to bed in the curtain by a mousehole, and it's all gone, naughty mousie." "Go and see, Renata, if there's a hole there." "Please," said Charlotte gravely. "Please what?" "Please go and see." Aymer laughed.
Els was standing at the head of the bed, supporting her mother with her strong young arms, while Sister Renata pushed the cushions between the sufferer's back and the bedstead. The old difficulty of breathing had evidently attacked her again.
"Patricia, do come and hear what this dreadful Nevil has let Charlotte do," cried Renata, still under shelter of her husband's long arm. For some reason she seemed anxious to let the child know she was seen and wanted. Nevil smiled and made room on the seat for her to sit by his side. Patricia stood in front of them, her great pathetic eyes looking from one to the other.
"I must see Nevil and Cæsar and tell them at once," he said hurriedly, "then I want you, my dearest. I've news for you, which I forgot just now. You must know it, though it makes no difference to us." Nevil came out at that moment and she slipped away after Renata with curiosity wide awake.
"I didn't say you were," said Christopher with faint exasperation. "I said it reminded me your temper. Come along in." She followed very unwillingly, more conscious than he was of his disfigured face. And Renata met them in the hall and saw it and got pink, but said nothing till Patricia had gone upstairs. Christopher was slipping away too he never found much to say to Mrs.
"Nevil," remarked Aymer severely, "I would call your attention to the fact that your wife is beginning to weigh men's merits by their means." Nevil only laughed. "I hear she has raided you of all you possess. Six pounds odd." "Seven pounds four and sixpence," corrected Aymer. "I should like the correct sum printed in good plain figures on your list, Renata.
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