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"He offered to go home and change it. I was so chagrined that I cursed him fearfully." "Bernie!" Dreux nodded with an expression of the keenest satisfaction. "I could have cried. I called him a worm, a bug, a boll-weevil; but he said he had a family and didn't intend to be shot up by some well-dressed desperado." "I suppose it's the blood of your ancestors." "I suppose it is.
"Pooh! I'm not. She's no richer than Bernie." "It isn't that. I'm not afraid of rich people. But she seems so grown up and well, experienced." "Well, sixteen is grown up. And we're getting there, Dolly. I shall put up my hair while I'm in New York." "Why, Dot Rose! Really?" "Yes, that is if Alicia does. Bernice often does, you know." "I know it. I'll ask mother if I may."
Most of the fellows know. That's what makes it so hard." This intelligence entirely robbed Myra Nell of words; she stared at her half-brother as if trying to realize that the man who had made this shocking admission was he. "Do you mean to tell me that your friends have known of this disgrace?" she asked at length. Bernie nodded.
Perhaps I can get along all right, and, anyhow, I'll have to teach school or or be a nun if I'm all pock-marks." "Good Lord!" Bernie wiped his brow with a trembling hand. "D'you think that'll happen, Norvin?" "It's bound to," the girl predicted, indifferently. "But what's the odds?" Suddenly a new thought dilated her eyes with real horror. "Oh!" she cried. "Oh! I just happened to remember.
His disappearance, of course, required much explaining and long conversations with his office, with his associates, and with police headquarters, where his plight was regarded as a great joke. This was all very well; but there were other and unforeseen consequences. Bernie Dreux heard of the affair with blank amazement, which turned into something resembling rage. His duty, however, was plain.
D-don't make a scene," groaned the unhappy Dreux, nursing his ear and staring about the cafe with frightened, appealing eyes. "Bernie was just " "You defend him, eh?" stormed the creole girl. "You are his friend. Beware, M'sieu, that I do not pull your ears also. I came here to unmask him." "Please sit down. You're attracting attention." "Attention! Yes! But this is nothing to what will follow.
I'm never really engaged; that is, hardly ever." "Then there is a terrible misapprehension at large!" "Oh, I'm always misapprehended. Even Bernie misapprehends me; he thinks I'm frivolous and light-minded, but I'm not. I'm really very serious; I'm I'm almost morose." He laughed at her. "You don't mean to deny you have a bewildering train of admirers?" "Perhaps, but I don't like to think of them.
You're engaged to Norvin Blake." "Oh, yes, among the others." Bernie was too miserable to voice the indignation which such flippancy evoked in him. He merely said: "Norvin isn't like the others. It's different with him; he compromised you," "Yes. It was rather nice of him, but do you think he'll care to continue our engagement after this?" "Oh, he's known about Felicite for a long time.
She warned him with a grimace which Bernie did not see. "He's a frightful beast." "I can't afford a trained nurse," Dreux objected, "and you don't need one, anyhow." "All right for you, Bernie; if you don't care any more for my life than that, I'll sicken and die. When a girl's relatives turn against her it's time she was out of the way." "Oh, all right," said her brother, angrily.
Before I knew it I found myself entangled in an intrigue I had hold of an electric current and couldn't let go. When I didn't follow her around, she followed me. When I didn't make love, she did. She learned about Felicite, and there was Excuse me!" Bernie rose, put his head cautiously outside the door to find the coast clear, then said: "Hell to pay!
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