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Haven't you a nice, pretty French name that we could call you instead?" "Therese! Yes, please do! I should feel so much more happy!" cried Mademoiselle eagerly, and Bridgie nodded in approval. "Therese is charming, and it's so much more friendly to use Christian names at Christmas-time. I shall begin at once. We want you to help us with the decoration of the rooms, Therese!
We may even capture Villa himself." "Wait a minute, bo," interrupted Billy Byrne. "Don't get excited. I'm lookin' to get my pal outen' Cuivaca. After that I don't care who you capture; but I'm goin' to get Bridgie out first. I ken do it with twenty-five men if it ain't too late. Then, if you want to, you can shoot up the town.
Margaret is having her music lesson. That's Ethel in the middle, with the frizzy hair. This is my sister Bridgie that I've told you about." The faces of the girls thus singled out for special notice were wooden in stolidity.
You make me quite ashamed of myself when I think of all the work you do, and how lazy and useless I am in comparison!" cried Bridgie earnestly. Her grey eyes were fixed on Miss Munns's face with the sweetest, most unaffected admiration, and Sylvia looked at them both and thought many thoughts.
We had so much to discuss about the old place and its people, that I'm afraid we have never mentioned your name. It was not Bridgie." "Oh!" said Sylvia, and stared across the room. It might, of course, have been Esmeralda herself who had enlightened Miss Burrell's ignorance, but there was a mysterious something in the girl's manner which gave a different impression.
She stared at the honest, kindly face, and felt that it would be difficult to harbour a prejudice against its owner, even if if "Are you Miss Burrell?" she asked, and Mollie smiled assent. "I am that, and you are Sylvia Trevor. I've heard about you from " "Bridgie yes! We have been great friends all winter." "Not Bridgie no!
This basket weighs me down!" said Bridgie, straining at the heavy handle, and then came surprise number one, for even as she spoke the door was flung back, and there appeared on the threshold one immaculate-looking man-servant, while farther down the hall stood two more in attitudes of attention. Three whole men to open one door!
They hugged and kissed, and kissed and hugged again, and fell apart to gaze with eyes that suddenly brimmed with tears. No need to ask the cause! The remembrance of the Major was in each heart, but Bridgie dried her eyes, and said, as if answering the unspoken lament "But we have so much to be thankful for!
Bridgie smiled polite reassurements, but Esmeralda lay back in her seat and naughtily yawned, as though in protest against her sister's words. She affected to conceal her weariness, but it was a transparent pretence, and the young fellow's eyes twinkled with amusement.
"Ye might as well say a thousand pounds!" said Bridgie hopelessly, relapsing into a deep, musical brogue in the emotion of the moment, and, wonder of wonders, the bored superiority of the great lady's manner gave place to a smile of sympathetic amusement.
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