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Updated: June 29, 2025
If this Christmas visitor that was to come to Humblethwaite could be successful, all would be right; but it had seemed to Sir Harry, during that last week of Cousin George's sojourn beneath his roof, there had been more of cousinly friendship between the cousins than had been salutary, seeing, as he had seen, that any closer connection was inexpedient.
His insistence on the cousinly privilege of protecting her had arisen from a private confession that she shrank from joining the orthodox group of maidens who would go forth at sundown, to try their fate. She was other than they were; out of purdah; out of caste; a being apart.
"No, it cannot be it is not THAT!" North looked over the hill and round the hill, and looked bored. "Oh, I'm going now. But one moment, Jem! I didn't want to come. They dragged me here. Good-by." She raised a burning face and eyes to his. He leaned forward and imprinted the perfunctory cousinly kiss of the period upon her cheek.
Something had passed between them just what it was, he could hardly recall with distinctness a mere fervent glance, perhaps a half spoken phrase, or at most a cousinly kiss which had contained the passion of a lover.
Steve sprang up and tore off the tablecloth in great confusion, while Mac, still rubbing his head, dropped into a chair, trying to look quite calm and cheerful as he gasped out: "How are you, Cousin? When did you come? John should have told us." "I'm glad he didn't, for then I should have missed this touching tableau of cousinly devotion and brotherly love.
Almost before she was aware of it, he had made a prisoner of the lonely little pupil-teacher's heart, and when she was convinced of the fact she fought against it, deeming herself a traitor to her friend, to whom she imagined he was attached, mistaking cousinly affection for something warmer.
You are my cousin, whom I love sincerely in a cousinly way; but I love Maurice with all my heart and soul!" and a deep blush overspread her countenance, while her happy smile and lowered eyes attested the truth of her statement. "And are you happy?" "Very happy! And, Hubert, I should like to see you happy too. Now acknowledge the truth, please. You love Cynthia is not that true?"
She might, indeed, have made the match she was so overjoyed in the good-fortune of her old friend Peter. She made no reference to the woodland meeting—she hoped for the happiness of seeing them in town. And she bade Peter tell the good news to Nannie Wetmore, they would be so glad. Nannie swallowed a grimace and proffered a cousinly hand.
Ethel took up the whole heap of Clive's drawings, lighted a taper, carried the drawings to the fireplace, and set them in a blaze. "A very pretty piece of work," says Lady Kew, "and which proves satisfactorily that you don't care for the young Clive at all. Have we arranged a correspondence? We are cousins, you know; we may write pretty cousinly letters to one another."
"I imagine any one who has ever seen a picture of the White House recognizes it instantly," said Betty, fearing a resumption of cousinly hostilities. "How beautiful the grounds are." "You must go through it some day soon," said Mrs. Littell. "And now we'll drive to the Capitol. Day after to-morrow would be a good time for you to take the girls to the Capitol, Bobby."
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