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Handicapped by the necessity of dictating his book, the author often found himself at a standstill for some word which eluded him; and although he encouraged Toni to make suggestions, it was very seldom that she ventured to do so. The work went badly in consequence.
"Oh, I'm always ready for tea," replied the girl, laughing, "and motoring does make one thirsty, doesn't it, Mrs. Rose?" "Will you come, then?" Toni had risen, and now moved, feeling cold with nervousness, towards the door. "We ... we are having tea in the dining-room to-day." Barry opened the door as she spoke; and together the little party crossed the hall to the dining-room.
At the bend Toni turned and waved her hand to him gaily, and he responded with a smile, which faded as the car vanished from sight. Somehow his meeting with the girl had saddened him oddly. There was something rather pathetic about Toni at this moment of her existence, though it would have been hard to say exactly wherein the pathos lay.
Well, you'll all of you get a surprise one of these days, when you find that Toni is as wide-awake as anybody else, and knows a thing or two you don't suspect her of." "Eva, you are talking nonsense, and you know it." Herrick was seriously annoyed. "I imagined foolishly that you were a friend of Toni Rose; and it never entered my head you would say spiteful things of this sort about her."
To Toni the summer had been one long time of enchantment.
After one or two vain attempts to induce her to speak, therefore, Herrick abandoned the idea; and Eva withdrew with a malicious little smile on her lips which rendered her husband still more uneasy. He wandered restlessly about his small domain, puzzling his head as to what could have happened to Toni. He had not seen her often of late.
This was the ninth day of their mutual labour; and even Toni's optimism could not assert that the experience had been successful. She had tried so hard, poor Toni.
It chanced on a beautiful October day that Owen found it necessary to go to town on business connected with the Bridge; and for once he went up by train, bidding Toni use the car if she felt so inclined.
Why will these nice men marry such nonentities, I wonder? She is bound to be a drag on him all her days." For all her shrewdness Miss Loder never dreamed that her estimation of Toni was clearly evident to the person concerned.
Toni, the mate, was the only one who slept aboard. Many of the seamen had begged permission to live in the city, and so the steamer had been entrusted to the guardianship of Uncle Caragol with half a dozen men for the daily cleaning.
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