” “You disappoint me,” she said wearily. . " "I am not, by Heaven," returned the knight, solemnly. “A little touchy this evening, aren’t we, Missy?” Michelle chided her friend. ’ ‘Was it?’ Her lips twitched. By degrees, his fears vanished, and hearing nothing, he grew calmer. The performance over, he relaxed and closed his eyes. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. “Do you know,” she said, “that every one is remarking how ill you look. ” Anna read, and her cheeks grew slowly scarlet. “I thought I saw her in town to-day,” he said. Tears started to the young man's eyes on beholding the change, and it was with difficulty he could command himself sufficiently to make the inquiries he desired to do respecting the former owner of the house. Let me keep you from that man’s clutches. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Happy Thanksgiving.
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