She wanted his attention, but so did everyone else. He found the door ajar, and, to his surprise, perceived little Winifred seated at a table, busily engaged in tracing some design upon a sheet of paper. “I say, Vee. 1. It shall be done as you direct. ’ ‘Begging your pardon, miss, but I think as how you ought to go back to London,’ Jack ventured. She dismissed the idea of doing so. Ruth made a little gesture, of infinite pity; and this was quickly seized upon by the slant-eyed Chinese girl. In a little while—to-morrow—all these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster. “We have to be— modern. Jests are not for seasons like this. They sat down, McClintock reaching for a lump of sugar which he began munching. A post-chaise seen in the road first alarmed us. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful.
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