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CHAPTER VII.
A New Interest

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p,eared, and. more important still
from a feminine point Of view, she
mad restocked@ her wardrobe and was
no longer under the necessity of an
pearing in borrowed plumes. Esther
had accompanied her In all her shop.
ping expeditions to Falmouth and
Truro, while Clement had been avail
able for any expedition that involved
long drive across the country.
Marion treated him with frank
friendliness. Ia her eyes he was al
most a middle-aged man And she
s. looked up to him as she would to an
uncle or to an elder brother. There
was not the faintest shadow OF couuet-
i ~ IN her intercourse with him, no
breath OF sentiment stirred her heart.
He was a middle-aged man and she
~ was girl, and that his friendliness
could rinen into any warmer feeling
\ never came within the circle of her
4 thoughts.
After p day or two Clement realized
how girlish she was--a woman in
B stature. wise beyond her years, seri.
ous In her outlook upon life--and yet
with a de ightfnl youthfulness that
scattered to the winds his early mis-
fyfi !, p- M. .,r, 80, !, i, Z,
world Why he should avoid her. He.
would be quite safe in spending as
much time in her company as he
pleased So he threw caution aside
and gave himself up to entertaining
& her, and in doing SO founs. abundant
ertainment.
ere was some thing very delight
sful ins her frank enjoyment OF every
/ thing, She had got into aisfresh en-
vironnlent and looked with wonder
ing and delighted eyes at everything
she saw Moreover. she had never
been taught to curb her enthusiasm
or bottle up her delight; when she
/ was happ seyeryb body knew It,
One Of her, first pleasures was In
being shown over the house. 1t seem
ed to hersalike medieval picture.
She had grown up in country where
everything was new, where the
\ houses sprang up like mushrooms in
ght, and cities appeared as II by
magic. Here was a house that had
taken generations to complete, and
whose walls had echoed to the laugh
y ter OF children who had died two hun
died years ago. 1T was like a fairy
tale. and she found herself weaving
all sorts Of strange fancies and filling
/ the place with the ghosts Of dead-and
gone MaWgans.
After the house the grounds had to
! be explored, and then the country be-
You'd. Sine and Clement took long
walks on the cliffs and explored in;
4 Vulnerable creeks and bays He point
( ed out to- her the treacherous Beetles.
Il c1lur1ling as always the green water
into foam; showed her the mar
row channel through which the boats
had come. and the rock TO which she
B mud chung when he and Grayton res
y cued her.
She grew serious when she stood
among the Il treacherous rocks In ST.
4 Chloe bay. and the tears came into
her eyes more than once She won
sdered again: IL 1t would not have been
4 better Ii she had gone down with the
1 Nebraska She was still dreading her
y meeting with Mr.. Mayhem, still pain
fully appre extensive OF the future.
M Size ST ID id not .Ialk to Clement, how
ever, OF her fears She felt it would
be ngrateful to do 50. He had been
d SO kind to her hat her duty was to-
i show her an eciation BY a cheerful
sdispositio ion S3s
Her brightness acted upon him like
B q tonic He began to look at things
through her eyes. Some Of the en-
tthusiasm Of his boyhood came back
y toshinl. The world was not nearly SO
duh al place as he had been proclaim
81 ing 1t. He was surprises at himself
! occasionally. Those dreary Novem-
I Der days, which he always dreaded.
h had become unaec ountably bright. The
long dull, pnrposeless evenings brinl-:
& med over with Interest and charm.
Eattaer played and sang because there
was home one who appreciated her
morris. ana Clement Turned his back,
SOn the library and ~ his pipe be-
cause the drawing room seemed more
cosy and warm.
ra daWgan looked on without
nisgi wing ter al, she Is only q
ci,ild, b was her ction. And Glenn
ssent had seen too much of the world
B ana had Ind much too painful an sx.
perience of women, 70 lsin any risk
from a girl Elm her teens
% tol ten days every hing sent as
Gell Al we'll could be Iarion stub
6 born rs net her face %, inst ant icipats
tfng the fat1re Now ana then,a cold
an On pprehe nsion swept ovey:s ylsr.
|ssbut she llicl recpvg "A herseltss
Z
MI the oppor tunity
,haae sas ellghtfuIN Old
81 81 Clement were de-
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