News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-12-01
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u'Oiulu5 ueIS, anu tuOu5HI IHdL' SHe
had never heard Of a fine thing being
| zone so finely. This very shamefaced-
ness appealed to her intensely, and yet
| last night Charlie had said that old.
S0 eep was in such tremendous spirits
about it all! Why was he so down
| his morning?
She only knew she could have taken
mis- hand, but for a very good reason
Why she could not. She had even to
guard against an equivocally sympa-
tAetic voice or manner, as she asked,
How long did they remand him for?"
Eight days.
We'll, then, you'll know the best or
the worst today week"
"Yes!" he said eagerly, almost aim
self again. But, whichever way it
goes, I'm afraid it means trouble for
me, Blanche; some time or other III
tell you why; but that's why l want
this to be the week Of our lives.''
SO he really meant what he had said
before. The phrase had been no care
less misuse of words; but neither,
uLGCi OH, ulu IL uCCtSodllly apply 10
Mr.. Toye. That was something. 1t
made il easier for Blanche not to ask
questions.
Cazalet had gone out on the bal
couy; now he called to her; and there
was no taxi, but a smart open car,
waiting in the road, it's brasses blazing
in the sum- an Immaculate chauffeur
at the wheel.
Whose is that, Sweep"
Mine, for the week I'm talking
about | mean ours, if you'd only
buck UP and get ready to come out!
A week doesn't last forever, you
know"
Blanche ran off to Martha, who
fused and hindered her with the best
intentions. 1t would have been diff
cult to say which was the more ex-
cited of the two. But the old nurse
would waste time in perfectly fatuous
"reminiscences of the very earliest ex
petitions in which Mr.. Cazalet had
led and Blanche had followed, and
what a bonny pair they had made
even then, etc. Severely snubbed on
that subject, she took to peering at
her mistress, once her BARN, with fur
tive eagerness and Impotence; for
Blanche, on her side, looked as though
she had something on her mind, and,
indeed, had made one or two attempts
to get it off. She had to force it even
in the end
There's just one thing want to
say before | go, Martha. You know
when Mr. Toye called yesterday, I was
out?"
"Oh, Mr. Toye; yes, I remember,
Miss Blanche"
well, don't want you to say that
he came in and waited half an hour
in vain; in fact not that he came
in at all, or that you're even sure you
saw him, unless, of course, you're
asked"
who should ask me, wonder?'
We'll, | don't know, but there seems
to be little bad blood between Mr..
Toye and Mr.. Cazalet."
Martha looked for moment as
though she we're about to weep, and |
then for another moment as though |
she would die of laughing But a /!
third moment she celebrated by max
ing an utter fool of herself, as she |
would have been told to her face by |
anybody but Blanche, whose yellow |
hair was being disarrapged by the |
70 hah ha1noH n iO1nriS- |
on it under that motor hat and veil.
"Oh, Blanche, is that all you have
to tell mo?" said Martha.
And then the week of their lives be.
gan.
The weather was true to them, and
this was a larger matter than it might
have been. They were not making |
love. They were not out for that"
as Blanche herself actually told Mar
tina, with annihilating scorn, when
the old dear looked both knowing and
longing-to-know at the end of the first
days run. They were out to enjoy
themselves, and that seemed shock
ing to Martha unless something was
coming of it," She had just sense
enough to keep her conditional clause
to herself.
Yet if they were only out to enjoy
themselves, in the way Miss Blanche
vowed and declared tmore shame for
herr, they certainly had done wonders
for a start. Martha could hardly
credit all they said they had done
and as an embittered pedestrian there
was nothing that she would put past
one of those nasty motors. 1t said
very little for MIR. Cazalet, by the way,
in Martha's private opinion, that he
should take her Miss Blanche out in
a car at all; if he had turned out as
well as she had hoped, and meant
anything a nice boat on the river
would have been better for them both
than all that tearing through the air
in a cloud of smoky dust; it would
also have been much less expensive,
and far more the thing"
But, there to see and hear the child
after the first day. She looked so
tiy,,a ATortha really