Vashti's Fate — page 95: what you’re looking at

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90 | WARNED. ‘‘T got experience, but experience is a bitter teacher. I learned something of men, of human nature. I found you, Nora.” He looked upon her blushing face, smiling, with his hand upon her head. ‘‘I am glad that I found you, Nora.” | ‘“Are you, sir! Why?” ‘‘You’re not a vain little girl, so I may tell you. Don't you know—if you don't now, you will as you grow older— that now and then we meet with people who impress us very unpleasantly from the first—people, in short, that without really knowing why, we dislike very much ?” She gave him a look of intelligence. ‘‘And, again, we meet with somebody who, in spite of a thousand little naughtinesses, suits us exquisitely ; whose eye answers our eye; who smiles in sympathy with our smile ; who, in short, we like very much, That is why I am glad I found you.” She looked at him, her bright eyes brimming with tears, and pretty color in her cheeks, smiling her pleasure, ‘Do I suit you, sir?” He looked at her with beaming eyes. ‘‘Wonderfully. I should like to have you my mother’s girl, to have you with me always,” Her arm was flung across his knee as she sat ona low stool before the fire; she laid her cheek upon it, and was silent ; but Miss Gresham, from where she sat, could see the tears creeping slowly down her rosy cheeks. Leon turned soon to a conversation with his cousin, but, contrary to her wont of late, she gave him only short replies, and her eye dwelt often on the face of the child. ‘Come, Nora,” she said, almost sharply, ‘‘it is time you were in bed.” Nora got up, and was leaving the room without a word, “.¢ % ‘ ' . . ? . ‘ . : ’ > - . %. a a J, my om ." ‘ ; ‘ > a ‘a Ad vd “ey mae ‘rT >< 4 4 o* ae — eT" rsa « we. ys . p “" “— | ea i PA toe - : oe : ” nig’ ty hee F : tae | Lind ‘ L = +s> & 4 ae ae re de. A eee Se ‘2 Pee. tt Pa te ek ee year ees ft inte a” ne The | wk + 7h Png oe 2% tse an i - - eth? sak Cera