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"I think I'll go down and have a look," said Good Indian suddenly "I'er's orders, if the rest of the bunch is And I wish you'd tell Peaceful I want to talk to hiel somehow I'd like to see him on the quiet if I can, but if I can't--"
"Can't be nice, and forgiving, and repentant, and--a dear?" Evadna had crept over to him by way of the rocks behind the pond, and at every pause in her questioning she pushed him forward by his two shoulders "I'e, by letting a lady stay all afternoon by herself, waiting for you to co nice to you? Don't you know I H-A-ATE you?" She had hi his head erratically fro each ear a little slap and laid her arms around his neck "Please don't look at me that way, Aunt Phoebe," she said, when she discovered her there inside the door "Here's a horrible young villain who doesn't kno to behave, andup I don't like him one bit, and I just came to tell hi her two hands tightly over his mouth, "he has a word to say for hied, Grant had not a word to say Even when he had pulled her hands away and held the This was Evadna in a new and unaccountable ry with him at noon She had accused him, in that roundabout hich seerievance, of being fickle and neglectful and inconsiderate and a brute
The things she had said to hirade had rankled in his mind, and stirred all the sullen pride in his nature to life, and he could not forget them as easily as she appeared to have done Good Indian was not in the habit of saying things, even in anger, which he did not mean, and he could not understand how anyone else could do so And the things she had said!
But here she was, nevertheless, laughing at hi adorably because he still held her fast, andthe blood of him race ed, perhaps because there was so in Phoebe's face which she did not quite understand, and so mistook for disapproval of her behavior "I should have told you last night that we're--well, I SUPPOSE we're supposed to be engaged!" She twisted her hands away from him, and came down the steps to her aunt "It all happened so unexpectedly--really, I never drea for hiht I couldn't tell you, and thisto, but all this horrible trouble canation, "I think Grant ht have told you himself! I don't think it's a bit nice of hiht have told you before he went chasing off to--to Hartley" She put her arry, are you, Aunt Phoebe?" she coaxed "You--you know you said you wanted me to be par-TIC-ularly nice to Grant!"