DOI Artikel:
D'Arcy, Ella: The pleasure-pilgrim
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21806#0048
44 The Pleasure-Pilgrim
not to be coy 3 and from Shakespeare that sweet-and-twenty is the
time for kissing and being kissed. She honours her masters in the
observance. She was not in the least abashed when, one day, I
suddenlv came upon her teaching that damned idiot, young Anson,,
two new ways of kissing.”
Campbell’s impressions of the girl were readjusting themselves
completely, but for the moment he was unconscious of the change_
He onlv knew that he was partly angry, partly incredulous, and
inclined to believe that Mayne was chaffing him.
“ But Miss Dodge,” he objected, u the little sister, she is older 5.
old enough to look after her friend. Surely she could not allow
a young girl placed in her Charge to behave in such a way-”
“ Oh, that little Dodge girl,” said Mayne contemptuously ;
“ Miss Thayer pays the whole shot, I understand, and Miss Dodge
plays gooseberry, sheep-dog, jackal, what you will. She finds her
reward in the other’s cast-off finery. The silk blouse she was wear-
ing to-night, I’ve good reason for remembering, belonged to Miss
Lulie. For, during a brief season, I must teil you, my young lady
had the caprice to showattentions to your humble servant. I suppose
mybeinga married man lent me a factitious fascination. But I didn’t
see it. That kind of girl doesn’t appeal to me. So she employed Miss
Dodge to do a little active canvassing. It was really too funny ;
I was Corning in one day after a walk in the woods ; my wife was
trimming bonnets, or had neuralgia, or something. Anyhcw, I
was alone, and Miss Dodge contrived to waylay me in the middle
of the court-yard. ‘ Don’t you find it vurry dull walking all by
yourselt ? ’ she asked me ; and then blinking up in her Strange
little short-sighted way—she’s really the weirdest little creature—
c Why don’t you make love to Lulie ? ’ she said ; ‘you’d find her
vurry charming.’ It took me a minute or two to recover presence
of mind enough toask her whether Miss Thayer had commissioned
her
not to be coy 3 and from Shakespeare that sweet-and-twenty is the
time for kissing and being kissed. She honours her masters in the
observance. She was not in the least abashed when, one day, I
suddenlv came upon her teaching that damned idiot, young Anson,,
two new ways of kissing.”
Campbell’s impressions of the girl were readjusting themselves
completely, but for the moment he was unconscious of the change_
He onlv knew that he was partly angry, partly incredulous, and
inclined to believe that Mayne was chaffing him.
“ But Miss Dodge,” he objected, u the little sister, she is older 5.
old enough to look after her friend. Surely she could not allow
a young girl placed in her Charge to behave in such a way-”
“ Oh, that little Dodge girl,” said Mayne contemptuously ;
“ Miss Thayer pays the whole shot, I understand, and Miss Dodge
plays gooseberry, sheep-dog, jackal, what you will. She finds her
reward in the other’s cast-off finery. The silk blouse she was wear-
ing to-night, I’ve good reason for remembering, belonged to Miss
Lulie. For, during a brief season, I must teil you, my young lady
had the caprice to showattentions to your humble servant. I suppose
mybeinga married man lent me a factitious fascination. But I didn’t
see it. That kind of girl doesn’t appeal to me. So she employed Miss
Dodge to do a little active canvassing. It was really too funny ;
I was Corning in one day after a walk in the woods ; my wife was
trimming bonnets, or had neuralgia, or something. Anyhcw, I
was alone, and Miss Dodge contrived to waylay me in the middle
of the court-yard. ‘ Don’t you find it vurry dull walking all by
yourselt ? ’ she asked me ; and then blinking up in her Strange
little short-sighted way—she’s really the weirdest little creature—
c Why don’t you make love to Lulie ? ’ she said ; ‘you’d find her
vurry charming.’ It took me a minute or two to recover presence
of mind enough toask her whether Miss Thayer had commissioned
her