About the Book
CHAPTER I AN UNCEREMONIOUS DEPARTURE Oh, isnt it just splendid, Ruth? Dont you feel like singing and dancing? Come on, lets have a two-step! Ill whistle! Alice! How can you be so—so boisterous? expostulated the taller of two girls, who stood in the middle of their small and rather shabby parlor. Boisterous! Werent you going to say—rude? laughingly asked the one who had first spoken. Come, now, fess up! Werent you? and the shorter of the twain, a girl rather plump and pretty, with merry brown eyes, put her arm about the waist of her sister and endeavored to lead her through the maze of chairs in the whirl of a dance, whistling, meanwhile, a joyous strain from one of the latest Broadway successes. Oh, Alice! came in rather fretful tones. I dont— You dont know what to make of me? Thats it; isnt it, sister mine? Oh, I can read you like a book. But, Ruth, why arent you jolly once in a while? Why always that maiden all forlorn look on your face? Why that far-away, distant look in your eyes—Anne, Sister Anne, dost see anyone approaching? Talk about Bluebeard! Come on, do one turn with me. Im learning the one-step, you know, and its lovely! Come on, laugh and sing! Really, arent you glad that dad has an engagement at last? A real engagement that will bring in some real money! Arent you glad? It will mean so much to us! Money! Why, I havent seen enough real money of late to have a speaking acquaintance with it. Weve been trusted for everything, except carfare, and it would have come to that pretty soon. Say youre glad, Ruth! The younger girl gave up the attempt to entice her sister into a dance, and stood facing her, arm still about her waist, the laughing brown eyes gazing mischievously up into the rather sad blue ones of the taller girl. Glad? Of course Im glad, Alice DeVere, and you know it. Im just as glad as you are that daddy has an engagement. Hes waited long enough for one, goodness knows! You have a queer way of showing your gladness, commented the other drily, shrugging her shapely shoulders. Why, I can hardly keep still. La-la-la-la! La-la-la-la! La-la-la! She hummed the air of a Viennese waltz song, meanwhile whirling gracefully about with extended arms, her dress floating about her balloonwise. Oh, Alice! Dont! objected her sister. Cant help it, Ruth. Ive just got to dance. La-la! She stopped suddenly as a vase crashed to the floor from a table, shattering into many pieces. Oh! cried Alice, aghast, as she stood looking at the ruin she had unwittingly wrought. Oh, dear, and daddy was so fond of that vase! There, you see what youve done! exclaimed Ruth, who, though only seventeen, and but two years older than her sister, was of a much more sedate disposition. I told you not to dance! You did nothing of the sort, Ruth DeVere. You just stood and looked at me, and you wouldnt join in, and maybe if you had this wouldnt have happened—and—and— She did not finish, her voice trailing off rather dismally as she stooped to pick up the pieces of the vase. It cant be mended, either, she went on, and when she looked up the merry brown eyes were veiled in a mist of tears. Ruths heart softened at once. There, dear! she said in consoling tones. Of course you couldnt help it. Dont worry. Daddy wont mind when you tell him you were just doing a little waltz of happiness because he has an engagement at last. She, too, stooped and her light hair mingled with the dark brown tresses of her sister as they gathered up the fragments. I dont care! announced Alice, finally, as she sank into a chair. Ill tell dad myself. Im glad, anyhow, even if the vase is broken. I never liked it. I dont see why dad set such store by the old thing. You forget, Alice, that it was one of— Mothers—yes, I know, and she sighed.... About the Author
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Product Details
- ISBN-13: 9781548241636
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Binding: Paperback
- Language: English
- Returnable: N
- Width: 60 mm
- ISBN-10: 1548241636
- Publisher Date: 22 Jun 2017
- Height: 0 mm
- No of Pages: 266
- Weight: 453.592 gr
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