Jennie Montgomery
learned to realize Phillip Lawson's thoughts, and she felt that a
yearning sympathy had arisen within herself; yet, she knew full well
that her friend Josie was ignorant of anything which would suggest
the song, and as she was going to ask the hitter for one of her
favorites, Mr. Lawson came and stood beside Josie, exclaiming in the
softest and most gentle tone, "You sing well, Miss Josie, I'm afraid
that you have got yourself into trouble, for I am a lover of song
and--"
"Have become a perfect bore," cried Josie, "there I have done you
the service to finish the sentence, Mr. Lawson."
"Look here, Miss Jordan, the genial atmosphere of Kings County has
not any beneficial effect upon your good behaviour," cried Herbert
Rutherford, glancing at the pretty half-grown child with an air of
much gravity, and wondering if she will be a child-woman as well.
"I like Mr. Lawson only he has a strange way of looking at you," was
Josie's comment as the girls sought a snug little nook upstairs to
have a quiet chat before retiring.
"Mr. Lawson is a deep thinker, and ever in his brown-study his eyes
may happen to be riveted on you or any other object, yet he sees it
not.
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