Capitolo 37
you ride with me this afternoon", she affirmed. "That's why it was not
especially convenient to--to You you/he/she has struck from lightning this
afternoon!" With a small brown hand, she tragically sharpened, toward
the great confusion water-bathed rotten of periodicals that have surrounded her. "You
sees", she cried, "I am saving them on every summer--to cut
out--to-day! And now?--Now--? We am sailing for Saturday of Melbourne!"
she conclusively added.
"Well--really!" Stammered Barton. "Well--really!--Well, of all--accursed
things! Because--thing wants me to do? You excuses to you to have
is stricken from lightning?" Its voice was enough rebellious with
the amazement and the indignation. Then rather to the sudden one one side of his
mouth started to twist direct upward in the perceptible kind and more weak of a truth
sneer.
"When you smile as that you are--small rather pleasant Eve", murmured
Edgarton.
"Is it that this way?" Sneered Barton. "Well it would not hurt her to smile,
only a small piece now and then!"
"Not him?" said Edgarton the small Eve. Thoughtfully for a moment,
with his/her scissors balanced tall in the air, she seemed same considering
the suggestion. Then rather brusquely again her taken back his/her assignment of
investigating out some glued object of his/her discard-book. "Oh, no, thanks,
The Mr. Barton", her decided. "Me very I/you/they are also annoyed--the whole time--to do
some smiling."
"Done annoy?" Barton. Fixing perplexedly in her dark, mild
little affronts, anything more depth, anything very thinner that mere
the curiosity, him precipitately aroused in his/her conscience. "For Sky
cause, Miss Edgarton!" he stammered. "From the Arctic ocean to the
Southern seas, if you have seen all the things that you have had to see, if
You has made all the things that you have had to do--Because it Owes her
DO YOU LOOK SO IT ANNOYED?"
Flutteringly the eyes of the girl lifted and they fell. "Because, I am annoyed, Mr.
Barton", small Eve spoken to goslow mode Edgarton, "I am annoyed because--I am ill to