“She could scarcely wait to see Devenish and hear the rest of his adventures. From what she had heard, Tyndale had been quite brutally beaten. Her heart turned over as a picture of his pale bruised face came into her mind's eye. Whatever must he think of England, being so newly arrived and so savagely dealt with? But, he was not newly arrived, of course. He was a major, and had survived the terrible Battle of Waterloo. She thought with a sudden surge of irritation, "Oh, how I wish they had not c...ome here! I wish Dev had not brought Craig!" But in the next breath she was wishing that Devenish would hurry to her. The child did not look so scared any more, poor mite. And they would soon find some decent clothes for her. That awful dress! How could those two great moonlings have thought it became her? It was at least three sizes too large, and that hideous red-and-white check was downright ghastly! Already Peattie and Sullivan were quarreling happily over an ell of cambric and several pattern cards, and if she knew those two redoubtable women, their nimble fingers would have fashioned a far more attractive frock for the little girl by morning.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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