I don't understand Elsie, however, for she seems to have formed a
violent prejudice against him. From the nature of her announcement
of his presence I gathered that he was a rather forward young
man."
There was a twinkle in George's eye; but he merely said:
"Elsie is full of moods and tenses; but her kind little heart is
always the same, and that will bring her around all right."
They were soon after marshalled to the supper-room. Elsie slipped
in among the others, but was so stately and demure, and with her
curls brushed down so straight that you would scarcely have known
her. Her father caught his pet around the waist, and was about to
introduce her, when George hastened to say with the solemnity of
an undertaker that Elsie and Mr. Stanhope had met before.
Elsie repented the promise she had wrung from her brother, for any
amount of badinage would be better than this depressing formality.
She took her seat, not daring to look at the obnoxious guest; and
the family noticed with surprise that they had never seen the
little maiden so quenched and abashed before.
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