I shall see you to-morrow after the Confirmation;' and then he shook
hands with him and with Geraldine, asking if she were the little girl
of whom he had been told.
'She is very young,' said Mr. Bevan, strongly impressed with the
littleness of the figure;' but she has been a Communicant for more
than a year, and she is--a very good child.'
'I can believe so,' said the Bishop, smiling to her. 'I have heard of
your father, my dear, and of your brother.'
Cherry coloured rosy red, but was much too shy to speak; and the
Rector and Bishop went away, leaving only Mr. Audley.
'Are you very much tired, Fernan?'
'I don't know,' he half smiled.
'I think he is; he is too happy to know it,' said Geraldine.
'Please let him go home first.'
So Mr. Audley helped him out to the chair, where Felix, Alda, and
Lance were waiting; and he said, 'Thank you,' and held out his hand,
while Lance eagerly shook it, saying, 'Now it is right at last; and
here's Alda--isn't she a stunner?'
'I thought it was Wilmet,' said Fernan; and Alda went into church to
keep Cherry company, thinking how curiously blind the male sex were
not to distinguish between her dress and poor dear Wilmet's.
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