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CHAPTER XXI. UNCLE DICK.
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The day was drawing to a close. The children’s lessons were over, the last I was to hear. Their books were piled away awaiting the arrival of my successor, and at my request I was left in the schoolroom alone—alone with my grief, which was indeed bitter and hard to bear, for I knew that injustice2 had been done me, and most keenly I felt the mortification3 of returning home in disgrace. Very beautiful to me seemed that fair south land of which I had dreamed so oft, and I felt that I could not leave it.
Through the open window I heard the shouts of the children, but I did not heed4 them, nor observe that throughout the entire house there seemed to be an unusual commotion5. An hour went by, and then in the hall I heard the voice of Jessie, and the words she uttered sent an electric thrill through my nerves, and brought me to my feet, for they were, “Come this way, Uncle Dick. I reckon she’s in the schoolroom.”
The next moment he stood before me, the dark man, scanning me curiously6, but still without anything like rudeness in his gaze.
“Uncle Dick’s come. This is him,” said Jessie, leading him towards the spot where I stood.
A bright beautiful smile broke over his strongly marked 237features, and I felt as if a gleam of sunlight had shone for an instant over my pathway. Taking my hand in his, he bade Jessie leave us, as he wished to see me alone. She started to obey, but ere she reached the door, she turned back and asking him to stoop down, whispered in his ear, loudly enough for me to hear, “I want you to like her.”
“Of course I shall,” he replied, and again that smile broke over his face.
I did not expect him to recognize me, for with the exception of the night at the theatre he had never fairly seen my features, and still I was conscious of a feeling of disappointment when I saw that he evidently had no suspicion of ever having met me before. When I spoke7
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cedar
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grove
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bouquet
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exacting
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displeased
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indifference
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allusion
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inefficient
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rosy
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liking
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