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Helen looked serious and Amy indignant when their uncle joined them, ready to set out by the afternoon train, all having dined and rested after the morning's excursion.
"Well, little girls, what's the matter now?" he asked, paternally1, for the excellent man adored his nieces.
"Helen says it's not best to go on with the Pole, and is perfectly2 nonsensical, uncle," began Amy, petulantly3, and not very coherently.
"Better be silly now than sorry by and by. I only suggested that, being interesting, and Amy romantic, she might find this young man too charming, if we see too much of him," said Helen.
"Bless my soul, what an idea!" cried the major. "Why, Nell, he's an invalid4, a Catholic, and a foreigner, any one of which objections are enough to settle that matter. Little Amy isn't so foolish as to be in danger of losing her heart to a person so entirely5 out of the question as this poor lad, is she?"
"Of course not. You do me justice, uncle. Nell thinks she may pity and pet any one she likes because she is five years older than I, and entirely forgets that she is a great deal more attractive than a feeble thing like me. I should as soon think of losing my heart to Hoffman as to the Pole, even if he wasn't what he is. One may surely be kind to a dying man, without being accused of coquetry;" and Amy sobbed6 in the most heart-rending manner.
Helen comforted her by withdrawing all objections, and promising7 to leave the matter in the major's hands. But she shook her head privately8 when she saw the ill-disguised eagerness with which her cousin glanced up and down the platform after they were in the train, and she whispered to her uncle, unobserved,—
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unnatural
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villain
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aquiline
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testily
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alluring
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thither
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