And there
will surely be somebody she can come back with. May I have her?"
"What shall we do with you?" his sister said, softly. "I can't deny
you--or her. If her father agrees----"
"If I didn't know your big heart so well, Jack," said Roderick Birch,
slowly, "I should be too proud to accept so much, even from my wife's
brother. But I believe it would be unworthy of me--or of you--to let
false pride stand in my girls' way."
From the distance two figures were approaching, one in blue linen, the
other in white flannel--Charlotte and Doctor Churchill.
They were talking gaily, laughing like a pair of very happy children,
and carrying between them a great bunch of daisies and buttercups that
would have hid a church pulpit from view.
"Let's tell her now," proposed Celia. "I can't wait to have her know."
"Go ahead," agreed her uncle. "And let the doctor hear it, too. If he
isn't a brother of the family, it's because the family doesn't know one
of the finest fellows on the face of the earth when it sees him."
"You're a most discerning chap, Jack Rayburn," said his brother-in-law,
heartily, "but there are other people with discernment.
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