5/12 I have always been fond of you, Erema." "You have always been good to me, Firm," I said, as I managed to get a great branch between us. "After your grandfather, and Suan Isco, and Jowler, I think that I like you best of almost any body left to me. And you know that I never forget your slippers." "Erema, you drive me almost wild by never understanding me. Now will you just listen to a little common-sense? What an extraordinary thing it is! Oh, Erema, I beg your pardon." He had seen in a moment, as men seem to do, when they study the much quicker face of a girl, that his words had keenly wounded me--that I had applied them to my father, of whom I was always thinking, though I scarcely ever spoke of him. |