If George Kearney gets the horses from the summit, we're going to ride over to Indian Spring to picnic.

Fairfax--Mr.Munroe--I always forget that man's real name in this dreadfully familiar country--well, he's coming to escort us, and take me, I suppose--that is, if Kearney takes Jessie." "A very nice arrangement," returned her father, with a slight nervous contraction of the corners of his mouth and eyelids to indicate mischievousness.

"I've no doubt they'll both be here.

You know they usually are--ha! ha! And what about the two Mattinglys and Philip Kearney, eh ?" he continued; "won't they be jealous ?" "It isn't their turn," said Christie carelessly; "besides, they'll probably be there." "And I suppose they're beginning to be resigned," said Carr, smiling.
"What on earth are you talking of, father ?" She turned her clear brown eyes upon him, and was regarding him with such manifest unconsciousness of the drift of his speech, and, withal, a little vague impatience of his archness, that Mr.Carr was feebly alarmed.

It had the effect of banishing his assumed playfulness, which made his serious explanation the more irritating.
"Well, I rather thought that--that young Kearney was paying considerable attention to--to--to Jessie," replied her father, with hesitating gravity.
"What! that boy ?" "Young Kearney is one of the original locators, and an equal partner in the mine.