The Lovely Malincourt Author:Helen Mathers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gown, who saw them coming, told herself that the blow had fallen at last, and this girl, who was turning all the men's heads, was turning one that had never been... more » turned before. " Good-bye, Mr. Yelverton; thank you so much for the treat you have given me!" she heard Lesley say, in that spontaneous, sincere way natural to her; and then Ronny's voice saying, " Could you look me up at the Rag after lunch, Yelverton ? " And without waiting for an answer, galloped off after Lesley, who had, as was generally admitted among the nodding left-behinds, fairly " taken the cake " in cheek that morning. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER VI. " Ronny," said Lesley, when he joined her (and it struck him that, though cousins, this was the first time she had thus addressed him), " will—will she be very angry, do you think ? The mare just danced off with me when I was trying her paces, and I didn't think—no more did she ! " She looked then as she had done on her arrival—apprehensive and proud and shy, all in one, and Ronny's heart smote him. She had no mother, only Lady Cranstoun for a friend, and a mother is able to teach her daughter so much, and keep from her so much that she may not learn, and the girl had been thrown entirely among men—so much was apparent in her supreme mastery of their little ways, and the uncommon lightness of her hand with them. Perhaps, if she had been constantly with nice women—but here he stopped, knowing how, in that case, the originality, the freshness of her mind would have been lost, and to Ronny originality of character was the one precious mental good on earth. " It is a pity," he began, then paused again. Really, for such a remarkably cool young man, Ronny was getting himself into a good many holes that morning. " Would you like to have the mare, Lesley ?"...« less