Petticoat Government - v. 3 Author:Frances Milton Trollope 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: CHAPTER III. This sally at once seemed to set everything right between them, and the joyous smile with which Judith pronounced his pardon, and, as she said, a... more »ccepted his sworn allegiance, brought an answering smile to the still lovely features of Mrs. Worthington. " What a strange transition does this little magical half-hour seem to have made in my destiny!" said she, looking with proud fondness in the beautiful face of her niece. " And what a strange girl you must be to have produced such an effect!" said Charles, also looking earnestly at her; but there wasless of unqualified admiration, and more of saucy criticism in his glance. " I wish you were not so superlatively elegant," said he. "I have told you that it was not my fault," replied Judith, meekly. " As you have forbad his heing ceremonious, my dear child," said Mrs. Worthington, " you are very likely to find him saucy,—particularly in the article of costume, for he fancies that, because he is an artist, he has a right to criticise everthing he sees." " Yes, I know he is an artist!" said Judith, colouring. On seeing which, Charles Worthington coloured too, and the feeling which caused him to do so showed him to be most profoundly ignorant of all that was going on in the heart of Judith. She already knew him a vast deal better than he knew her. " Yes! you are an artist, Charles," said she, fixing her eyes more earnestly upon him than she had yet done, and calling to her memory the foreheads of all the artists whose portraits she remembered—Titian, Salvator, Vandyke, Raffael, all rising in succession before her." Yes," she repeated, " I know he is an artist; and if he had not been one, I should never have found my way hither." "As howl" said Mrs. Worthington. " Charles has scarcely made a single...« less