Dexie's

Surely you can see that Dexie's feelings for you are far from encouraging, and how can you think that two such firebrands -- yes, you must excuse the term, if you do not like it, but it suits you both -- do you think you two _could_ be happy together?

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Still no response from the white lips, for Dexie's heart was throbbing too fast to allow of speech.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

The strain on his nerves, coupled with the anxiety of the previous weeks, was more than he could bear, and when, with the assistance of two men armed with authority, he searched the vessel for any trace of Dexie's presence, and found none, his brain seemed to collapse, and the brass-buttoned officers carried him back in their boat to Halifax in a state of unconsciousness.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Amidst the fun and merriment that was taking place in the room, Dexie's abstracted and absent-minded manner was not noticed, except by one pair of eyes -- and very little that concerned Dexie Sherwood escaped the notice of

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Once, in Dexie's absence, he had pressed Gussie into service, but Mr. Sherwood never repeated the request, for Gussie's writing resembled the "sprawls of a many-legged spider that had fallen into the ink bottle, and then wiped his legs on the writing-paper," according to Mr. Sherwood's description of it.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

"Now, Elsie! don't speak as if there were anything for _you_ to be sorry for, or I shall have such qualms of conscience as will surely make me ill," was Dexie's laughing reply.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Dexie's heart than of giving his letter the usual appearance, and had left place, date and all tell-tale marks to find room at the bottom of the closely-written sheet.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

"I wonder what this means?" was Dexie's inward comment when she found herself alone with Hugh.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

Dexie's heart beat fast as she hurried to her father's room, but she was needlessly alarmed.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

The warm clasp of the hand, and the earnest look in his dark grey eyes, lingered in Dexie's memory until sleep had put all thoughts aside and mixed the real with the unreal in troubled dreams.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth