Le Noir and Clara.
Mrs. Le Noir, with a Frenchwoman's impetuosity, hurried to her
daughter and clasped her to her heart.
Cap gave one hurried glance at the beautiful pale woman that claimed
from her a daughter's love and then, returning the caress, she said:
"Oh, mamma! Oh, mamma! If I were only a boy instead of a girl, I
would thrash that Le Noir within an inch of his life! But I forgot!
He has gone to his account."
Old Hurricane was at this moment shaking hands with his son,
Traverse, who presently took occasion to lead up and introduce his
betrothed wife, Clara Day, to her destined father-in-law.
Major Warfield received her with all a soldier's gallantry, a
gentleman's courtesy and a father's tenderness.
He next shook hands with his old acquaintance, Mrs. Le Noir.
And then supper was ordered and the evening was passed in general
and comparative reminiscences and cheerful conversation.
CHAPTER XXXI.
"THERE SHALL BE LIGHT AT THE EVENTIDE."--Holy Bible.
They shall be blessed exceedingly, their store
Grow daily, weekly more and more,
And peace so multiply around,
Their very hearth seems holy ground.
--MARY HOWITT.
The marriage of Capitola and of Herbert and that of Clara and of
Traverse was fixed to take place upon the first of August, which was
the twenty-first birthday of the doctors daughter, and also the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of Ira Warfield and Marah
Rocke.
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