Camiola a girl with a fortune - 1885 Author:Justin McCarthy 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 XXXI. A REFUGEE. That same night while Camiola was still looking across the scene and the skies, she heard a patter of feet outside her door, and p... more »resently a hurried tapping, and " Please may I come in, Camiola ?" She opened her door to admit little Alice. The child was in her night-gown, and looked very pale. " I stole down to speak to you, Camiola," she said, when Camiola had closed the door again. " I know something is going to happen soon ; you are going to marry Georgie and to go away, or else you won't marry him ; and you will go away from us " " My dear little Alice, what has put all these things into your head ? You are a foolish little girl." " I know it all the same," Alice said, with an air of great wisdom, " and I want to tell you that I love you better than Georgie does, and that I think it is very wicked of Georgie to want to marry you and take you away. But I shall love you always ; and I am sure you would love me better only for Georgie— and—and—listen, Camiola ; do you think papa and mamma will love me after you have gone ? " " They couldn't love you more than they do now, you silly child." " Oh yes, they could ; they are always loving some one else—Georgie, or Janette, or you, or somebody; and what I wanted to ask you is, do you think they will love me better after you have gone ? I don't want you to go, Camiola; but do you think they will care more for me when there's no one here to care for but me ? " The little thing was perfectly serious, and Camiola felt the deepest compassion for her. The morbid sensitiveness which was strong in Georgie and in Janette, had reached its acutest stage in her. Mere egotism inGeorgia had fomented it into selfishness; generosity and affection in Janette had softened and purified it into tende...« less