Be explicit; what would you have me to do, Miss Mayfield? Only
indicate my work, and tell me how to set about the accomplishment of it,
and never knight served liege lady as I will serve you!"
Marian smiled.
"How? Oh, you must make yourself a position from which to influence
people! I do not know that I can advise you how; but you will find a
way, as--were I a man, I should!"
"Being a woman, you have done wonders!"
"For a woman," said Marian, with a glance full of archness and
merriment.
"No, no; for any one, man or woman! But your method, Marian? I beg your
pardon, Miss Mayfield," he added, with a blush of ingenuous
embarrassment.
"Nay, now," said the frank girl; "do call me Marian if that name springs
more readily from your lips than the other. Almost all persons call me
Marian, and I like it."
A rush of pleasure thrilled all through his veins; he gave her words a
meaning and a value for himself that they did not certainly possess; he
forgot that the grace extended to him was extended to all--nay, that she
had even said as much in the very words that gave it. He answered:
"And if I do, fairest Marian, shall I, too, hear my own Christian name
in music from your lips?"
"Oh, I do not know," said the beautiful girl, laughing and blushing.
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