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Miss Adair, Hear my prayer Do I dare Call my love when I meet her "Anita"? Anita! Anita!! In the silence that followed she whisked out a box of shrimp-pink letter-paper she had bought at a drugstore. It was daintily ruled in violet lines and had a mauve "A" at the top. She wrote on it the simple but thrilling answer: DEAR TOMMIE, You bet your boots!
Although Adair did not believe that any violent convulsion would take place, he naturally became more anxious than before to escape from the rock. Any spot in the neighbourhood of an active volcano is no pleasant place to live in.
Second Brigade, Colonel JOHN ADAIR McDOWELL. Sixth Iowa, Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Corse; Fortieth Illinois, Colonel J. W. Booth; Forty-sixth Ohio, Colonel O. C. Walcutt; Thirteenth United States Infantry, First Battalion, Major D. Chase.
"Of course you'll be too grand to do a hand's turn about the house when you come back again from Helmsley Court!" said Mrs. Colwyn, snappishly. "Dear mamma, when I am only going for half a day!" "Oh, I know the ways of girls. Because Miss Adair, your fine friend, does nothing but sit in a drawing-room all day, you'll be sure to think that you must needs follow her example!"
He never saw her when she was little and helpless. She's your youth she's everything vigorous that you were. The first time he affords you with a reason for hating him, you'll hate him like The way you said: so that you could brain him without compunction. Adair I could cheerfully kill him." Tabs felt rather than heard the pent-up passion in his voice; it alarmed him with its sincerity.
Here and there a few might be seen loosing their shoe-ties, or getting ready to cast off their flushing coats; but no other sign was observable that an awful struggle for life and death was about to commence. "Where are we driving to, Jack?" asked Adair; "I cannot make out through all this spray."
Still some weeks went by, and Adair remained without a ship; he at length got a cheery reply from his old friend in answer to his letter, urging him to keep up his courage, and prophesying that all would turn out well at last.
Adair was not the woman to leave her post of observation at such a moment, and from the cover of the curtains she continued to watch with all the curiosity of a woman in a village who draws down the blind, that unobserved she may get a better peep at the stranger passing down the street.
As he and Terry chugged their way to Mulberry Tree Court he eyed her, sitting beside him. Would he ever get her? If he did, would she prove to be one of his really big things? All men must have thought that their wives would be the really big things in their lives before they married them. How many of them thought that six months after they were married? There was Adair, for instance.
In passing through the gallery, Mrs. Adair found the copy of the letter; and whilst she was reading it, Miss Vincent cautiously advanced, looking earnestly upon the floor. On seeing the paper in Mrs. Adair's hands, she hastily exclaimed, "O, ma'am, that is mine! I have just dropped it: it is a copy of music, I believe!" "Then I will look it over again," said Mrs.
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