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"A good many things," the master answered. "She shuns all the other girls. She is getting a strange influence over my fellow-teacher, a young lady, you know Miss Helen Darley, perhaps? I am afraid this girl will kill her. I never saw or heard of anything like it, in prose at least; do you remember much of Coleridge's Poems, Doctor?" The good old Doctor had to plead a negative. "Well, no matter.
"I am sorry, of course. I am afraid it will do him harm," and then she made a pause, and stumbled over her sewing with fingers which felt feeble and powerless to the very tips all on account of this fever she had had.
If I don't do one or the other he will put me into a scrape that I can't work out of." "Now you stay here and I will go out and snoop around a bit," said Merrick, when the sound of the hoof-beats could be no longer heard. "What I am afraid of is that they will leave some of their men to watch the house."
Meanwhile the Athenians took up their dead under truce from the Aetolians, and retired to Naupactus, and from thence went in their ships to Athens; Demosthenes staying behind in Naupactus and in the neighbourhood, being afraid to face the Athenians after the disaster.
He cogitated a little, then added, "Don't let them hurry you. Take time to know your man, and if you are not satisfied yourself, if there is anything that jars upon you, never mind what other people think, have nothing to do with him." When Beth went home, she found her mother sitting by the drawing-room window placidly knitting and looking out. "I am afraid I am very late," Beth said.
He thought her a hypocrite; he thought himself insulted. He judged that she was a novice at such work, but for all that was very much afraid that she took kindly to it. He spent a great part of the night thinking it over, and before he went to sleep had made up his mind. Early in the morning he was out and about; before the day-meal he sent for Gudrid.
But he was afraid to say it, or anything else that might disturb the delicate balance of her trust in him. In reality he had no wish to betray that trust.
"But I'm afraid that this is where you drop out, Mrs. Hartigan." So they went down to the headquarters of the boss. It was an ordinary Chicago saloon of less than ordinary pretensions. The plate-glass and polished-mahogany era had not yet set in. The barkeeper was packing the ice chest and a couple of "types" were getting their "reg'lar" as the two strangers from another world entered.
"Certainly," answered Mrs. Channing. "In six months from this, James, you may be as well and active as ever." Mr. Channing raised his hands, as if warding off the words. Not of the words was he afraid, but of the hopes they whispered. "I think too much about it, already, Mary. It is not as though I were sure of getting to the medicinal baths."
But nobody appeared to be afraid of us, and we concluded that the near vicinity of Colonel Sheldon's Horse accounted for what we saw. It was pleasant to see women spinning beside windows in which flowers bloomed, and children gazing shyly at us from behind stone walls and palings.
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