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Nervous, distressed, her eyes reddened from a sleepless night of weeping, she asked him if he was too busy to spare her a moment. "Not at all," he said, rising and placing a chair for her beside his desk. Fumbling with her handkerchief and appearing apologetic for having spoken to him so sharply the night before, she told him that Alma had been away from home all night and had not returned yet.
Her spirits were exuberant; she gave a merry, mocking account of the evening, but it included no mention of Cyrus Redgrave. At the end of June her friends the Leaches moved from their old house in Elgin Road to a new one out at Kingsbury-Neasden, and when the removal was completed Alma went there to make a call, taking her husband.
He tried to put me in a taxi, too. No, you don't!" "Then the subway, dearest. You'll sit quietly beside Alma in the subway, won't you, Carrie. Alma's so tired." Suddenly Carrie began to whimper. "My baby! Don't let her see me. My baby. What am I good for? I've ruined her life. My precious sweetheart's life. I hit her once Louis in the mouth. God won't forgive me for that."
By some mysterious instinct of their sex the girls had gathered with glistening eyes in front of the chaplain's deserted quarters, where Alma leaned against the wall with her insteps crossed and while the others talked she smiled, as much as to say, "I told you so."
'What do you mean? Go by ship? get out of the country? 'I don't think so. He is far more likely to be found somewhere in a way that would save trouble. Alma flashed a look of intelligence. 'You think so, she panted. 'You really think he has done that? 'I feel afraid of it.
"My regiment is in his brigade." "Yes, yes! I am aware of that. But have you made yourself known to him, I mean?" The young sergeant-major knew that his gallantry at the Alma had won him his general's approval, but he was too modest to refer to that episode. "I have never claimed the relationship, sir," he answered, simply, but with proud reticence; "it would not have beseemed my position."
When their conversation was over, he wished her to go with him to a restaurant for tea; but Alma insisted on catching a certain train at Baker Street, and Dymes had to be satisfied with the promise of another interview shortly. A visit was due from Mrs. Frothingham, who had not been seen at Pinner for more than six months.
'Goodness knows, I oughtn't to, after all the lessons I've had and the pains I've given. But with you it's different, dear. You know very well that, if you liked, you could become a professional, and make a name. 'I might have done, Alma admitted; 'but marriage put an end to that. You have too much sense to think I mean that I repent it.
But Alma said unto him: The Spirit constraineth me that I must not stretch forth mine hand; for behold the Lord receiveth them up unto himself, in glory; and he doth suffer that they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the judgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be just; and the blood of the innocent shall stand as a witness against them, yea, and cry mightily against them at the last day.
With honest pride in their Alma Mater, they will thank God that they were trained for the battle of life by James McCosh.
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