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Hamilton that you have promised you will not do so. Any other papers you can easily evade signing. As for your private correspondence, obtain a social secretary, and permit her to sign everything one whom you can trust say, one of your girls from here, that girl downstairs, for instance. What is her name?" Anita Lawton rose, and a peculiar pained expression passed over her features.
Horsey! an I jes' had to take him up an' dress him an' bring him here. An' that's Gord's truth, Miss Anita," a phrase Kettle habitually used when making doubtful statements. The baby was so obviously happy in this breach of all nursery discipline that Anita had not the heart to send him home. Anita was a soft-hearted creature.
"I understand now!" said she. "Oh it is loathsome!" And her eyes blazed upon her mother. "Loathsome," I echoed, dashing at my opportunity. "If you are not merely a chattel and a decoy, if there is any womanhood, any self-respect in you, you will keep faith with me." "Anita!" cried Mrs. Ellersly. "Go to your room!"
"You 'll get a little embarrassment out of it yourself before you get through!" Rodaine was scowling at him. Again Anita Richmond caught his arm. "Maurice! Stop it! How could the thing have been premeditated when he did n't even know your father? Come let's go on. The crowd's getting thicker."
Aubyn" who elbowed him out; and without being in the least aware of it, the flattered Anita, like an adroitly hooked trout, was being "played" in and out and round about the eddies and the deeps until the angler had her quite ready for the final dip of the net at the landing point.
The chaplain, passing along, reassured them. "Nothing but a few bruises and scratches," he said. "I asked the surgeon if I was needed and he told me there was nothing doing in my line; I am going to the hospital though, to see the man's wife it is Mrs. Lawrence. Good afternoon, Anita. Now don't let this trifling accident break your little heart. It's nothing, I tell you."
She was the first woman to wear a Garibaldi waist, although for the most part she wore men's clothes, with two pistols in her belt and a rifle in her hands, and wherever Joseph went, there went Anita. She was his servant, his slave, his comrade, his wife. Read his autobiography and you will find how lasting, loyal and tender his devotion was toward her.
In the silence of the dully vibrating ship it was utterly horrible.... It lasted an instant a single long scream; then was abruptly stilled. And with blood pounding my temples and rushing like ice through my veins, I recognized it. Anita! "Good God, what was that?" Dr. Frank's face had gone white. Snap stood like a statue of horror.
She reddened a little, smiled a great deal, dazzlingly, was altogether different from the ice-locked Anita of a short time before, different as June from January. And her hand so intensely alive seemed extremely comfortable in mine. Even as my blood responded to that electric touch, I had a twinge of cynical bitterness.
"You see," said Carlyle softly, "this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl." He turned to her, but she was silent. "You see, don't you, Anita I mean, Ardita?" Again she made no answer. She had been sound asleep for some time.
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