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"Yes, I knew that, my child," she replied; "but no one else would know it." From that moment there was between my Aunt Ann and me a subtle bond which partook of all the holiest mysteries of love. There were both motherhood and the love of lovers in my love for Annie. Annie's mother felt them, and was willing to have her own motherhood added to and ministered to by them.
The side of his face was torn and bleeding, the work of Red Annie's husband when his opponent was helpless. Jim had steeled himself for what must come, and he had to admit that he would just as soon be back in Colorado in the hands of the Indians as in the power of the present gang. At least as far as the dwarf was concerned, there was more of personal hatred than in the case of the red men.
I was only thinking my own thoughts, and they began one way and finished another." "How did they finish?" Annie's manner was quaintly amusing and Eve found herself smiling. "I'd just called you a fool, an' I'd forgot to include myself." Nor could she be induced to speak further on the matter. Peter lumbered heavily away from the house. He had known the futility of his request beforehand.
She is intensely religious as will be seen in the later story, wherein her life was much woven with mine but however much "darling Annie's" views or actions might shock her, it is "darling Annie" through it all; "You are so good" she said to me the last time I saw her, looking up at me with all her heart in her eyes; "anyone so good as you must come to our dear Lord at last!"
He dismissed it all as an inexplicable result of the disease, but a fixed fact, and a great and blessed fortune for him. My uncle, however, was less easily assured. He insisted upon delay, and upon consulting the same physicians who had studied Annie's case before.
Both fear and hesitation vanished at the friendly tones of Annie's voice. She hastily fastened on her necklace and earrings, slipped on her bracelets and stuck the coral pins in her hair. She saw a dazzling little image in the glass and turned away with a glad, proud smile. "We can't be kept waiting. Are you ready?" called Miss Day's voice in the passage.
The revulsion was too much for the poor mother's heart. She sank to the floor. He lifted her in his arms and carried her out, and for the rest of that day my Aunt Ann, that "hard and unsympathizing woman," passed from one strange fainting-fit into another, until we were in almost as great fear for her life as we had been for Annie's. At twilight Annie roused from her sleep again.
She rose, went to the window, came back to the table, stood there a moment, her eyes fixed on something far away. The swinging door between dining-room and butler's pantry opened. Annie, in her neat blue-and-white stripes, stood before her. "Shall it be steak or chops to-night, Mrs. Mc Buck?" Emma turned her head in Annie's direction then her eyes. The two actions were distinct and separate.
Edna looked in amazement at his troubled earnest countenance, and exclaimed: "Oh! if he knew all your noble charity, your unparalleled magnanimity, surely, surely, your influence would be his salvation! His stubborn, bitter heart would be melted. But, sir, I should have a right to expect Annie's sad fate if I could forget her sufferings and her wrongs." Mr.
His teeth shut hard and the fingers inside his mittens clenched. "There were people in the world who thought they could treat Bruce like that and get away with it? Annie's boy his son! Not yet, by God, not while steers were bringing nine-sixty on the hoof." Burt strode around the corner and threw the door back wide. "Bruce! Bruce! You mustn't feel so bad!"
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