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Farewell once more. We will try to avoid one another in the future." "We will try. But can we really not find happiness together? What is the hindrance?" she asked, in a low, agitated tone, touching his hand. Mark shouldered his gun in silence, and walked out of the arbour into the brushwood. Vera stood motionless as if she were in a deep sleep.
If this weather holds, we shall ride each day through a world of sunshine and beauty; and each day's close, my wife, will find us one day nearer home. Does this please thee? Have I thought of all?" Rising, she came and stood beside him in the entrance to the arbour. A golden rose, dipping from above, rested against her hair. Her eyes were soft with tears.
He blamed himself bitterly for not having sooner recalled that conversation on the lawn. How easy it would have been, after hearing Mora's story in the arbour, to have given Hugh a word of caution before leaving Warwick.
She thought of this, as she flirted with the officer from the Presidio, and promised to make him the hero of her next book. But the party in Falconer's motor thought of her not at all. Angela was enchanted with the peninsula of Monterey. In the dark arbour of the cedar forest Falconer kept ordering the chauffeur of a hired car to slow down, or stop.
I shall give her some of my Eau de Cologne." Miss Naylor's headaches after dancing were things on which to calculate. The girls carried their books into the arbour; it was a showery day, and they had to run for shelter through the raindrops and sunlight. "The French first, Chris!"
I remember your saying to me in the garden, by the arbour, only a few days ago: 'If Fate were to deny you your freedom! I shivered even at the words.... Do you believe in Fate?" Rivière's fist was clenched as he answered: "I'll fight Fate for both of us." She was silent for a few moments. Then she asked: "Will you write a letter for me?" He brought pen and ink, and waited for her dictation.
We cannot do much for you, at present, but all that is possible will be done. I have represented your kindness to me, and these soldiers will at once erect an arbour for you, and food will be brought for you all, as soon as matters have settled down a little." The Egyptian soldiers had already begun to cut down saplings.
In this situation of mind, it cannot be imagined she had any thought about the horses; but her companion having more the power of reflection, and judging them to be the farmer's, thought it best to tye them to a tree within the garden, that so they might be secured, and sent to him in the morning; which having done, and shut the gate, she was going to follow the abbess, when she met her coming back: 'I have considered, said she, 'that my perfidious sister would rather chuse the close arbour for her rendezvous, than her own chamber, where there would be more danger of being overheard by the nuns who lie near her; go you therefore, continued she, 'and wait me in my apartment, while I search the garden.
The old lady was very precise and very particular; and as this ceremony had been observed for three successive summers without the slightest deviation from the accustomed form, she was not a little surprised on this particular morning to see the fat boy, instead of leaving the arbour, walk a few paces out of it, look carefully round him in every direction, and return towards her with great stealth and an air of the most profound mystery.
I felt at once that he had succeeded in some machination against me, and with ominous misgivings quickened my steps. I found Mrs. Ashleigh seated alone in front of the house, under a large cedar-tree that formed a natural arbour in the centre of the sunny lawn. She was perceptibly embarrassed as I took my seat beside her. "I hope," said I, forcing a smile, "that Mr.
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