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In these new countries, where I was so long content to stay, I collected indispensable ingredients; I have fortified myself on every side from the possibility of error; what was a dream now takes the substance of reality; and when I offered you a son of mine I did so in a figure. That son that husband, Asenath, is myself not as you now behold me, but restored to the first energy of youth.
There would be a few merry months, then slow worry and disappointment; pretty Del accepted at last, not as the crown of his young life, but as its silent burden and misery. Poor Dick! good Dick! Who deserved more wealth of wifely sacrifice? Asenath, thinking this, crimsoned with pain and shame.
She turned faint with the sense of safety; and, with a face as white as her own, he bore her away in his arms to the hospital, over the crimson snow. Asenath looked out through the glare and smoke with parched lips. For a scratch upon the girl's smooth cheek, he had quite forgotten her. They had left her, tombed alive here in this furnace, and gone their happy way.
It's been a very hot day, and it's very hard to do anything just right on such a day. It seems to take all the life out of one." Miss Letitia agreed. "It does so. Well, she can learn it the right way before she leaves. There's plenty of time still." "Play something else for us, dear," said Miss Asenath. "Play some of the ballads."
"It isn't a place to forbid children out of, is it?" asked Asenath. "I should think the only condition would be their own best behavior," returned her husband. "They're almost always good down here," said Bel. "Children like to be where things are doing. They always feel put away, out of the good times, I think, in a nursery."
The appearance and the speech of Joseph made so deep an impression upon Asenath that no sooner had she reached her apartment than she divested herself of her robes of state and took off her jewels, and put on sackcloth instead, strewed ashes upon her head, and supplicated God amid tears to grant her pardon for her sins. In this manner she spent seven days and seven nights in her chamber.
"Did you leave Timothy down at the Branch?" queried Miss Asenath, after awhile. "Oh, I reckon he went on home," Arethusa answered carelessly. She could be thus casual in her answers to Miss Asenath, for with her no subject had pursuit unto a bitter end. Miss Letitia finished the hem of the blue dress and laid the garment carefully over the back of a chair.
The greetings of old Eli, grave, yet kindly, of Abigail, quaintly familiar and tender, of Moses, cordial and slightly condescending, and finally of Asenath, simple and natural to a degree which impressed him like a new revelation in woman, at once indicated to him his position among them. His city manners, he felt, instinctively, must be unlearned, or at least laid aside for a time.
They separated at last, going each her own way, pretty Del Ivory to her boarding-place by the canal, her companion walking home alone. This girl, Asenath Martyn, when left to herself, fell into a contented dream not common to girls who have reached her age, especially girls who have seen the phases of life which she had seen.
When I was a girl, I would have thought that a great deal to have!" But Arethusa failed to be properly impressed. Her dislike of the idea of the white dress showed so plainly in her ever-changing face, that Miss Asenath silently held out her hand and Arethusa flew to that haven, her couch. "I wouldn't worry, dear, about my dress," whispered Miss Asenath.
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