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Denys!" he exclaimed with relief. "Madame, I beg that you will pardon me! I am come to you in distress the most profound. You will listen to me, yes?" He regarded her with quick black eyes that both confided and besought. Avery's heart was beating in great throbs, she felt strangely breathless and uncertain of herself. "Where do you come from?" she said. "Who are you?"
She crept away upstairs to her room. She was lying there across the bed when Avery swept in a splendid, transfigured Avery, flushed triumphant. Janet sat up, pallid, tear-stained, and looked at her. "Janet," said Avery, "I am going to marry Bruce Gordon next Wednesday night instead of Randall Burnley." Janet sprang forward and caught Avery's hand. "You must not," she cried wildly.
It was kindly spoken, so kindly that the flare of anger died out of Piers on the instant, and the sweetness dormant in him that latent sweetness that had won Avery's heart came swiftly to the surface. He threw himself down again, looking into the alert, green eyes with an oddly rueful smile. "All right, doctor!" he said. "I shan't go to her if she doesn't want me.
Nye's candidacy for the high office to which he aspires has brought him into such prominence that at the mass meeting held last evening in Jimmy Avery's barber-shop, he was recognized at once by a Maine man while making a telling speech in favor of putting in a stone culvert at the draw above Mandel's ranch.
Stanbury Cliffs was no more than a little fishing-town at the foot of the sandy cliff a sheltered nest of a place in which the sound of the waves was heard all day long, but which no bitter wind could reach. The peace of it was balm to Avery's spirit. She revelled in its quiet. Jeanie loved it too.
But her thoughts were interrupted by the return of Miss Avery's niece, and were so tranquillising that she suffered the interruption gladly. It was quicker to go out by the back door, and, after due explanations, they went out by it. The niece was now mortified by innumerable chickens, who rushed up to her feet for food, and by a shameless and maternal sow.
He left your soul out and you're not to blame for that. I don't blame you, Thomas Jefferson, and of course the Lord don't. But Mrs. Avery's boarder oh, oh, dear, I'm afraid Mrs. Avery's boarder will! You mustn't tell I mean I mustn't. Nobody must know what it was that glittered in the grass. Do you want to be searched?
Margaret followed her to ask whether Henry knew about Miss Avery's rudeness. "Oh yes." "I wonder, then, why he let me ask her to look after the house." "But she's only a farm woman," said Dolly, and her explanation proved correct. Henry only censured the lower classes when it suited him. He bore with Miss Avery as with Crane because he could get good value out of them.
I never thought you were that sort. I thought you were at least honest." "Did you?" said Piers. He was holding himself very straight and stiff, just as he had held himself on that day in the winter when she had so indignantly intervened to save his dog from his ungovernable fury. But he did not seem to resent her attack, and in spite of herself Avery's own resentment began to wane.
But I tell John when I get away from home, it feels so good I STAY! 'I don't get away any too often, I says, 'and I guess I've earnt the right. Well, I must be going if I'm ever going to! Good-bye, Miss Plummer good-bye, Rebecca Mary. All is, I hope Mis' Avery's boarder'll find her diamond, don't you? But I don't calculate she will. Well, good afternoon.
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