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Crego, who was inclined to be very censorious, alluded to the Haneys as "beggars on horseback" as she met them on the boulevard. Of all this critical comment Bertha remained, happily, unconscious, and it is probable that she would soon have won her way to a decent circle of friends had not Charles Haney descended upon them like a plague.
My wife was sitting up with her. Unfortunately the windows of her room look upon the garden, on the side opposite to that where the fire broke out." "How, then, did the countess become aware of the accident?" asked the magistrate. Without waiting for a more direct question, the countess came forward and said, "As my husband has just told you, I was sitting up with my little Bertha.
The younger daughter, the dark, large, but not fat, Bertha Haydon, who was very quick in her mind, and in her ways, and who was the favorite with her father, did not like Lena, either.
To Anne, the sweetest of all was the one written after her birth to the father on a brief absence. It was full of a proud young mother's accounts of "baby" her cleverness, her brightness, her thousand sweetnesses. "I love her best when she is asleep and better still when she is awake," Bertha Shirley had written in the postscript. Probably it was the last sentence she had ever penned.
"Don't you think, mate," said Moran, "we'd better take him up to 'Frisco with us? We've had enough fighting and killing." So it was arranged that the defeated beach-comber, the whipped buccaneer, who had "lost face" and no longer dared look his men in the eye, should be taken aboard. By four o'clock next morning Wilbur had the hands at work digging the sand from around the "Bertha Millner's" bow.
The feeling that her money would relieve her mother contrived to ease her overburdened conscience, and she was more cheerful and happy-looking that evening. The next day at an early hour, as Florence was standing in the oak parlor alone for a wonder, for neither Mary Bateman nor Kitty Sharston were present, Bertha Keys came into the room.
"Ay, Emma and Bertha are the white chicks among the black," said Eleanor, laughing; "they'll miss each other finely, I've no doubt." Avice finished her work, returned Susanna's apron, and instead of requesting advice from her Aunt, went down to the brook in search of Bertha. She found her sitting on a green bank, with very red eyes. "Well, my dear heart?" said Avice kindly to Bertha.
I feel that which is false or that which is true, rather than reason it out as mother does." Aunt Saba and her husband managed to take care of Bertha and keep her mind occupied; but before Amy's convalescence had proceeded very far the little girl was suddenly prostrated by a most violent attack of the disease, and she withered before the hot fever like a fragile flower in a simoom.
Protheroe, said Bertha, with rural dignity; 'you must not come here again until you can come merely as a friend. 'Bertha! You can't mean it! What have I done? What has changed you? 'Mr Protheroe! the rural dignity made an insulted goddess of her to Lane's fancy 'what right have you to say that I have changed?
"Softer," said her brother-in-law, turning round again. "Taroc with a musical accompaniment is a speciality of this house," said Doctor Friedrich. "Songs without words, so to speak," added Herr Martin. The others laughed. Garlan turned round towards Bertha again, for she had suddenly left off playing.
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