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'With all her queenly ways, she could face poverty bravely I know it. 'So you can any of you, if a man's making love to you. You care little enough what you eat, and not much more what you wear, if he tells you it becomes you; but that's not the poverty that grinds and crushes. It's what comes home in sickness; it's what meets you in insolent letters, in threats of this or menaces of that.
Angelique rushed to meet him, crying "Ah! Monsieur le duc, is it you?" "What is this I hear, Angelique?" said the Duc de Vitry. "I was told below that three men had visited you this evening; but only two have gone out where is the third? Ha! I do not need long to find him," he added, as he caught sight of the chevalier, who stood his ground bravely enough.
While she was standing looking in some dismay at the trampled bed, she remembered the rake standing in the corner. It was heavy, so heavy she could hardly carry it, and far too clumsy for her to wield properly, but she worked bravely, and tried to forget her aches; she had not a very critical eye either, and soon the bed, to her eyes, looked quite neat and tidy. Then came the crowning moment.
Come what might, she was helpless in the hands of this man and he seemed a person to be trusted. "Come, Elsa," she said, bravely deciding to face whatsoever might arise. "You may wear the second of my skirts."
Gifted hastened to impart the joyful news to his mother, and to break the fact to Susan Posey that he was about to leave them for a while, and rush into the deliriums and dangers of the great city. Susan smiled. Gifted hardly knew whether to be pleased with her sympathy, or vexed that she did not take his leaving more to heart. The smile held out bravely for about a quarter of a minute.
Miss Penny's natural goodness of heart impelled her to the most delicate consideration towards Mrs. Pixley. Hennie Penny, you see, had come bravely through dire troubles of her own, and tribulation softens the heart as it does the ormer.
And yet even in those days there was much to learn from him; and above all his fine spirit of piety, bravely and trustfully accepting life, and his singular delight in the heroic. His piety was, indeed, a thing of chief importance. "All dogma is to me mere form," he wrote; "dogmas are mere blind struggles to express the inexpressible.
"We'll do our best," she rejoined bravely. "Listen!" he said, with some sternness. "If it should knit, which I doubt, it will take six weeks or two months before I can use it. Do you know what will happen before two months before one month before two weeks, even?" She only looked at him questioningly. "Snow!" he said shortly.
But he had smiled bravely at her in spite of the trouble in his blue eyes. "Don't mind, Mums. It is all right," he had said steadily. "We've got to win. We can't risk my darned ankle's flopping. It's the bleachers for me. The game's the thing." The game had always been the thing for Phil.
"Wear them!" she cried, with gathering fire in her tones, and her eyes dry of tears, "wear them, and let the American hounds see what a Mexican officer and gentleman looked like before they had set their base, usurping feet on our necks!" And she followed him to the gate, and stood erect, bravely waving her handkerchief as he galloped off, till he was out of sight.
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