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Why, five hundred dollars a year less in our expenses since we were married would have left me a capital of five thousand dollars in my business." "And placed you now on the sure road to fortune." "Undoubtedly." "Take my advice, and give to Cara a full statement of your affairs. Do it at once this very day. It has been put off too long already.
In answer, a few steps from the door, the sound of a fall was heard. That was Puff, he had dropped from her arms to the floor. She had let him slip down along her dress. Cara had never treated her favorite with such indifference, or so carelessly. Leaning forward, Miss Mary fixed her eyes on the young girl. Oh, my God! What has happened? Who can tell, but something has happened, that is certain.
"The man pays me a fair rent; as much as I can conscientiously ask. I have a conscience, Miss Cara, and a sense of responsibility. It is not good that Tregarthen lets his children run wild there, so far from school." "And if, sir," she went on, "you are doing this for the children's sake, I could promise you that there are means to educate them better than any children on the Islands.
The whole season closed on February 22 with the festival of the Caristia or cara cognatio, a family reunion of the survivors in a kind of 'love-feast, which centred in the worship of the Lar Familiaris. Here we seem to have simply, as in the family rites, a peaceful and solemn acknowledgment by the community as a whole of the still subsisting relation of the living and the dead.
While Cara and Karyl had been on the second floor, a heavy Osmanli, wearing the Sultan's uniform, had stood in the center of the room above, looking about with keen, pig-like eyes, as he gave rapid commands to a half dozen Arabs of villainous visage. "You, Sayed Ayoub," he ordered, "take your pig of a self and others like unto you into that doorway by the stairs.
I am not accustomed to be asked quite like that." Peppino began to be aware of the true nature of the situation. "I see what you mean, cara," he said. "So don't let us go. Then she will take the hint perhaps." Lucia thought this over for a moment and found that she rather wanted to go.
"Cara, sposina mia! permit me to remind you of your promise." What a radiant look she gave me! "I am all impatience to fulfill it! Tell me when and how?" "Almost immediately. You know the private passage through which we entered the hotel this morning on our return from church?" "Perfectly." "Well, meet me there in twenty minutes. We must avoid being observed as we pass out.
She had never again referred to the matter, nor to any other episode of her unhappy married life, but since that day Ann had always the consciousness of something unspeakably hideous which had lain in the background of Cara Hilyard's life, marring it utterly, and the intense sympathy it aroused within her had quickened the growth of the friendship between them.
Neither Benton nor Cara had alluded to the man's overbold assertion that he would find a way. It was a futile thing said in eagerness. The day of the dance, the last day they could hope for together, came unprefaced by development. To-morrow she must take up her journey and her duty: her holiday would be at its end. It was all the greater reason why this evening should be memorable.
"Yes, sir," replied a voice on the other end. "We locked ourselves in, because there aren't any heatguns we can get to from here. The Jellies haven't gotten this far down yet. They seem to be cowed by the Toughs at the door to Miss Cara Nome's room, and the Toughs are strutting around getting themselves in the mood for an attack. We've been watching them through the window." "Good," said Placer.
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