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Vernon," she said, avoiding his eye, "deserves candour in me; I cannot affect to misunderstand you. But you take me by surprise; I was so unprepared for this. Give me time, I must reflect." "Reflection is dull work in the country; you can reflect more amusingly in town, my fair cousin." "I will wait, then, till I find myself in town."
"Cousin Betty; and she told us the story of Patricia's ring, Uncle Allan, don't you wish we could find it?" Allan Whittredge smiled at the eager face. "I can't say I care much about it," he replied; then seeing her disappointment, he added, "It was a handsome old ring. Should you like to have it?" "I'd like to see it; but of course it wasn't meant for me.
The girl's clear voice had a curious vibration in it as she spoke. "Do you want to see him particularly?" Enid took courage and looked at her. The girl wore a black hat; her dress was severely plain, and her face was pale. Enid thought there was nothing remarkable about her therefore that she could not be Cynthia West. "I am his cousin," she explained simply, "and my name is Vane Enid Vane."
Big Josh's daughters have read the riot act, so I hear, and they say if their old cousin comes to them without being invited they are going to try some visiting on their own hook and leave Big Josh to do the entertaining.
How short her course was, too! I think she died at eighteen." "Do tell me about her, uncle," said Alice. "Cousin Janet can, better than I, my darling. Have you never told Alice her history, cousin?" "No, it is almost too sad a tale for Alice's ear, and there is something holy, in my mind, in the recollection of the sorrows of that young person.
He wanted to go beyond the hills and seek what he knew must be there. The valley was too narrow, too placid. He longed for conflict and accomplishment. He felt power and desire and the lust of endeavour stirring in him. Oh, to go over the hills to a world where men lived! Such had been the goal of all his dreams. When his mother died he sold the farm to his cousin, Stephen Marshall.
The ghost, then, was naturally very anxious to show that he had not lost his influence over the Stiltons, with whom, indeed, he was distantly connected, his own first cousin having been married en secondes noces to the Sieur de Bulkeley, from whom, as every one knows, the Dukes of Cheshire are lineally descended.
But before I could speak a single word Cousin Maud, with whom were the Magister and old Pirkheimer the member of council, cried out as soon as she saw me: "Only imagine, Margery, what rare tidings his Excellency has brought us."
She flung herself into her father's chair to consider of seeing Lady Lucy, of writing to Violet, of breaking the tidings to her aunt, of speaking to her Cousin Hugh; but no connected reflection could be summoned up nothing but visions of an Athenian owl, and green cotton umbrella. At length the sound of the opening door made her start up. 'Have I interrupted you? asked her cousin.
There was no one at the house but the servants, so I asked Sally Evans to stay with me. Peggy," turning toward her cousin suddenly, "I never can tell you what a help she was. That I had been a spy at Middlebrook was against me. That I had been banished the city just the year before militated against anything that I undertook.
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