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The mother was still beside her dead, making arrangements for the burial. The father, sobered and conscious, had already slouched away. But at the foot of the stairs Dora, looking round, saw that David was just behind her. He came out with her. 'He was drunk when I found him, he explained, 'he had been drinking in the dinner hour.
"Yes, dear." "I wonder why it was in me to to well, not to carry on?" Doris bent and laid her thin, fair cheek against the short, bright hair again. "Your way, little girl," she whispered, "was to fly. You had to try wings." "Well, I'm a homing pigeon, I reckon." And Joan tossed her short hair back. Just then there was the toot of a horn outside. "Uncle David!"
Wolff says, in his travels of Central Asia, the people of a strange place always apply to his servant for information about himself. So the Saharans apply to my Negro servant for news or information about me. "And David sat between the two gates . . . . . and the king said, If he be alone then is tidings in his mouth . . . . . . tidings."
David Garrick went to school to Dr. Johnson in the suburbs of Lichfield, at Edial; Addison lived once at Lichfield; and Selwyn was its bishop a few years ago, and is buried in the Cathedral close; but the chief memories of the ancient town cluster around St. Chad, Johnson, and Garrick.
Yet Lucy was supremely happy as they sped along to Stalybridge. Suppose her father heard of it! She could no doubt insure his knowing; but it might set his back up still more, make him more mad than before with her and David. Eight years and more since he had spoken to her, and the other day, when he had seen her coming in Deansgate, he had crossed to the other side of the street!
Even David could no longer withhold the hand of fellowship, for Grizel would tell him nothing, except that, after all, and for reasons sufficient to herself, she had declined to become Mrs. Sandys. He sought in vain to discover how Tommy could be to blame. "And now," Tommy said grimly to Grizel, "our doctor thinks you have used me badly, and that I am a fine fellow to bear no resentment!
He moved away a little, and David heard him talking to a Master about Lady Crofts, who had come up to London for the season and how they were both very anxious about his boy "Yes, he had two children, a boy and a girl, bless 'em The boy had been ill with measles and wasn't makin' quite the quick recovery they expected. What an anxiety children were, weren't they?
David Marshall fixed an intent and anxious gaze on his son's face, and ran his hand tremulously along the arm of his chair. He knew about how Roger felt; Truesdale had more than once made him feel the same way himself. The old man had remained at home throughout the day.
On the porch steps David paused a breathless instant. From the kitchen came the sound of Mrs. Holly's sobs and of a stern voice praying. With a shudder and a little choking cry the boy turned then and crept softly upstairs to his room. He played, too, as Perry Larson had wagered. But it was not the tragedy of the closed bank, nor the honor of the threatened farm-selling that fell from his violin.
"Yes, girl," David replied, "and did you notice what is said about the benefit it will be to the city and the whole country?" In their intense excitement they had forgotten all about the artist. But as they talked like two happy children he was watching them very closely, especially the old man.
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