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"Oh, we must stop!" screamed Dora, a moment later. "Look ahead!" Dick did so, and his heart gave a leap of fear. Below them the stony road was narrow, and on one side was a rocky gully and on the other some thick bushes. In the roadway was a farmer with a large farm wagon filled with lime. Should they hit the turnout below somebody would surely be hurt and perhaps killed.
Ives with her soothing balm; and Dora was about to sit down and write him a note, when he strolled in through the drawing-room window, and announced that his cooks mother was ill, and that he should be very much obliged if Mrs. Polton would give him some dinner that evening.
The girls came down to see them off, and Dora warned Dick again to be on guard. It was decided that Lesher and old Jerry should do the rowing. Baxter sat in the bow of the boat, and Dick in the stern. The trip to the wreck was accomplished in almost utter silence. Everybody was busy with his thoughts.
A great many of them are not. If I had a son at the wars I should never think he was dead till I heard he was, and perhaps not then, considering everything. After we had found this out we held a council. Dora said, 'We must do something for the soldier's widowed mother. We all agreed, but added 'What? Alice said, 'The gift of money might be deemed an insult by that proud, patriotic spirit.
I made another attempt at kissing her, but was repulsed again "Not now, anyway, my loved one," she said, entreatingly. "Let a few days pass. You don't want me to feel bad, do you, dearest?" I looked sheepish. I was convinced that it was merely a passing mood NEXT Monday, when I was ready to go to my place of business, Dora left the house, pitcher in hand, before I rose from the breakfast-table.
She was handsomer than ever, and tremendously stylish. William Roy had one of the biggest incomes in the city, and he was quite affectionate. He had been intensely fond of Dora he often spoke of her still, at least to her own relations; and her portrait, the last time Mrs. Poor Dora had had no children; but Georgina was making that all right, she had a beautiful boy. Mrs.
The city "went over the top" in its quota of both memberships and funds, and that before Christmas. The girls of Central High could rest on their laurels over the holidays, knowing that they had done well. "But wait till Gee Gee gets after us after New Year's," prophesied Bobby. "Don't be so pessimistic," said Jess. "Maybe she won't." "Why won't she?" demanded Dora Lockwood.
Robinson," cried May effusively, "we are so tired just dead beat though Annie there does not like me to talk slang but it is so expressive, don't you think so? It is not to-day only, but yesterday and the day before, we have been hunting for situations, and have not found them yet. Do you know, Dora and I are going to take situations immediately if we can get them?"
But the loss of flesh was extraordinary for so short a time. The small face was so thinned and blanched that the tangled masses of golden-brown hair in which it was framed seemed ridiculously out of proportion to it; the hand playing with some grapes on the counterpane was of a ghostly lightness. Dora was shocked almost beyond speaking.
Annie, too, was sitting idle at a short distance, with her hat thrown on the bed, but still wearing her jacket; and Dora, in her walking dress, was standing like a lady-in-waiting, or a sentry, behind Mrs. Millar's chair. Annie and Dora remained silent, looking at the intruders in a peculiar manner.
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