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It was so late, however, that we had to give this plan up and get ready for dinner. It was a dreadful disappointment. Martha hadn't come yet. It was half-past five and dark, and then it was quarter of six, and then it was six, and we went down to dinner, but she hadn't come yet. And then it was half-past six, and we went down the avenue to the Lodge to watch the car unload, but no Martha.
We have to send him all he asks for, or else he declares he will call on papa, and not only tell him about the advertisement, but all sorts of horrible things which are not true at all. He won't believe that it was only to amuse ourselves that we sent the notice to the paper, and he hints the most dreadful things, and says papa and Mrs. Joy will be sure to believe him!
I thought I must write you this, and have it over with. This is the style of letter I have always torn up, but this time it goes. I think I will practice the piano now, and try to get some gladness into my soul again. MY DEAR, DEAR THYRSIS: There is a dreadful sort of letter which I wrote you last night which I haven't sent you yet.
This virtuous statesman, after having given his estimate of the population and revenue of the French West Indian colonies, proceeds thus: "The colonies of France contain, as we have seen, near five hundred thousand slaves, and it is from the number of these poor wretches that the inhabitants set a value on their plantations. What a dreadful prospect! and how profound a subject for reflection!
"Shut her up in a dark place," answered the Little Pink Bear. "Oh, that must be a dungeon cell!" cried Dorothy, horrified. "How dreadful!" "Well, we must get her out of it," said the Wizard. "That is what we came for, and of course we must rescue Ozma. But how?" Each one looked at some other one for an answer, and all shook their heads in a grave and dismal manner.
"Yes, yes," she said, her voice perfectly under control. "He is dead shockingly murdered. What I mean is, that while the event is very dreadful still, it does not really concern me more than any other crime of the same nature which we see staring at us from the columns of the newspapers every day. This man's being in my mind so much of late caused me to become unnerved when I heard the news."
She had been walking the floor during the last half hour peering out now and then into the dark, with ears wide open for his step. "I was so worried, my precious," she cried, drawing his cheek down to her lips. "You stayed so long. Is it very dreadful?" Jack put his arm around her, led her into the sitting-room and shut the door. Then the two settled beside each other on the sofa.
"May he never come back! O God! a hundred deaths would not satisfy me! A hundred graves were not sufficient to hide him from my sight!" She groaned and clasped her hand across her eyes. "What dreadful thing has occurred? Tell me, you know that you can trust me." "Trust! no, no; not even the archangels that fan the throne of God. I have done with trust. Take me in your room a little while.
"And leave me here alone?" she cried, with a horrified glance at the abyss. "No, thank you! I should be over that ledge before you came back! There's a dreadful fascination in it even now. No! I think I'd rather go at once! I never shall be stronger as long as I stay near it; I may be weaker."
At this, Euryale also forgot the horrors which surrounded them, till Melissa called her back to the dreadful present; for, with bowed head and in deep anxiety, she desired to know whether her friend knew anything of her relations and Diodoros. The matron had a painful struggle with herself.
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