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Edna opened the locket, and if Gertrude had stepped into the golden frame, the likeness could not have been more startling. She looked at it until her lips blanched and were tightly compressed, and the memory of Gertrude became paramount. Murray Hammond's face she barely glanced at, and its extraordinary beauty stared at her like that of some avenging angel.
If we could only meet, as it were, accidentally, it would be better for both of us." "I see what you mean," returned Bessie, whose ready sympathy made her quick to detect his meaning "Edna is very proud; you think it would be wiser to leave her in ignorance of this interview.
Oh. grandpa! did you hear me praying for you yesterday? Dear Grandy my own dear Grandy! I did pray for you while you were dying here alone! Oh, my God! what have I done, that you should take him away from me? Was not I on my knees when he died? Oh! what will become of me now? Nobody to care for Edna now! Oh, grandpa! grandpa! beg Jesus to ask God to take me too!"
I tell you what, Bessie, I mean to dress well, even when I am a cranky old maid; there is a great support in clothes and no, it can't be " "Well, finish your sentence," observed Bessie. "Have you seen a ghost, Edna?" laughing rather nervously, for Edna had changed color in a singular manner.
I would prove a model son." "Very well. I shall acquaint him with your proposition, and threaten an immediate compliance with it if he does not come home soon." Mrs. Murray rang the bell for the servant to lock up the house, and said sutto voce: "What a noble fellow Gordon is! If I had a daughter I would select him for her husband. Where are you going, Edna?"
"Mother never likes us to be late," hesitated Bessie; but she lingered, nevertheless. This was not an ordinary evening, and there were exceptions to every rule, so she knelt down on the rug a moment, and watched Edna taking down the long plaits of fair hair that had crowned her shapely head. "What lovely hair!" thought Bessie; "what a beautiful young creature she is altogether!"
This had been the blacksmith's pet, fed by his hand, chained when he went to the shop, and released at his return; and grim and repulsively ugly though he was, the only playmate Edna had ever known; had gamboled around her cradle, slept with her on the sheepskin, and frolicked with her through the woods, in many a long search for Brindle.
"No, but Is it all mine, mother, to do what I choose with, even if I don't spend it for the club?" "Why, of course, my dear. You earned it, and if I am able to help you out a little that should make no difference." "Then I think I know what I should like to do with it. I shall make two secrets of it and one I shall tell you, mother, and the other I can tell Edna."
On this special afternoon he was doing something to his wheel, getting it in order for a long ride which he had planned for the next day. Edna stood watching him, ready to hand a tool or run for a piece of rag to be used in cleaning, or to fill the oil can from the bottle on the shelf upstairs. "Where are you going to-day, Cousin Ben?"
While I value you as a friend, and am rejoiced to see you again, I should regret to learn that you had prolonged your stay even one hour on my account." "You are ungrateful, Edna! And I begin to realize that you are utterly heartless." "If I am, at least I have never trifled with or deceived you, Mr. Leigh."
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