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There was another fellow. Effie would be all right. Yet, after she had seen Effie it had never been the same thing. She couldn't remember, quite, how it had been. She could remember the ecstasy, how it would come swinging through you, making you blind and deaf to impersonal, innocent things while it lasted.
Sharpitlaw took a chair, and, commanding the turnkey to retire, he opened the conversation, endeavouring to throw into his tone and countenance as much commiseration as they were capable of expressing, for the one was sharp and harsh, the other sly, acute, and selfish. "How's a' wi' ye, Effie? How d'ye find yoursell, hinny?" A deep sigh was the only answer.
I must think, however, of what your father will say to this. I can only warn you that if there is one person your father dreads and dislikes more than another, it is the modern girl. He said to me, 'Thank God, Effie has none of that hideous modernity about her.
You can tell Effie that." "I shall have two or three things to tell her besides that," said John, looking down on her with the grave smile which she liked so much to see. "I shall be sorry to tell her how pale and ill you look," he added, his face growing grave as he looked. "Oh, that's only because I am tired just now; and besides, I was always `a pale-faced thing, as Aunt Elsie used to say.
"Aye! there's a sunset for you, chicky," said Father Gilder, coming up from the shore. "There'll be no storm after that! Do you remember your last birth day, little one, when there was such a sudden storm came up?" Yes, indeed, Effie remembered it and wondered whether the sky would always be clear now.
It's quite natural that she should want to go to them." Owen visibly controlled himself. "Of course quite natural." He spoke to Sophy. "But why didn't you tell me so? Why did you come first to my step-mother?" Anna intervened with her calm smile. "That seems to me quite natural, too. Sophy was considerate enough to tell me first because of Effie." He weighed it.
'He knows what he is about. 'Egad! so they all do. A young fellow now of two or three and twenty knows the world as men used to do after as many years of scrapes. I wonder where there is such a thing as a greenhorn. Effie Crabbs says the reason he gives up his house is, that he has cleaned out the old generation, and that the new generation would clean him.
Tessie is learning the fiddle and I know she'd be glad to show off, and so would Effie, if we could get our organ out into the barn." "And you can whistle," put in Allee, all excitement as Peace unfolded her brilliant plan. "You sound just like the birds, and Gail said only the other night that you did better than lots of people who have taken lessons.
"Oh, Effie, would I say anything if it wasn't for your own good?" "You you were down on him from the start!" "Effie darling, you must be mad! Would I say anything if it wasn't for our girl's good to " "I oh, Mamma Hat, I'm sorry, darling! I never meant a word. I didn't! I didn't, darling!" They embraced there in the shrouding darkness, the tears flowing. "Oh, Effie Effie!"
"What is the matter. Effie?" she said. "How white and worn you look! Why have you come back to-day?" "I wanted to see you, mother, so I got an afternoon off duty. Sister Kate was kind I begged of her to let me come. I have a great longing to see you." "Well, my dear, I'm all right. The fact is, I get better and better." Mrs. Staunton was seated by the window.
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