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As soon as she heard the horses galloping up she ran out to the balcony. 'Is that you, Sam? she called. 'Where are they? 'Mas'r Haley's a-restin' at the tavern. He's drefful fatigued, missis. 'And Eliza, Sam? 'Come up here, Sam, called Mr. Shelby, who had followed his wife, 'and tell your mistress what she wants to know.
A teacup which is filled so full that it overflows into the saucer is a perfect thorn in the flesh to me. So is bacon which is burnt to a cinder. I hardly did more than mention it, but Eliza seemed put out; she said I did nothing but find fault, and as for the bacon, I had better go into the kitchen and find fault with the girl, for it was the girl who had cooked it.
Why do you not answer me? If love is extinguished between a married couple, cannot friendship and confidence still survive? Are we not two companions united in making the same journey? Can it be said that during the journey the one must never hold out his hand to the other to raise up a comrade or to prevent a comrade's fall? But I have perhaps said too much and I am wounding your pride Eliza!
After their first breathless "Oh!" of pleasure there was a silence of mutual consultation, which Ann Eliza at last broke by saying: "You better go with Mr. Ramy, Evelina. I guess we don't both want to leave the store at night."
Natalie picked up the discarded clothing, which crackled stiffly under her touch and parted from the bare boards with a tearing sound. "Frozen! The idea!" said she. Eliza poked among the other garments which hung against the wall and found them also rigid. The nail-heads behind them were coated with ice.
The cold glimmer of the light of night reflected on snow came in at the diamond-shaped window, and the little white bed was just shadowed forth to Sophia's sight. The girl in it might have been asleep, she remained so quiet. "Are you thinking about your father?" "I don't know." "Do you dislike being here?" "No; but " "But what? What is troubling you, Eliza? You're not a girl to cry for nothing.
But the sermon came to an end without any line of conduct having suggested itself; and I walked home in some depression, feeling sadly that Venus was in the ascendant and in direful opposition, while Auriga the circus star drooped declinant, perilously near the horizon. By the irony of fate, Aunt Eliza, of all people, turned out to be the Dea ex machina: which thing fell out in this wise.
It frightened us horribly. Why, what a bump on your poor head! And then she talked to me a bit, and presently she said she and her sister had not wished people to know they were at home, because And then she stopped short and grew very red, and I said, 'I thought you were all at Scarborough; your servant told Eliza so. Why didn't you want people to know you were at home?
"But where are Chasteler and Hormayr, who were to join us from Carinthia? I think they are tarrying too long." "But the Bavarians do not tarry," said Eliza, "and they are savage and cruel men. I did not enter the town of Sterzing, but the people on the road told me how the Bavarians killed, burned, and plundered there yesterday; and those who told me cried with rage and grief.
Eliza, with a much louder scream, had found out the same thing and announced it differently. "They ain't got no insides," said she. The seven members of the audience seated among the wilderness of chairs had, indeed, no insides to speak of. Their bodies were bolsters and rolled-up blankets, their spines were broom-handles, and their arm and leg bones were hockey sticks and umbrellas.
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