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"You'll simply lose your job," said Susan, "and that'll be the end of it. If you made friends with the Carpenters, on the other hand, you'd be fixed for life. And the Carpenters are perfectly lovely people. Mrs. Carpenter is on the hospital board, and a great friend of Ella's.
Hastings talked, not wholly of the future when she would be his wife, but of the New Year's morning, years ago, when he found her sleeping in the chamber of death of the bright June afternoon, when she sat with her bare feet in the running brook of the time when she first brought comfort to his home of the dark, rainy evening, when the sight of her sitting in Ella's room, with Ella's baby on her lap, had cheered his aching heart of the storm she had braved to tell him his baby was dying of the winter night when he watched her through the window of the dusky twilight when she sat at his feet in the little library at Rose Hill and again in his sister's home on the Hudson, when he first knew how much he loved her.
Events like these have a saddening influence on the mind, and the gloom for Conrad's sudden death hung heavy o'er us Ella's mourning was long and deep. I was not grieved to see it, for sorrow makes the spirit wiser. Three years passed away little change had been among us, save that some of our aged were gone, and the young had risen around us.
So ended my visit to Runswick; and when I consider all that happened during those few weeks, I think it is small wonder that the little bay is still fresh in my memory, and that Ella's yellow ragwort made me dream of it so distinctly. For surely that month was the most important month in my life, for was it not the beginning of a new life, which, thank God, has continued ever since?
When all was still again he threw the bedding over his shoulder, went down and speedily checked Ella's wild cries that he should not delay.
Wills, at the school where I was, and Ella's means are quite enough to keep her there, holidays and all, till Leonard can give her a home. It will be much better for her, and a relief to Henry; and it will be giving back one one to Leonard! It will be one thing more that I shall be happy about.
"There was but one such name for him So soft, so kind, so eloquent." The letter was from a lady acquaintance of Ella's, written in a fine Italian hand, not very intelligible, and crossed and re-crossed in a most elaborate manner. "Commend me to a lady's epistle," he said, in a tone more nearly approaching to bitterness than his sister had ever heard from him before.
It is dreadful in sickness to be obliged to depend upon hirelings. "So I was duly installed as little Ella's nurse, and, as she was a spoiled child, my task was neither easy nor agreeable. "No sooner was the whining little creature sufficiently improved to be taken to her own home, than the house was thrown into confusion by preparations for a brilliant party.
Ella's countenance lowered, while Miss Porter exclaimed, "I declare, we may as well give up all hope, for your sister, it seems, has the first claim." "Pshaw!" said Ella, contemptuously, while Miss Porter, again turning to Mary, asked, "Did you learn his name?
What do you mean by that?" said Ella, with curious eagerness a suggestion of suspicion was in her tone. She had loosed her hold upon the girl's arms. Phyllis laughed. She put a hand round Ella's waist and led her to a sofa, saying: "Let us sit down and talk it all over. That is the lace you told me you picked up at Munich. What a design lilies!" "The Virgin's flower the Virgin's flower!
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