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Ella was clothed in little besides a light wrapper, and had shivered more than once in the night air. George tried to induce her and Mrs. Bodine to accept of the mattress, but they asked as a favor that it might be placed under Mrs. Hunter. He readily complied, saying he would get another for them.
This may be all sophistry as much of our better reasoning on things we know nothing about often is but if it be true, then may I trust to account for my present sadness." "Have you really, then, sad forebodings?" inquired Ella, quickly and earnestly. "Against my will and sober reason, dear Ella, I must own I have.
Each human heart persists in learning the big lessons of life at first hand. We refuse to learn any other way. The tragedies of others interest us as fiction. We make the application to others never to ourselves. Jim's familiar footstep echoed through the hall, and Mary sprang to the door with a cry of joy. Ella hurried into the kitchenette and busied herself with dinner.
She waited apprehensively, wondering whether Ella was not seeing the world-in-general, or had really specified against herself. Could it be that Ella was one of those women whom Harry had alluded to as running after Kerr?
During the next eight months Phyllis received many letters from Ella some from Switzerland, some from Italy, and one from Calcutta. Ella had gone to India to make further inquiries on the subject of Buddhism. At any rate, no one whose heart was set upon building up a New Church could afford, she said, to ignore Buddhism as a power. Mr. Holland agreed with her, she said.
"Well, well, Ella," rejoined Reynolds, "I crave pardon for my heedlessness; and promise you, on that score at least, no more cause for offence in future." "Offence!" said Ella, quickly, catching at the word: "O, no no not offence, Mr. Reynolds!
It was the one good turn the owner of the Ella did us on that hideous return journey; for, during most of the sixteen days that it took us to get back, he lay in his cabin, alternating the wild frenzy of delirium tremens with quieter moments when he glared at us with crafty, murderous eyes, and picked incessantly at the bandages that tied him down.
She looked at Nora and Ella in the distance that is, just far enough away to be out of her society, eagerly standing over the hampers; and for a moment felt not very well pleased, either with them or her cousin Eloise.
"Will you let me see it too?" said Elsie eagerly; "do let me see it." "You may look over it together," said Miss Rennie good-naturedly, "though I do not show it to every one. It will perhaps convince Mr. Brandon that it is nothing so wonderful to write verses, and make him less distant in his manner. My own pieces are signed Ella."
It is unworthy of either of us!" "A farce? A tragedy!" said he. "I want you, Ella. I told you that I could not live without you." "You want me? You want me, Bertie?" said she. Tears were in her eyes and in her voice, for there was to her a passion of pathos in those words of his. "You want me, and you know that it is only my soul that shall be lost if I give myself to you.
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