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Emily was, at length, roused from her reverie by the far-off sound of the castle clock, to which she listened not without some degree of awe, as it rolled away on the breeze. Another and another note succeeded, and died in sullen murmur among the mountains: to her mournful imagination it seemed a knell measuring out some fateful period for her.
"No, no, my children," answered Mrs. Fairchild, half smiling. "What! would you give the poor lady pain by telling her wherefore you come to beg her pardon?" "No," replied Lucy, thoughtfully, "that will not do, I see." "But we will not wear our bonnets to-day, mamma," said Emily, "though it is so fine." "She wishes to see you in them," answered their mother; "she must not be disappointed."
Miss Ladd wisely and kindly wrote to Emily on the subject, and asked for a speedy reply. Later in the day, Alban was sent for to see Mrs. Ellmother. He found her anxiously waiting to hear what had passed, on the previous night, between Miss Ladd and himself. "Were you careful, sir, to say nothing about Miss Emily?" "I was especially careful; I never alluded to her in any way."
And here, beneath this spangled canopy, in this ancient shrine, whose every ornament was as a memory of her ancestors; stood Emily Delme, as fair as the fairest of her race, changeful and trembling, a faint smile on her lip, and a quivering tear in her eye.
I liked to have died with sea-sickness, Gertrude, coming out; and I dread going home so, that I don't know what to do." Gertrude wrote frequently to Emily, but, as Miss Graham was dependent upon Mrs.
When, much later in the evening, his character came on for discussion between herself and Mrs Thorne and Emily Dunstable, she had not a word to say in his favour. But still she had been pleased to meet him, because he was the man with whom Johnny's life was most specially concerned.
Fairchild showed to her children how much God loves people who are lowly and humble; and she knelt by the bedside and prayed that God would take all desire to be great out of her dear little girls' hearts. The All-Seeing God I must tell you of a sad temptation into which Emily fell about this time. It is a sad story, but you shall hear it. There was a room in Mrs.
They screamed so violently that John came running to see what was the matter; and, poor man! he was sadly frightened when he saw Emily lying on the floor covered with blood. He lifted her up and brought her into the house; he saw she was not dead, but he did not know how much she might be hurt.
I knew it before she told me; her strength is very little without mine, and," he added, "even if we do all we can, that little mother must leave us before many years. You know, Emily, how I have wanted all my life to be an artist. "What do you mean, Louis?
The arrival of Hubert and Emily saved the small boy from many a cuff and the donkey from a kick or two; and Jack stood amid the ruin he had created, as quiet and as docile a creature as the mind could imagine. 'Oh, you you wicked Jack! Who would have thought it of you? said Emily, throwing her arms round the animal's neck. 'And at your age, too!
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