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'Oh yes, you are right: we are a proud lot, he observed, as he rose to take leave. 'Well, Miss Garston, after Christmas is over, we shall hope to see you for an evening; but any afternoon you are free they will be glad to see you. Etta makes excellent tea. What a craze five-o'clock tea is with you women!
And the poor boy he was only twenty, Ursula put his head down on my shoulder and sobbed like a child. If only Giles could have seen him then! 'Do you know what passed between them? 'Yes; I heard a little from both of them. Some of Eric's bills had been opened accidentally by Giles. Etta had told Giles that they were his, and he had called Eric to account.
"So I have always thought; but I have had a terrible disappointment in her. No one would suppose it, but I have recently heard that she is a thief, and that to a large amount. The child, innocent as she looks, has actually stolen fifty dollars from our mill." "That is absolutely impossible! I will not believe it. Who told you so, Etta?" "One of the class. Bertie Sanderson.
Whatever went on in their secret bosoms, they smiled and joked and were unfailingly courteous. He made another discovery within a few minutes. Stubby maneuvered himself close to Etta Robbin-Steele. Stubby was not quite so adept at repression as most of his class. He was a little more naïve, more prone to act upon his natural, instinctive impulses. MacRae was aware of that.
Etta, her heart bursting, her throat choking, glanced at Susan to see whether she too was observing. But Susan's eyes were on the tenement they had just left. "What are you looking at so queer?" asked Etta. "I was thinking that we'll not come back here." Etta started. "Not come back home!" Susan gave a strange short laugh. "Home!. . . No, we'll not come back home.
Not that it lacked womanliness; "womanly" is the word that most exactly describes it and always will exactly describe such expressions and the thoughts behind so long as men compel women to be just women, under penalty of refusing them support if they are not so. Redmond came in, and Etta left him alone with Susan. "Well, has Etta told you?" he asked. "Yes," replied the girl.
The last and the strongest measure in the diplomat's scale is the People. The People, madame, will take no denial. It is a game I have played before a dangerous game, but I am not afraid." "You need not trouble to be theatrical with me," put in Etta scornfully. She was sitting with a patch of color in either cheek.
I've got a daughter about your age. Go home, my dear, and stay a good girl. I know it's hard sometimes; but never give up your purity never!" And he lifted his square-topped hard hat and turned away. Suddenly Etta felt again the fury of the winter night and icy wind. As that wind flapped her thin skirt and tortured her flesh, she cried, "Wait please. I was just just fooling."
Yes, here it is: 'Your last letter has been a great comfort to me, my dear Etta: it was more than a poor fellow had a right to expect. I do believe that this long absence has served my purpose, and the scratch I got at Singapore.
And so, just at the very last moment, I prayed for bravery enough to tell Miss Etta, and she went with me to Mr. Morven, and he told me I was just the one to come, if I really loved the Lord Jesus ever so little and wanted to do his will.
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