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It was not granted, for even during the high mass for the soul of his dearest friend, which also detained the Ortliebs in church, he sought Eva's glance only too often, but always in vain. Once only, when the Dona nobis pacem pealed forth again, this time for the prince, his eyes met those of the woman he loved.
And when in the next instant she cried breathlessly, "We I didn't mean to crowd you out; it it wasn't fair; and and you'll come back and take my place, Cordelia, won't you?" they, even Alice and Janey, forgot to be angry; forgot everything at the moment in their astonishment and an involuntary admiration for Eva's courage in daring to do as she did against them all!
Then he left the place, brushing his coat with his handkerchief as he did so. "Brent Rock," he said to his chauffeur, curtly, as he stepped into his car. Eva and Locke were seated at a long table in the library of Eva's home. Before them were many ledgers of International Patents, Incorporated.
"Oh Jack, I pray for you; I pray for you," said his mother. Jack, I fancy, thought more of Eva's silence than of his mother's prayer. Jack went back to his place, and hit the first ball with such energy that he drove it into the other stumps and smashed them to pieces.
I thought the thing absurd, and started to write the note, going a step farther than I had ever threatened Balcom." Quentin, Doctor Q, and Zita exchanged glances as Eva's father resumed his narrative. "Then I felt a choking sensation at my throat. I remember the effrontery of Flint's laughing at me, in a maudlin sort of way, and then a blank.
Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. Her daughter Metz was also in the Ortlieb's service as assistant to the chief cook.
Any one who got the meaning of the Loop knows the significance of a move to a north-shore suburb, and a house. Eva's daughter, Ethel, was growing up, and her mother had an eye on society. That did away with Jo's Thursday dinner. Then Stell's husband bought a car. They went out into the country every Sunday. Stell said it was getting so that maids objected to Sunday dinners, anyway.
Is she not down? asked Amy, who was generally the last, and now sat down to take a hurried breakfast. 'No, she has not appeared yet. You might run and see if she has overslept herself, Vava, suggested Stella. 'I wish you'd go, Stella, replied Vava. Stella did not look at all pleased at Vava's disobligingness; but she was too dignified to argue, and getting up she went herself to Eva's room.
When Andrew entered Fanny flew to him. "O Andrew O Andrew!" she cried. "Eva's come out! She's well! she's cured! She's as well as anybody! She is! She says so, and I know she is! Only look at her!" "Mamma, mamma!" gasped Amabel, in a strange, little, pent voice, which did not sound like a child's. There was something fairly inhuman about it.
She made endless trips with her tin-pail from the sixth floor to the yard and back again, she begged a piece of soap from the friendly "janitor lady" and set valiantly to work. And Eva's prophecy was fulfilled. The dress looked "awful diff'rent" when it had dried to half its already scant proportions.