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Eva lowered her eyes in embarrassment, and exclaimed in a modest, beseeching tone: "But, uncle, do not you, too, feel that it would be cruel and unjust to make this honest fellow a cripple in return for his faithful services?"
I began to busy myself amongst some manuscripts to give Julian time to compose himself. And so an hour passed. At a quarter past four I got up to go out. Julian lay recumbent. It seemed terrible to leave him brooding alone over his misery. A closer inspection, however, showed me he was asleep. Meanwhile, Eva Eversleigh and I became firm friends.
Miss Sommerton drew back in alarm; but Trenton merely put his hands in his pockets, and said "Well, Eva, I came back because you called me." "It was a case of coercion," she said. "You English are too fond of coercion. We Americans are against it." "Oh, I am a Home Ruler, if you are," replied the artist.
Try as you never tried before to find the antidote for this strange combination of poisons. Telephone me when you have it." Locke seized his hat, and Hadwell redoubled his efforts to fathom the toxic secret. At Brent Rock, in the mean time, everything was in confusion, Eva was almost distracted, and, to add to her discomfort, Paul took occasion to call.
"She has certainly shown her true colors this time." "I never heard of anything more unjust than the way she accused us, when we knew nothing about her old plan," said Marian Barber. "It was abominable," said Eva Allen. The other girls expressed their disapproval in equally frank terms. "I suppose it did look as though I told you girls," said Mabel Allison, who had joined them at the gate.
"I have seen Eva Poindexter again, and heaven and hell have contended for me ever since. Eva! Eva! the girl I thought of only as our prey. The girl I have given to my brother. She is too lovely for him: she is too lovely for any man unless it be one who has never before thrilled to any woman's voice, or seen a face that could move his passions or awaken his affection. Is it love I feel?
He already saw Sister Death upon the threshold, and he wished to depart in peace and reap the reward for so much conflict, pain, and sacrifice. The Lord Himself had broken his weapons. The Minorite Egidius, his friend and companion in years, must carry on with Eva, Father Ignatius, the most eloquent member of the order in Nuremberg, with Heinz Schorlin, the work which he, Benedictus, had begun.
But when little Walpurga, half asleep, raised her tiny hand and lovingly stroked the wounded shoulder of her adopted mother, the matron, as usual when anything pleasant moved her heart, longed to have her husband at her side. How easily, since he was so near, she could afford him a sight of this touching picture! It should prove that she had been right to let Eva remain here.
"You won't have to. Jim will get work in a week or two, and you'll get married. Don't act so. I declare, I'm ashamed of you, Eva Loud. I thought you had more sense, to give up discouraged at no more than this. I don't see why you jump way ahead into trouble before you get to it." "I've got to it, and I can feel the steam of it in my face," Eva said, with unconscious imagery.
She kissed her brow and eyes tenderly as she spoke, expecting Eva, as she had often done when anything troubled her young soul, to return the caress impulsively, and accept with grateful impetuosity the invitation to the shelter which she offered; but the vile assault of the coarse woman who brought to her knowledge what people were thinking and saying about her produced upon the strange child, who had already given her many a surprise, an effect precisely opposite to her expectations.
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