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Eva laughed, but Alice shrugged her shoulders, and said tranquilly, "I don't mind. She wouldn't expect much wisdom from school-girls." This was cold comfort to Carrie, who was painfully conscious of having been a particularly silly school-girl just then.
'And the funny part of it is that Eva has really been the person to bring it about, and I don't like saying so she managed to twist what I said, and what you said, so as to make us each believe that the one was quite willing for the move and was only kept back by the other, observed Amy, who had resented this management when she found it out.
"I wish I was air, that I could beat my wings, could chase the clouds, and try to fly over the mountain summits: that would be life." The first evening after Otto's return to Copenhagen he spent with Sophie, and the conversation turned upon his little journey. "The pretty Eva has vanished!" said he. "You had rejoiced in the prospect of this meeting, had you not?" asked Sophie.
She went to the door and opened it, and at the same moment the front door was flung widely open and a man stepped into the hall, to be greeted instantly by a torrent of wild barking from the now delighted Borzoi. "Steady, old girl! I say, Olga, don't take me for a wolf and tear me to pieces!" He laughingly pushed the great dog down and hastened towards his wife. "Hallo, Eva! Have I startled you?
Eva came running down-stairs and in a moment they took up the trail of the Balcom car. It seemed as if they traveled for miles, and Locke was commencing to think that it was merely a wild-goose chase, when Balcom's car came to a halt in one of the lower quarters of the city, before a house that was apparently tenantless.
"Nothing but the crickets outside and the splash of the water over the dam," he replied. "No, it's something in the house up stairs. Hear it now; like the creaking of a board." Roy did hear it this time plainly. "It's Rex or Eva," he said reassuringly. "No, it isn't. See, it's nearly midnight. They were asleep long ago. Oh, Roy, that man may stop on the way down and murder them both."
That being safely accomplished, there was something grimly humorous in the trend taken by affairs in the old house on Calumet. For Eva married. Of all people, Eva! Married well, too, though he was a great deal older than she.
Eva glanced up at them reproachfully as they passed. Were they not going to say a word, not a single word, to Cordelia? Hadn't they any pity for her; hadn't they any shame for what they had done? Goaded by these thoughts, she burst out passionately, "Oh, girls, I should think " and then broke down completely, and bowed her head against Cordelia's, unable to say another word.
He was not created for the monastery. If Heaven had vouchsafed him a miracle, it was done to preserve his life that as Eva desired he might fight to the last drop of his blood for the Church, his holy faith, and the beloved Emperor. But if he remained in the world, Eva would do the same; they belonged to each other inseparably.
Eva had purposely left her motor turning over, and therefore it was barely an instant after they were in the street before they were streaking out of that quarter of the town. Zita was now overwhelmed by her feelings, but it was Eva herself who spoke first. "Forgive me, Zita," begged Eva, in the rush of her emotions forgetting all that Zita had done. "But for you, both of us would now be dead."
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