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But Letty only laid her head against Ailsa's breast, and sobbed anew, uncomforted. "Won't you tell me what is wrong?" urged Ailsa, mystified. "Yes . . . I am . . . Don't pay attention to what I say, Mrs. Paige. You you like me, don't you?" "I love you, dear," "Please do. I am very unhappy." "You are only tired out. Listen; don't the wards look pretty with all the laurel and evergreens and ribbons!
For the committee on decorations was to come with evergreens to begin to deck the Tombs parsonage the moment the aged pair should get out of sight of it. Three persons were prompt to the moment at the meeting of stockholders: Garnet, Gamble, and Jonas Crickwater, the new clerk of Swanee Hotel and a subscriber for one share face value one hundred dollars, cash payment ten.
To hear Miss Wirt herself, you would fancy that her Papa was a Rothschild, and that the markets of Europe were convulsed when he went into the GAZETTE. 'Be hanged to your aristocrats! Ponto said, in some conversation we had regarding the family at Carabas, between whom and the Evergreens there was a feud.
Do they get anything down there in the awfu' heat?" Wayland laughed. "I don't know," he said. "Care isn't light as dandelion fluff! I'll bet on that." The roar of waters below the moraine softened and quieted. There was a chorus of little waves lipping and whispering among the reeds. A whole aeon of resinous sunbeams breathed their essence through the dark from the spicy evergreens.
The sunlight had that orange glow that comes only on autumn evenings, the long, slant rays striking across the yellow fields and lighting up the dark evergreens which dotted the landscape with a tawny illumination, like dull flames. The locusts hummed drowsily, as if they were almost asleep, and the frogs in the ponds sent out an occasional muffled croak.
Some single trees, wholly bright scarlet, seen against others of their kind still freshly green, or against evergreens, are more memorable than whole groves will be by-and-by. How beautiful, when a whole tree is like one great scarlet fruit full of ripe juices, every leaf, from lowest limb to topmost spire, all aglow, especially if you look toward the sun!
If he comes into this immediate swarming pastoral region, where the people, with ancestral love of privacy, and not from any kindly thought of him, plant evergreens around their country homes, he must live under the very guns and amid the pitfalls of the enemy.
By the time the party gained the north shore their hands and faces were badly scratched. The little basin of the Sly Hole lay below. Looking down, they could make out a dark object at the water's edge. "There's their boat!" whispered Jim. "They're still on the island." Spang! Another report from the pasture beyond the evergreens echoed emphatic confirmation to his statement.
Balconies and housetops were thronged, and all along the line of route were flags and decorations of flowers and evergreens, streamers with inscriptions of welcome, and arches adorned with large pictures representing incidents of bush life. The bells, too, rang out merry peals, and the day was observed as a general holiday at Adelaide.
Has she not promised many things. Shall she answer or not, or This time her hesitation avails her nothing; a step can be heard dangerously close, and then a figure comes up to her very back, and peers through the thick hedge of evergreens, and finally Stephen makes his way through them and stands before her. He is flushed and half angry.
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