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Before Dawson lay a large, round bundle. A smaller one lay at the feet of one of the other men. "Now, then," spoke Dawson, "ready and quick is the word. I've divided it up fair, and you'll find your share in that bundle. You three had better get it and yourselves to some safe place." "Yes," spoke one of the men, "the revenuers will surely be here soon."
For it is only fair to state, as a just tribute to the enterprise and energy of that young and thriving settlement, that there was not probably a single citizen who did not feel himself better able to control the deceased humorist's property.
But nothing hinders that, in working for a prize as in working for your bread, you may, at the same time, be working from sense of duty and love of the subject, and though co-operation may be our final state, competition is our present. Here the competition is at least fair.
One was my fair unknown, the other a lady whom I have occasionally seen, and whom I take to be Wilding's cousin, though this is all guess-work. Whether she is or not, she is evidently a very unpleasant sort of body, for, whatever she said, the other was plainly exceedingly vexed and mortified. She covered her face with her hands. At one time she made a movement as if to leave.
'Oh, I must go to Catherine! she said, hurrying away, her pretty withered cheeks wet with tears. Then the girls threw themselves on Elsmere. The talk was all animation and excitement for the moment, not a tragic touch in it. It was as well perhaps that Catherine was not there to hear! 'I give you fair warning, said Rose, as she bade him good-night, 'that I don't know how to behave to a brother.
She was a slim, rather small lady, and her fair face, at first sight, suggested an agreeable delicacy. To herself she acknowledged with pleasure that she was "spirituelle." To the observer, after a glance at her attractive upper face, the thick jaw and neck came as a surprise: so did the hands and feet.
At any rate, and however her power came about, at that moment, in Fair View house, a great actress was speaking. "'Fresh blooming Hope, gay daughter of the skies, And Faith'" The speaker lost a word, hesitated, became confused. Finally silence; then the Audrey of a while before, standing with heaving bosom, shy as a fawn, fearful that she had not pleased him, after all.
He found nothing but poverty. He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, strumming his Scandinavian melodies, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in ecstasy or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg.
Seth no longer sat in the chair near his pillow, but stood a little apart; and surely he would have been no lover if the feeble blood had not leaped in his veins at the sight of the face bending over him the innocent, fair young face which had so haunted his pained and troubled dreams. "Cathie!" he cried out aloud.
I have not seen the girl, but know this through others who were angry at his good-fortune." "Could we reach there, think you, unobserved?" She rose, and gazed anxiously across the stream, her face showing clear and fair in the faint light of those distant fires, while I caught the glimmer of a pearl rosary about her white throat and marked a silver crucifix resting against her breast.
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