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It was of the Master only that she appeared to think. When he spoke, it was to her as though God really lived on earth; her eyes lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was instantly forgot. At that time her life was a dream into whose charmed precincts a bat had flown. These things, gradually, Judas must have understood.
Well, I should still have enough. I don't want anything but food, lodging, clothes, and now and then a railway fare. I haven't any tastes. I don't collect anything or play games. Oh, my profession! I forgot I shall have a profession. Well, that will leave me with more to spare than ever."
And mamma? why, she can sit whole hours with her hands folded, if she likes, and go to sleep whenever she feels tired; for she has earned plenty of money for herself, and little Floy, too. Floy is glad of this, because mamma smiles now, and looks happier and because all her old friends, who forgot all about her when she was poor, are so delighted now whenever they meet her.
"I ought to have brushed it yesterday, but I didn't, and to-day I forgot it." But she saw and felt that no one believed her, and Betty, the only one who could have borne out her words, was not there. "You can all go back to your classes all but Katherine Trenire," said Miss Richards, ignoring her speech; and the girls, with looks of sympathy or alarm, filed out, leaving Kitty alone.
"Niclas," she whispered, "I must and will know who these strangers are. Go and demand their passports." The obedient Niclas stepped out and cried in a thundering voice to the postilion, who was just about to start, to wait. Stepping to the stage, he opened the door. "Your passports, gentlemen," he said, roughly. "You forgot to show me your passports."
With quick thumps of his fist he stamped the letters, then glanced at the Turk. He was gay, mature, business-like, ready for anything. "I'll pull out in half an hour now," he chuckled. "Gosh!" sighed the Turk. "I feel as if I was responsible for everything. Oh, say, here's a letter I forgot to give you. Came this afternoon." The letter was from Gertie.
"What do you mean by firing like that? Don't you know enough to ask for the counter-sign before shooting?" "Sure, I forgot about it, captain, entirely. But, then, ye see, I never can hit anything; so it's little difference it makes." The shot had roused the camp, and there was now wild commotion, everybody thinking the Canadians were upon them. A strange sight met the eye of Yates and Renmark.
It is not very difficult to forget rain and mud by the side of a cheerful fire, and in a bright room. They were furnished with slippers and such dry garments as the house or their own bundles afforded, and ensconcing themselves, as Mr Codlin had already done, in the warm chimney-corner, soon forgot their late troubles or only remembered them as enhancing the delights of the present time.
The noble forgot his acting under the influence of surprise, and his voice expressed as much of admiration as command when he said "This, then, is the Skimmer of the Seas!" "Men call me thus: if a life passed on oceans gives a claim to the title, it has been fairly earned." "Your character I may say that some portions of your history, are not unknown to me.
In all her after life Rachel never forgot these readings at intermission, which were continued not only until Christian reached the Celestial city, but until Christiana and the children completed their wonderful journey to the same place. Her gratitude to her young teacher would certainly have become love had she been a few years older.
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