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I tell you this candidly; it is a harsh picture, but I fear too true a one. With me I trust you will be happy, but you will run a great risk if you were to change and go into another family." "I have heard as much before, my dear madame," replied I; "but your considerate kindness has made me forget it. I can only say that it will be a melancholy day when I am forced to quit your roof."
"Father likes us to be happy," said Cissy simply. "And `your Father knoweth," softly replied Elizabeth, "`that ye have need of all these things." "Oh, then, He'll send in Ursula, or somebody," responded Cissy, in a contented tone. "It'll be all right if I ask Him to see to it."
I must go away and do my work alone. I must help my boys first, because, even for you, I may not break my word to Minna. Can you forgif that, and be happy while we hope and wait?" "Yes, I know I can, for we love one another, and that makes all the rest easy to bear. I have my duty, also, and my work.
"Whatever it may be, let us stick together and go to America and be happy. It would be a dark world without you. May I see you to-morrow?" "At the same hour and place," she answered. They talked of the home they would have in Philadelphia and planned its garden, Jack having told of the site he had bought with great trees and a river view.
'How strange all this is, she said one day; 'I feel as if I were living on an island. It's quite like playing at "Robinson Crusoe", only there's no sea. We don't seem to be able to get out all the same. It's a happy, peaceful life, too. Why can't we keep on for ever like this, and shut out the wicked, sorrowful world altogether?
Always on his return he was met by Nellie some distance down the winding trail, and, as soon as she was in sight, he held up the plump letter for which she yearned, and over which she was made happy beyond expression, and he never failed to carry back with him the reply of the child, who knew how much it cheered the brave soldier in the distant East and South fighting the battles of his country.
"Endymion must take me in to dinner," she hurriedly exclaimed as she entered, and then grasped her son's arm. It seemed a happy and even a merry dinner, and yet there was something about it forced and constrained. Mrs.
My vagrant fancy shewed me her naked form, all seemed ravishing, and yet I thought that though she might inspire a passing fancy she could not arouse a durable affection. She might minister to a man's pleasures, she could not make him happy.
Sometimes I went with Turkey to his mother's of an evening, to which my father had no objection, and somehow or other Elsie was sure to be there, and we spent a very happy hour or two together.
But I'll tell you, we'll buy some of those cakes to take home, and you may have them to-morrow." "And Kitty and King, too," said Midge. "And let's take them some buttercups." So the candy and cakes were bought and carried home by two tired but very happy people, and Marjorie fully appreciated the lovely day her father had given her, because of Gladys's going away.
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