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Her husband and her father were with her which denoted some advance and the three were crouched on the ground, a picture of misery. The twins were lying in a basket and had not been touched. Mr. Adamson helped "Ma" to attend to them, and she felt as proud of him as of a son when she saw him sitting down beside the weeping mother and gently trying to comfort her.
He jumped out of the buckboard and helped her down, performing a like service for Aunt Martha. Uncle Jepson got out himself. Then, as Ruth hesitated an instant, Masten bent over her. "You must be tired, dear. Go in and explore the house. Get some refreshment and take a rest. I'll attend to the baggage and the horses."
'Which is exactly what Peter, Mrs Mallow gaily returned 'why in the world were you so perverse, Peter? wouldn't, when he told him, hear of. Peter, when this lady looked at him with accusatory affection a grace on her part not infrequent could never find a word; but the Master, who was always all amenity and tact, helped him out now as he had often helped him before.
"You say that America has not helped you very much? Let us consider the ways in which America could have helped. Military aid? Well, of course that is out of the question so long as we remain neutral, as we agreed just now we certainly ought to remain. Still, there are more than twenty-five thousand American citizens serving in the Allied Armies to-day. Did you realize that?"
It was useless to cry over what could not be helped, and since she had made the great mistake of her life she must keep her word or lose her good name for ever, according to the ideas in which she had been brought up. But it would be very hard to meet San Miniato now, within the next quarter of an hour, as she inevitably must.
'Laughed at him with her, to be sure. 'Laughed at him! She told you, and you helped her to laugh at love! Have you no perceptions? Why did she tell you? 'Because she thought him such a fool, I suppose. 'You never will know a woman, said the Countess, with contempt. Much of his worldly sister at a time was more than Evan could bear.
This was a sad disappointment, as he would have helped us so much, and mother's constant anxiety that my health should not suffer by my close confinement was a little trying at times. I was quite well, but it was no wonder that my fresh color faded a little, and that I grew a little quiet and subdued.
They were a wonderful lot and they helped prove the fact that either the American kind of university education, or the American inheritance of mental and moral qualities, or the two combined, can justly be a source of American self-congratulation. They were patient and long-suffering under difficulties and provocation.
Whenever he rested, he spent the interval calling loudly for his father, while Collie helped him by barking, but though he listened till his ears were strained, only the soft lap, lap, of the waves against the canoe answered. As night came on the thick pall grew heavier and blacker, and at last he could not see even the length of the canoe.
Yes, I have done it! It could not be helped. I would give myself up at once, but, Anne, there is my wife. They tell me any shock would kill her as she is now. I should be double murderer. Will you keep the secret, Anne, always my friend? And 'twas for you." "Indeed, indeed, I will not betray you. I go away in two hours," said Anne; and he caught her hand.
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