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This effort at concealment was the beginning of the tremulous motion of head and hands which I have seen ever since in Miss Matty. The evening of the day on which we heard of Mr Holbrook's death, Miss Matilda was very silent and thoughtful; after prayers she called Martha back and then she stood uncertain what to say.
It was, indeed, a beautiful song, and Miss Holbrook said so with promptness and enthusiasm; yet still David frowned. "Yes, yes," he answered, "but don't you see? That was telling you about something inside of me that made all my hours sunshiny ones. Now, what you want is something inside of you to make yours sunshiny, too. Don't you see?" An odd look came into Miss Holbrook's eyes.
His room overflowed with flowers and fruit, and his bed quite groaned with the toys and books and games brought for his diversion, each one of which he hailed with delight, from Miss Holbrook's sumptuously bound "Waverley Novels" to little crippled Jimmy Clark's bag of marbles.
Step by step, God was leading Tip Lewis in the narrow way. No sooner was he seated in the bright, warm little room, and had listened to Mr. Holbrook's earnest prayer, that every Christian there might do something for Christ that night, than the struggle began: what ought he to do for Christ? People all around him were, one after another, offering prayer or saying a few words. Ought he to?
Holbrook's personal appearance; and, remembering this, he was fain to believe that Marian had been won by some charm more subtle than that of a handsome face. He went on eating his dinner in silence for some little time, meditating upon what the landlord had told him.
I should have supposed that your curiosity would have been aroused by the absence of any reply to your letters that you would have looked at the business in a more serious light than you appear to have done that you would have taken alarm, in short." "Why should I do so?" the lawyer demanded carelessly. "It is Mrs. Holbrook's business to look after her affairs. The property is safe enough.
"Things were different then " He stopped, and Mordaunt gave him a keen glance. Holbrook's hesitation was curious. "How are things different?" Mordaunt asked. "You bought shares that seldom fluctuate much. You risked losing a small margin; now you may lose the principal." "The loss would be mine. I have always paid." "That is so.
At Corning, none of the ministers would give the notice of our meeting, which so incensed some of the men that they went to the printing office, struck off handbills and had boys standing at the door of the churches as the people passed out. Who was responsible for the Sabbath breaking?... At Elmira, took tea at Mrs. Holbrook's with Rev. Thomas K. Beecher.
"Well, do you know where Teeny-bits is?" "Why, up at the school, I suppose; I haven't seen him," was the answer. It was evident that Mr. Holbrook's assistant had no information; Neil hung up the receiver and said to himself: "Well, if his father is coming that's a good sign. When Teeny-bits shows up, I'll give him a lecture that'll make his hair stand on end."
But he had much reason, after that, to thank God that he did not succeed. He had just got from under the gaze of the hall-lamp, and stood a minute in the darkness waiting for Kitty, when he felt Mr. Holbrook's hand on his arm, and heard his kind, quiet voice: "Edward, Mrs. Holbrook has some little business to transact' with Kitty to-night; shall I walk with you?"
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