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Scott was standing before the fire, his eyes fixed upon its red depths. His shoulders were still bent, as though they bore a burden well-nigh overwhelming. An odd little spasm went over his face at her words. "Then God help my Dinah!" he said almost under his breath. In the silence that followed the words, Isabel rose impulsively, came to him, and slipped her hand through his arm.
"I will," promised Virginia. Then impulsively she caught one of Grace's hands in hers. "You're the dearest girl," she said, "and I'll try to be worthy of your friendship. Please tell the girls I'm sorry. I'll tell them myself to-night." With that she fairly ran from the room, and going to her own shed tears of real contrition.
Later in the morning Joe happened to ask her out to lunch. 'I'm so sorry, said Mary; 'I've just promised Eddy. He wants me to meet him at Stephano's, but She hesitated. 'Why shouldn't we all lunch together? she went on, impulsively. She hurried on. This was her opening, but she felt nervous.
They watched for a blazed tree on either bank, which would show the centre-stake of the last claim located. Joy, impulsively eager, was the first to find it. She darted ahead of Smoke, crying: "Somebody's been here! See the snow! Look for the blaze! There it is! See that spruce!" She sank suddenly to her waist in the snow. "Now I've done it," she said woefully. Then she cried: "Don't come near me!
But you can borrow two or three hundred dollars from your brother, and by the time that's gone you ought to be earning something. You could join a class; the house isn't far from those studios." Clayton impulsively seized her arms and looked into her face. She was startled and almost frightened. "I believe," he began, but the words faded away. "No, don't say it.
I am sorry, for the whole happiness of a man, and perhaps that of a woman also, depends upon the discovery as to who took the letter from out the Bible where I had hidden it on that unfortunate morning." And, making her another low bow, I was about to take my departure, when she grasped me impulsively by the arm. "What man?" she whispered; and in a lower tone still, "What woman?"
Paul Burton remained silent, half-piqued, and she, divining his thought, smiled quietly to herself at his petulance, but finally she spoke slowly and gravely: "You are an artist and until tonight you didn't know of my existence. Anything I might say would mean little to you." "Even," he impulsively demanded, "if it came from the last face that faded?"
The girl instantly realized what she had said, and springing up she threw her arms impulsively about her father's neck. "Dear old daddy!" she said. "There isn't another man in the world like you! I love you dearly, dearly!" The soft lips touched his cheek again and again. But for the first time in her life that Florence could remember, her father did not respond. Instead, he gently freed himself.
Acting impulsively, Patty swung herself through the low window, and had descended the picturesque outside stairway that led from the upper veranda to the lower one before she remembered Daisy's prohibition. "Oh, I think I won't go down to the beach," she said, suddenly pausing at the foot of the stairs. "I must go right back."
In a few minutes more Mrs. Ruthven appeared, her face full of sorrow. As she approached Harry Powell, the tears stood in her eyes. "My dear aunt, how glad I am to see you, after this long separation!" cried the young man impulsively. "Oh, Harry! Harry! How can you come here in that uniform?" she returned. "Let us speak of that later, Aunt Alice.
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