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And I tell the story as a warning; for he represents no small section of his class. My plants wanted not less but a great deal more water on that villainous concrete floor. Despairing of horticulture indoors as out, I sometimes thought of orchids. I had seen much of them in their native homes, both East and West enough to understand that their growth is governed by strict law.
Then silently from the house Philoetius stole forth and straightway barred the gates of the fenced court. Beneath the portico there lay a curved ship's cable, made of biblus plant. With this he lashed the gates, then passed indoors himself, and went and took the seat from which he first arose, eyeing Ulysses.
After an unprecedented success one day she came indoors, went upstairs, and leant upon her bed face downwards quite forgetting the possible creasing and damage. "Good Heaven," she whispered, "can it be? Here am I setting up as the town beauty!" When she had thought it over, her usual fear of exaggerating appearances engendered a deep sadness. "There is something wrong in all this," she mused.
What should he tell those people sitting indoors about what he had been doing outside? "He's sure to have been kept at school, ma'am," whispered the housemaid when she handed the meat. "I'll find it out from the other boys to-morrow, and tell you about it, ma'am." "Oh, you!" The boy jumped up; although she had whispered it in a low voice, he had heard it all the same.
He saw his own future as it must now be; weighted with this burden, this secret; if indeed it were still to be a secret; if it were not rather the wiser and the manlier plan to have done with secrecy. Elizabeth rose with a little shiver. The wind had begun to blow cold from the northwest. "How soon can we run down? I hope Mr. Arthur will have sent Philip indoors."
His uncle, at breakfast, had told him briefly that he did not wish him to go out before dinner, as someone might want to see him; and Charlie, supposing that a messenger might be coming down from the India House, waited indoors; and an hour later he was astonished, when the door of the room opened and his mother and sisters entered.
"What can a poor man like you offer me, indeed? I am going indoors. I have nothing more to say. Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this?" Venn spoke not another word. With his hands behind him he turned away, that she might not see the hopeless disappointment in his face.
On going away, I remembered to have closed it; on trying it now, I found it open. I waited outside, never losing sight of the house till daylight. Then I ventured indoors listened, and heard nothing looked into the kitchen, scullery, parlor, and found nothing went up at last into the bedroom. It was empty. A picklock lay on the floor, which told me how she had gained entrance in the night.
But what about the uncle? How have you got on with him? I will answer for the niece. 'I have not been so fortunate with him, he replied. "Whereupon I took his arm and we went indoors." "Dinner made me lose my head altogether. I sat beside her, and my hand continually met hers under the tablecloth, my foot touched hers and our glances met.
Do let's have some at once!" They went indoors together with something of the air of conspirators, and in the close companionship of her hero Olga managed to forget that she had so recently been driven to another man for protection.
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