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But let me just once see this clearly wholly; then I can go on dreaming till the thing falls. I've got to tell Jane Withersteen. I've dangerous trips to take. I've work here to make comfort for this girl. She's mine. I'll fight to keep her safe from that old life. I've already seen her forget it. I love her.
"'I do try, Agnes; but tell me, have I not been unwell, very unwell? "'Your feelings, dear Jane, overcame you yesterday, as was natural they should but now that you are calm, of course you will not yield to despondency or melancholy. Your dejection, though at present deep, will soon pass away, and ere many days you will be as cheerful as ever. "'I hope so; but Charles is gone, is he not?
"How did Genesis know Willie wanted forty dollars, and if Willie's pawned something how did Genesis know THAT? Did Willie tell Gen " "Oh no, mamma, Willie didn't want forty dollars only fourteen!" "But he couldn't get even the cheapest readymade dress-suit for fourteen dollars." "Mamma, you're gettin' it all mixed up!" Jane cried. "Listen, mamma!
Julius uncrossed his legs brusquely and continued: "Just shows what an almighty fool a man can make of himself! One look at the girl in the flesh, and I was cured!" Feeling more tongue-tied than ever, Tommy ejaculated "Oh!" again. "No disparagement to Jane, mind you," continued the other. "She's a real nice girl, and some fellow will fall in love with her right away."
But you'll go back and stay in your room, won't you?" He patted her arm, which Jane particularly hated generally. But Jane had altered considerably since morning. "Then you cannot go to the telephone?" "Not to-night." "And Higgins?" "Higgins has gone," he said. "He slipped off an hour ago. We'll have to manage to-night somehow. Now will you be a good child?" "I'll go back," she promised meekly.
Immediately, the astute Elizabeth precipitated matters by asking her brother sharply if his projected visit to Port Agnew predicated also a visit to the Sawdust Pile. "Why, yes, Elizabeth," he answered calmly. The Laird scowled at her, but she ignored the scowl; so old Hector flashed a warning glance to Jane and her mother a glance that said quite plainly: "Let there be no upbraiding of my son."
"Mason! the West Indies!" he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; "Mason! the West Indies!" he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing. "Do you feel ill, sir?" I inquired. "Jane, I've got a blow; I've got a blow, Jane!" He staggered.
Everything presses in." She opened her eyes, bright and desperate. "What am I doing here, Mr. Morena?" He had put down his cup quietly, for he was really half-afraid of her. "Why did you come, Jane?" "Because I was afraid of some one. I was running away, Mr. Morena. There's some one that mustn't ever find me now, and to run away from him that was the business of my life.
Jane told her husband that they should not want theirs the same night, of course, as Hattie's, and that if she had hers right away the next night, she could eat up any of the cakes or ice cream that was left from Hattie's party, and thus save buying so much new for herself.
You must admit, Jane, that there are many gray-eyed girls in the country; I don't know just how many, thank Heaven, but there are a lot of them. And most of them seem not only to have read that interview, but to have made a personal application of my remarks. Have you any idea what that means to me?" "Then you think that they are all in " "No, no!
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