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We're moving away, and she can't go yet." The old lady expressed her willingness, and Jennie was soon temporarily installed. "Don't worry now," said Bass, who felt rather sorry for her. "This'll blow over. Ma said I should tell you not to worry. Come up to-morrow when he's gone."
What do you think?" The laugh at Jennie Stone's sally really cleared the room, for the warning bell for supper sounded almost immediately. Heavy and Nettie, and all who did not belong in the quartette room, departed.
The waves whispered secrets to each other as they waited for the moon to rise. Dorothea, rapturously using the atmosphere as a background for Lady Ursula, became suddenly aware that the singing of "Juanita" in six different keys had ceased, and that Jennie, having been discovered to be the possessor of a voice, was singing alone.
She left over going to the aid of Lisbeth, from whom she took away the pillows and for whom she did not provide any more toothsome dishes; she did not go to her aid howsoever frantic the beatings on the wall or fierce the outcry. Never has a sentry kept a closer look-out than Olwen for Jennie.
No wonder he became a worshiper of so pure an image, rather than pay homage to a distorted object. Jennie meanwhile, was wholly unconscious of the interest she excited. So completely had her mind been occupied in contributing to her grandfather's comfort, that she sought no other affection, and so long as her friends looked kindly upon her, she was too happy to question their feeling toward her.
It seems sometimes as if we were under a curse. We have so much bad luck." When Jennie came her mother turned to her instinctively; here was her one stay. "What's the matter, ma?" asked Jennie as she opened the door and observed her mother's face. "What have you been crying about?" Mrs. Gerhardt looked at her, and then turned half away. "Pa's had his hands burned," put in Bass solemnly.
As it was, he was able to get ahead of the eavesdropper, and obtain a view of his face. And Jack was not mistaken in his surmise. It was one of the two men who had annoyed Jennie in the post office. The fellow seemed startled on confronting our hero. "So you're here now, eh?" asked Jack. "Well, is that any of your business?" was the challenge. "Isn't this a free country?"
She could not quite associate the sad, abstracted man up the road with "Annabel Lee." What a puzzle it all was! She went downstairs presently, and was sitting on the area steps watching Cousin Jennie iron, when the tall figure in her shabby black hat and veil, which she invariably wore, came up the outer steps. Hanny ran to open the gate. Mrs. Clemm was always quietly dignified.
Even Nancy in the kitchen had been heard to say that, "if the scented dandy didn't kape out ov her kitchen wid his imperdent speeches, she would give him wan blow wid her fist that would spoil his beauty for him," and threatened to "give warnin'" if the mistress did not keep him to his own quarters. Mrs. Sherwood was more than satisfied to leave all unpleasant things for Aunt Jennie to settle.
"You're joking! ... You're teasing me on purpose, Jennie!" muttered Gladishev, wrathful, frightened, and out of his wits. "Joking? ...Come here!" She abruptly compelled him to get up on his feet, lit a match and said: "Now look closely at what I'm going to show you..." She opened her mouth wide and placed the light so that it would illumine her larynx. Kolya looked and staggered back.
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