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He was covered with muck and snow. "Judith's bull has got away from us kids and he's headed this way!" "What were you doing with him?" shrieked Grandma, "We was going to bring him up here and put him in the church like Scott paid us for. And he said "
At the Mannheims' he met Judith's aunts, cousins, and friends.
After what you have told me, I could not possibly cause you pain in this way, for we are good friends already." "Commandant," said Benassis after a moment's pause, "bring Judith's child here to me. It is doubtless God's will to submit me to this final trial, and I will endure it. I will offer up these sufferings to God, whose Son died upon the cross.
Stillness and starlight and John's voice rich and sweet as Peter never had heard it. "You're beautiful, Judith! A beautiful woman! Let me dress you as you ought to be dressed, give you the right kind of a horse, and the whole of the rodeo will be yours. I tell you, girl, all you've got to do is to ask me for what you want." "Do other folks call me beautiful, Dad?" Judith's voice was breathless.
But she was upheld by none of the traditional pride in a righteous action, nor by a raging single-mindedness like Judith's, who stalked along, her little fists clenched, frowning blackly to right and left on the other children, evidently far more angry with them than sympathetic for Cécile. Sylvia did not feel angry with any one.
Nothing could have occurred more likely to awaken all Judith's generous regrets, or to aid her in her purpose, by adding the stimulant of a disinterested desire to atone to her other impulses, and cloaking all under a guise so winning and natural, as greatly to lessen the unpleasant feature of a forwardness unbecoming the sex.
They had had no laughter then for Judith's prophecy of her literary career, and so now they had only instant sympathy with their little sister's enthusiasm. "Of course you shall go, Ju dear," said Elinor, warmly. "It's sweet of Mrs. Shelly to ask you, and you'll have a lovely time in that dear little old-fashioned house with her and Miss Jinny."
Hampton, his hair ruffled, Judith's table littered with market reports, and many sheets of paper covered with untidy figures, looked up at Lee's entrance. "Hello, Bud," he said, reaching for cigarette and match. "Got everything ready for to-morrow?" "Why didn't you tell me Miss Sanford had gone away?" was Lee's sharp rejoinder. Hampton flushed.
Judith's smiles were far from frequent, but the recipient of one did not forget it. In this way, almost from the first, several distinct lines of cleavage were established in the family party during the next fortnight.
After a moment he managed to return, steadily, "I'd ask you why?" The tensity of Judith's expression did not relax. "I've told you why. I cannot bear to think of killing love by marriage. And it always works so. Always. And yet, O Douglas, I love you, love you!"
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