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But at the portal of that Paradise stood an angel with a flaming sword, saying: "Back, your name is Robert Barthelemy." "I have often thought," said the girl trembling, "that some day when you return and ask, 'Where is Julietta?
"We ought to be wearing Carnegie medals, oughtn't we, girls?" said Julietta Hyde, blinking comically. "We can throttle anything from a black-hand agent to a ghost." "No, you ought to be wearing honor pins, for things well done," Miss Ladd corrected. "We'll leave the Carnegie medals for those who haven't any Camp Fire scheme of honors.
And something in her young breast wanted to cry after that boat, "Take me back take me back to my home," but something else in her forbade and would have died of shame before it uttered such weakness. For poor Julietta, for dear anxious Mamma, she knew herself the only hope. So steadily she waved her handkerchief long after she had lost the responding flutter from the boat.
"Polly Syllable, of course," Julietta answered, and the burst of laughter that followed would have been enough to silence the most ambitious joker, but this girl fun-maker was not in the least ambitious, so she laughed appreciatively with the others.
Perhaps he might have passed into the eternal slumber, had not sad dreams come and forced him to witness the horrible bloody scenes enacted when the Satanic band burst into the quiet, lonely cottage, where the three girls and their grandmother knelt in prayer; he saw the rabble rush in through door and windows, seizing their victims by the hair, the thin, gray locks of the poor old grandmother, the luxuriant raven ones, which he had so often kissed, of his worshipped Julietta.
"Three of them!" a masculine voice uttered explosively, and Maria knew that Papa was speaking of his three daughters, Lucia, Julietta and Maria Angelina and she knew, too, that Papa had just come from the last interview with the Tostis' lawyers. The Tostis had been stiff in their demands and Papa had been more complaisant than he should have been. Altogether that marriage was costing him dear.
He had been figuring now with Mamma for a pencil went clattering to the floor. "And something especial," he proclaimed bitterly, "will have to be done for Julietta!" At that the eavesdropper could smile, a faint little smile of shy pride and self-reliance. Nothing especial would have to be done for her!
Economy, S.R.P., Marion, Longinus, Julietta, Herodotus, D.O.V.E., and Mrs. Demonstration; besides many others of less note; together with at least a dozen female Hajjis, whose claims to appear in such society were pretty much dependent on the fact, that having seen pictures and statues abroad, they necessarily must have the means of talking of them at home.
"Either that man Langford suspects us or he doesn't. If he suspects us, he has grounds for his suspicion, and any such attempt to throw him off the track would result in failure. I think we had better assume that he knows what we are up to and act accordingly, without appearing to admit it." "But won't they try to cover up the evidence that we are after?" Julietta Hyde reasoned.
How softly the palms were whispering! The moon shone brilliantly. The moonlight nights of the South are brighter than the days of the North. His Julietta, clinging to him, murmured tenderly: "How I love you; we will live and die together." William's head sank on his breast, and he fancied he clasped in his arms the whole kingdom of heaven. How softly the palms were whispering!
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