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"I've told you before, I have so much motive power that I don't know how to use it." "How about sharing a little of it with a friend!" Lavendar's voice was full of meaning, but Robinette refused to hear it. She had succumbed as quickly to his charm as he to hers, but while she still had command over her heart she did not intend parting with it unless she could give it wholly.
If you don't, you will be doing just what she did. Be kind to her helpless soul, as Miss Lydia was kind to your helpless body." Still silence. Then suddenly Mary's son flung Doctor Lavendar's hand from his arm, and turned back, almost running, to vanish in the shadows of his grandfather's driveway.
"It is my intention," said the youth, "to return to my father the value of the vehicle and nag, as soon as I can secure a position which will enable me to support my Lefty in comfort and fashion." On the night of the elopement the two children met at the minister's house. Lavendar's Collect class. But of course there was no Dr.
Lavendar's church " "Good gracious!" said William King. "They were not enough. So I used a charm. I made a drink " "Ah!" said the doctor, frowning. "What was in the drink, Miss Philly?" "Perhaps it was not the right herb," she said; "it may have been 'mother-wort'; but the book said 'monk's-hood, and I " William King reached for his whip and cut Jinny across the flanks.
Lavendar's directions came back to her with a slight shock she must hear him say his prayers. How was she to introduce the subject? The embarrassed color burned in her cheeks as she helped him undress and tried to decide on the proper moment to speak of prayers. But David took the matter into his own hands.
Lavendar, tucking things into his valise and singing to himself, it was to realize again the immutable past. "No," he said slowly, "you can't get back behind, and begin again." Dr. Lavendar, understanding, chuckled. "Can God?" said David. At that Dr. Lavendar's face suddenly shone. "David," he said, "the greatest thing in the world is to know that God is always beginning again!"
He stopped short, and to Lavendar's astonishment, his face worked, and two tears squeezed themselves out of his eyes and rolled over his round cheeks as they might have done over a baby's. "It's the j-jam I was thinking of," he sniffed. "Once a pal of mine and I were playing the fool in old Mrs. She didn't mind a bit.
Everybody concerned in Miss Lavendar's story was very happy. Paul Irving rushed to Green Gables to talk the news over with Anne as soon as his father had told him. "I knew I could trust father to pick me out a nice little second mother," he said proudly. "It's a fine thing to have a father you can depend on, teacher. I just love Miss Lavendar. Grandma is pleased, too.
"Well; you had better go to New York; what will you do with your youngster?" he interrupted himself. "Leave him on Dr. Lavendar's doorstep, I suppose?" "My youngster?" she repeated. "Do you mean David?" Mr. Pryor nodded absently, he was not interested in David. "Why," Helena said breathlessly, "you didn't suppose I was going to leave David?"
The movements of her imagination are cumbered by a too narrow however charming cage. Her excellence belongs to the hours when, not trying to transcend her little Pennsylvania universe, she brings accuracy and shrewdness and felicity to the chronicles of small beer in Old Chester Tales and Dr. Lavendar's People.
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