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"God bless and reconcile thee, poor child!" he said, in a voice choked with contending passions and the door closed upon his form. "I thank thee, Heaven, that it was not Muza!" muttered Leila, breaking from a reverie in which she seemed to be communing with her own soul: "I feel that I could not have resisted him."
The butcher made use of unpleasant language, as John relieved said, "The sale is over. You can settle with Mr. Grace." As he spoke he moved over to where Leila stood beside the two McGregors. The people rose and put on their cloaks preparing to leave. Then John heard Tom McGregor say, "Look out, father! Something is going to happen." The Colonel moved forward unsteadily.
At the same instant a hansom drove up; Sylvia sprang out, ran lightly up the low steps, and the silent, shrouded house rang with the clamour of the bell. Leila looked curiously at Quarrier, who sat motionless, head partly averted, as though listening to something heard by him alone.
"These words could not but seem strange as we had certainly never seen each other before; but the voice with which they were uttered was stranger still. "If crystal could utter thought, so it would speak. "'My friend Ary, continued Paul, 'is to be married in six weeks. "At these words Leila looked at me and I saw distinctly that her golden eyes said 'No!
"And I thought it was so romantic about him and this Leila Grey. She was so beautiful and he had been so brave in the war. And so I wondered " "Well, don't you wonder about who's coming to that dance. That dance is mine," said Johnny definitely. "I want you to look your darndest put it all over those flappers. Show them what you got," admonished Johnny with the simple directness in such vogue.
No, if Leila really liked anybody I always had the notion it was Barry but she wanted Bobby." For a long moment Cousin Jim was silent, turning the thing over with his cigar. Maria Angelina sat still as a mouse, fearful to breathe lest the bewildering revelations cease. Cousin Jane, over her second cup of coffee, had the air of a humorous and superior oracle. Then Mr.
Come, John." "One minute, please," said Mrs. Crocker, "I'm not half done. I tell you, Captain John, there's a heap of human nature comin' and goin' through a post-office. Well, good-bye." They rode away to Grey Pine exchanging bits from their letters. Their uncle and aunt would be home in a week. "Sooner if they get the letter I mailed last night," laughed Leila. "I should like to have seen it."
And as the ray of the sun flashed in the east it fell like a glory, over a crucifix, placed in the deep recess of the Gothic casement; and brought startlingly before the eyes of Leila that face upon which the rudest of the Catholic sculptors rarely fail to preserve the mystic and awful union of the expiring anguish of the man with the lofty patience of the God.
I therfore observed that I considered it unpatriotic, with the Enemy at our gatez, to have Sauterne on the table and a Cocktail beforehand, as well as expencive tobacco and so on, even although economising in other ways, such as furnature. "What's that?" my father said to me, in a sharp tone. "Let her alone, father," Leila said. "She's just dramatising herself as usual.
After breakfast he was driven to the village with his aunt and equipped with a rough ready-made overcoat and high boots. He found the dress comfortable, but not to his taste. When he came back, the Squire and Leila had disappeared and he was left to his own devices. He was advised by his aunt to walk about and see the stables and the horses.
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