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All agreed in making me feel at once at home, and part of the family; all received me with the most unaffected cordiality: but from Maria it was something more. She more than fulfilled the promise of her letter; she made me at once her most intimate friend; and in all the serious concerns of life, and in every trifle of the day, treated me with the most generous confidence.
Not so utterly had victory in such contests deserted her hands, that she need fear to break a lance with Miss Amedroz beneath her own roof, when the occasion was so pressing. The invitation was therefore sent in a note written by herself, and was enclosed in a letter from her son.
Her reason was obviously to keep her own plans from her boy's knowledge, but so clumsily did she skip to another part of the letter, that, all unconscious of it, she drew from her audience a sharp look of inquiry.
"And I think there are a hundred other verses, which I will spare you; not that I forget them, for the soldiers sang them over and over, and I had nothing better to do than to lie awake and listen. "So that is all. I hear my messenger moving about below; I am to drop this letter down to him, as all are asleep, and to open the big door might wake them. "Good-bye.
And it is characteristic of the man that, for all his grinding sense of injury, he blamed himself more bitterly than he blamed his wife. His eye fell on the letter, which, had it contained a bombshell, could scarce have wrought more damage in so short a space of time. Tearing it across and across, he flung it into the fire, and derived a gloomy satisfaction from watching it burn.
If anything happens, how shall I pacify Susie? She made me promise every possible care of her favorite. Look here, only an hour ago I received a letter and this package marked, 'One for Ned; the other for Miss Beryl. Two little red flannel safety bags, cure-alls, to be tied around our necks, close to our noses, as if we could not smell them a half mile off?
Mr Armstrong was perusing the letter with knitted brows and a curl of his lips. He vouchsafed no reply until he had come to the end. Then he shook the glass ominously out of his eye and said "I'll tell you that when I see him." Roger knew his tutor well enough to see that he did not like the letter at all, and he felt somewhat fortified in his own misgivings accordingly.
One day when Henry was registering in the round-house, he saw a letter in the rack for him, and carried it home to read after supper. When he read it, he jumped out of his chair. "Why, Henry!" said his wife, putting down her knitting, "what ever's the matter, open switch or red light?" "Worse, Mary; it's the end of the track."
"I believe you are right," he said. "I will take you home in my carriage, Mrs. "Brackett," said she, with pride. The senator stepped into the hall and raised his voice the least trifle. "Daughter!" She answered from several rooms away, and came running. Her hands were inky, and she held a letter. She was no longer the timid little girl of the island, for somehow that escapade had emancipated her.
Not pack boots again? Never? 'Mind your form, Two! Don't cry! Go quietly over the river sleep!... Dark? If somebody would strike his watch!... A sealed letter in the handwriting of Mr.
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