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Her mother had informed her of this on a hundred occasions and in countless ways; but more by her actions, her present wretchedness, than by speech. It was perfectly clear to Linda that nothing else mattered. She was even beginning, in a vague way, to think of it in connection with herself; but still most of her preoccupation was in her mother.
I don't know what is behind it, but there's a certain feeling that always has been strong in my heart and it never was so strong as it is at this minute." So they boarded the street car and ran out to Lilac Valley. When Katy admitted them Linda put her arm around her and kissed her.
Which do you prefer, Marian?" "I'll take the architect," said Marian. "We should have something in common since I am going to be a great architect myself one of these days." "Why, that is too bad," said Linda. "I'll have to rearrange the table if you insist, because I took him, and left you the author, and it was for love of you I did it. I truly wanted him myself, all the time."
"No," said Judge Whiting, "I don't think such a thing would occur to him unless he saw it." "Neither do I," said Linda. "From the short acquaintance I have with him I should not call him at all imaginative, but he is extremely quick and wonderfully retentive. You have to show him but once from which cactus he can get Victrola needles and fishing hooks, or where to find material for wooden legs."
Ramy; and guided by Linda the pair walked along the fence till they reached a narrow gap in its boards. Through this they disappeared, watched curiously in their descent by the grinning Linda, while Mrs. Hochmuller and Ann Eliza were left alone in the summer-house. Mrs. Hochmuller looked at her guest with a confidential smile.
"Why, I just wrote these letters that I am telling you about," said Linda, "and I said the things that I thought would comfort her and entertain her and help with her work; and these are the answers that she wrote me, and I don't think I realized till last night that she was truly attributing them to any one man, truly believing in them.
Then she had feared opposition, feared Linda's shocked references to decent intervals of mourning; Linda's frank unbelief that there was no strong personal feeling involved on Richard's part; Linda's advice to a bride. Harriet's face burned at the mere thought of it. No, she couldn't tell Linda yet; she was too tired to write to-night, anyway.
Before the morning was over she was in bed, and her uncle's wife was at her bedside, and there had been fair-haired cousins in her room, creeping in to gaze at her with their soft blue eyes, touching her with their young soft hands, and calling her Cousin Linda with their soft voices.
"We have been in the same classes all through high school. I think the little monkey " "Man, you mean," interposed Linda. "'Man," conceded Donald. "Has waited until I selected my course all the way through, and then he has announced what he would take. He probably figured that I had somebody with brains back of the course I selected, and that whatever I studied would be suitable for him."
If she must come, let her come another Saturday." "I will think about it," said Mrs. Hartrick. "I have certainly promised and But I will think about it." Linda saw that she could not press her mother any further. She went away in great disquietude. "What is to be done?" she thought.
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