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And, moreover, Linda, though she was now willing in her desperation to cast aside all religious scruples of her own, still feared those with which her aunt was armed.
Oh, Peter, I wasn't asleep a minute all last night, and for the first time I failed in my lessons today." "And what is the culmination, Linda?" urged Peter. "She liked the letters, Peter. They meant all I intended them to and they must have meant something I never could have imagined.
And money did it- -and if you and Fred had two thousand, or twenty thousand, a month, instead of two hundred, do you mean to tell me your lives wouldn't be fuller, and richer, and happier? You shake your head, Linda, but that's just to make me furious, for you know it's true! I admire Mrs.
Altogether, Linda decided, she was rather silly, especially about men; and at times her emotions would rise beyond control until she wept in a thin hysterical gasping. The room where, mostly, they sat was small, but with a high ceiling, and hung in black, with pagoda-like vermilion chairs.
You know that there were other heirs who turned up when Nan's father and mother got over to Scotland, and one while Nan thought she would have to leave school because there wasn't money enough to pay her tuition fees." "Yes, I know all about that," admitted Cora, hurriedly. She had a vivid remembrance of the unfinished letter from Nan to her mother, which she had found and shown to Linda.
I sat beside the fire, listening to the fine, measured fall of Peleg's axe so much more vital with the spirit of music than his flute; looking at Calliope's brown earthen baking dishes so much purer in line than the village bric-a-brac; thinking of Peleg's story and of the life that beat within it as life does not beat in the unaided letter of the law. But chiefly I thought of Linda Loneway.
But she suspected at once that the elder brother had had a hint that matters were at least under consideration, and the rather aimless laugh with which Linda presently embraced her, and the air of suppressed excitement that marked the Christmas dinner, all confirmed the suspicion. She felt a prickling sensation of the skin; a flush of helpless annoyance.
"Unless you want to marry somebody pretty soon you'd better not risk it," said Destyn, gravely. "You you don't particularly care to marry anybody, just now, do you, dear?" asked Linda. "No," replied her sister, scornfully. There was a silence; Sacharissa, uneasy, bit her underlip and sat looking at the uncanny machine.
Oh, if she could only make herself certain that heaven would aid her, then the thing would be done for her. She could not be certain, and therefore she felt herself to be a wretched sinner. In the mean time, Linda was in bed up-stairs, thinking over her position, and making up her mind as to what should be her future conduct.
For a long time she had supposed that her studies were difficult for her, and when she had asked Linda if it were not possible for her to prepare her lessons without so many hours of midnight study she had caught the stare of frank amazement with which the girl regarded her and in that surprised, almost grieved look she had realized that very probably a daughter of Alexander Strong, who resembled him as Linda resembled him, would not be compelled to overwork to master the prescribed course of any city high school.
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