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Some of these flowers were nestled about in the lace on the upper part of the waist as if they had grown there, and some caught up the short lace sleeves. "How do you like it?" asked Elinor. It was really rather a superfluous question. "I love it!" burst from Arethusa. "I think it is Perfectly Beautiful!" Then she turned around. "But I just know, Mother, that Aunt 'Liza won't like it at all."
Just think what a lot of trouble it must be to keep them all clothed and fed!" "And poor 'Liza will have to do it all herself while Ajax is in jail." "I don't believe he was much help anyhow," said Lulu, with a scornful little toss of her head; "she says he didn't work half the time and was always getting drunk and beating her and the children.
She was in too much agony to weep. What had she done? What could she do? When she lifted her eyes, Liza Branthwaite was beside her, looking amazed and even frightened. "What has happened, lass?" said Liza fearfully. Then Rotha, having no other heart to trust with her haunting secret, confided it to this simple girl. "And what can I do?" she added in a last word.
Suddenly now, as the dense silence enveloped the club, old Andrew awoke and remarked vividly: "I was a-dreaming of Theodore Starr!" "Now what in thunder!" cried Tod Greeley, who had purposely refrained from mentioning some part of his late visitor's conversation, "what made you think of Theodore Starr?" "I reckon," whined the trembling old voice, "that it was 'long o' Liza Hope.
We must send for a doctor; but for whom? Gedeonovsky praised some one the other day; but then he always lies but perhaps he has actually told the truth this time." But when she had become convinced that Liza was not ill, and was not raving when to all her objections Liza had constantly made the same reply, Marfa Timofeevna was thoroughly alarmed, and became exceedingly sorrowful.
'You won't sty in long, I lay, he said, as he sent the old bowler fielding and took the ball himself. He was a young gentleman who did not suffer from excessive backwardness. 'Aht! shouted a dozen voices as the ball went past Liza's bat and landed in the pile of coats which formed the wicket. The captain came forward to resume his innings, but Liza held the bat away from him.
Although she hated very much to employ a strange man, still if he put off much longer fixing that spout, she was going to send for the new tin-smith at the Junction. Finally, Arethusa felt that she could not stand all this irrelevancy another second; her impatient longing had to be expressed. "Please, Aunt 'Liza, what did Father say?" Miss Eliza dropped her glasses to the end of her nose.
The bell rang, and, throwing over their work, the girls trooped off, and after chattering in groups outside the factory gates for a while, made their way in different directions to their respective homes. Liza and Sally went along together. 'I sy, we are comin' aht! cried Sally, seeing the advertisement of a play being acted at the neighbouring theatre.
Even Apraxia, who had outlived, not only her intelligence, but almost all her faculties, shook her head, and followed him with sad eyes as he started in the tarantass for the town. The horses galloped. He sat erect and motionless, and looked straight along the road. Liza had written to Lavretsky the night before telling him to come and see her on this evening; but he went to his own house first.
What's it for? What's the object of it?" His eyes glowed. "Liza," he cried, "I swear I love you now more than yesterday when you came to me!" "What a strange declaration! Why bring in yesterday and to-day and these comparisons?" "You won't leave me," he went on, almost with despair; "we will go away together, to-day, won't we? Won't we?" "Aie, don't squeeze my hand so painfully!
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