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"Wahn't it charity." "It was friendship, Jethro. You ought to have known that, and you should not have brought back the book." "Friendship," he repeated, "y-you said friendship?" "Yes." "M-meant friendship?" "Yes," said Cynthia, but more faintly, and yet with a certain delicious fright as she glanced at him shyly. Surely there had never been a stranger man! Now he was apparently in a revery.
"Oh, no, I don't know their lingo; but I could understand just what he said, and what's m-more, I know he m-meant it. I didn't want to be a c-cold corpse out there in the woods, so I got up and struggled on again. "At last they camped for the night. They laid me on my back and t-tied my hands and feet to stakes d-driven into the ground. "I saw Major P-Putnam, who had been captured by some Injuns.
"I can rise canary-birds an' sell 'em a dollar apiece in the city. I m-meant to slide out account o' my health, but it was just because I hate to muss 'round b-boilin' eggs for the little ones. I'll raise a couple or two mebbe more." "My good land!" came Miss Liddy Ember's piping falsetto; "to think o' my sittin' up, hesitatin', when new dresses just falls off the ends o' my fingers.
"Wahn't it charity." "It was friendship, Jethro. You ought to have known that, and you should not have brought back the book." "Friendship," he repeated, "y-you said friendship?" "Yes." "M-meant friendship?" "Yes," said Cynthia, but more faintly, and yet with a certain delicious fright as she glanced at him shyly. Surely there had never been a stranger man! Now he was apparently in a revery.
I never m-meant it!" he groaned and, starting to his knees, he caught at Barnabas with wild, imploring hands: "Oh, Beverley, I s-swear to you I n-never meant to do it. I went there tonight to l-learn the truth, and he th-threatened me threatened me, I tell you, s-so we fought and he was s-strong and swung me against the w-wall.
"Wahn't it charity." "It was friendship, Jethro. You ought to have known that, and you should not have brought back the book." "Friendship," he repeated, "y-you said friendship?" "Yes." "M-meant friendship?" "Yes," said Cynthia, but more faintly, and yet with a certain delicious fright as she glanced at him shyly. Surely there had never been a stranger man! Now he was apparently in a revery.
Yes, I k-killed Jasper Gaunt, but it was no m-murder, Clo a a fight, an accident yes, I s-swear to God I never meant to do it." "You!" she whispered, "you?" "Yes, I I did it, but I swear I never m-meant to oh, Cleone " and he reached down to her with hands outstretched appealingly.
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