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"I pray without ceasing that he may be acquitted of the crime for which he is imprisoned," replied Elvira Gordon, over her folded hands. Madelon looked at her. "You are a good woman," said she, with fierce scorn. "You are a member of Parson Fair's church, and you keep to the commandments and all the creed.
As a rule, a child must have its attention drawn in some particular way to its everyday surroundings, or they must strike it in some new and unfamiliar light, before they rouse more than a passing curiosity; and though Madelon would sometimes question her father as to the meaning and intention of this or that procession passing along the streets, he found no difficulty in putting her off with vague answers.
Burr bent down and kissed her, and she threw her arms around him and pressed his head to her bosom. "They shall not," she cried out, fiercely "they shall not hang you! I will make them believe me! Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Burr." "Madelon," Burr said, huskily, "I have been double-faced and false to you, but, as God is my witness, I'm glad I've got the chance to suffer in your stead."
There has been a disposition to credit the founder of the Samedis with many of the affectations which brought such deserved ridicule upon their bourgeois imitators, and to trace in her the original of Moliere's "Madelon."
Richard got up and came around before her, thrusting his hand in his pocket. He pulled out his own clasp-knife, and brandished it in her face. "Here is my knife," he cried, fiercely "my knife, with my name cut in the handle. Say you killed Lot Gordon with it again!" Madelon snatched the knife out of her brother's hand and looked at it with straining eyes.
"So you see I have come back sooner than I expected, Madelon," said Graham, taking the little hands that were stretched out to him so eagerly through the grating, "but I don't know what you will say to me, for I shall not have time for the walk I promised you, when I thought I should stay two or three days in Liége.
"Never in a church before!" echoed a chorus of three astonished voices, while Monsieur added "Never in this church, you mean." "No," answered Madelon, "it is the first time I ever went into a church at all." "But, mon enfant," said the mother, "you are big enough to have gone to church long before this.
Madelon was naturally classed with the latter of these two sets during the lesson hours, but she stood decidedly aloof from them afterwards, at first through shyness, and then with a sort of wondering disdain.
It was I! He met me, and tried to kiss me, and the knife was in my hand Richard made me take it because I was coming home alone, and there had been rumors of a bear." "I did not," persisted Richard, doggedly. "I did not make her take my knife. Here is my knife, with my name cut in the handle." Madelon turned on him fiercely. "You did, you know you did!" said she.
She was roused up presently, and made to drink some wine by Madame Bertrand, who was in despair because she could eat none of the good things she had provided, and felt nothing but and old traitress, as Madelon stood up at last, looking about her with dazed eyes; and then, without further opposition, submissively put on her hat, took up her bundle, and prepared to follow the Countess.
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