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When they reached their own door however, she bolted through the surgery entrance and, running into the garden, hid herself in the summer-house, whither Mavis, after a word to Aunt Nellie, presently followed her to offer what consolation she could. "It's not that I'm jealous of you!" sobbed Merle stormily. "I wanted us both to win!
Tremayne, who thought that the boy's position was rather a lonely one, and that on this first Christmas in particular, after the solution of the mystery of his birth, he would feel the lack of any family of his own and would be glad to be welcomed by friends. Naturally, to Mavis and Merle this was the event of greatest importance, but there was to be another pleasant happening as well.
And gathering her mantle together Madame Merle prepared to depart. She was checked, however, on her progress to the door, by an inconsequent request from Isabel. "All the same, you know, be kind to him." She lifted her shoulders and eyebrows and stood looking at her friend. "I don't understand your contradictions! Decidedly I shan't be kind to him, for it will be a false kindness.
And what Gentleman Waife says as to the vulgar, is uncommon true." This matter settled, and Merle's future secured in a way that his stars, or his version of their language, had not foretold to him, George and Waife walked on to the station, Merle following with the Parson's small carpet-bag, and Sir Isaac charged with Waife's bundle.
"Don't you recognise how the child could never pass for HER husband's? that is with M. Merle himself," her companion resumed. "They had been separated too long for that, and he had gone to some far country I think to South America. If she had ever had children which I'm not sure of she had lost them.
But hers was bills, and mine is nickels and dimes and quarters and all like that thousands of dollars' worth of 'em, and they're kind of disagreeable. They make me limp kind of. I'll give you a lot of it to buy some new clothes. Let's change quick." She turned and backed up to the Merle twin. "Unbutton my waist," she commanded. The Merle twin backed swiftly away.
'Thanks, sir, cried Berenger; 'this is a work of true charity. 'I think I know that voice, said the priest. 'The priest of Nissard! 'Even so, sir. I was seeking M. de Nid de Merle, and had but just learnt that he had been left behind wounded. 'You came to tell him of his sister?
"To show the difference, let me rather say the contrast, between the point of view of Mr. Motley and my own, between the Unitarian and the Evangelical belief. Faithful to the device of the Reformers: Justification by faith alone, and the Word of God endures eternally. I consider history from the point of view of Merle d'Aubigne, Chalmers, Guizot.
"Captain," said the marquis to Merle, repeating to the Republican his own words, "you see that men are like medlars, they ripen on the straw." He pointed with a wave of his hand to the entire escort of the Blues lying on the bloody litter where the Chouans were despatching those who still breathed, and rifling the dead bodies with incredible rapidity.
"Our boys aren't queer fish not a bit!" rising to hot defense of Stud, the Stoutheart, who even in callow youth, was of opinion that Life in every phase was a game for two in which two, of differing sexes, could hunt together and make good headway. "To be sure, they do love to get off jokes on each other and occasionally on us," went on Jessie, the brown-haired merle in maiden form.
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