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It came to a full stop in front of the Merrill house, and George saw Lily's head behind a stand of ferns in one of the front windows. He raised his hat, and she bowed, and he could see her blush even at that distance.
He started up from his pillows, and seized her wrist with a strength which she had not thought remained in his fingers. "Mr. Merrill!" he cried "Mr. Merrill here!" "Yes," answered Cynthia, agitatedly, "he's downstairs in the store." "Ask him to come up," said Wetherell, sinking back again, "ask him to come up." Cynthia, as she stood in the passage, was of two minds about it.
Says he to his wife: 'Fanny, I told you Jethro'd get even with you some time for that sarcer business." This story, strange as it may seem, had a great success at Mr. Merrill's table. Mr. Merrill and his daughter Susan shrieked with laughter when it was finished, while Mrs. Merrill and Jane enjoyed themselves quite as much in their quiet way.
Before the December snows set in Cynthia had made one firm friend, at least, in Boston; outside of the Merrill family. That friend was Miss Lucretia Penniman, editress of the Woman's Hour.
See that they don't make up those four points. Hale and Merrill are playing finely." "They don't suspect a thing, either," declared Natalie. "I am afraid those freshies will set up a squeal to the sports committee if we win." "If? You must win. No ifs about it," decreed Leslie. "What can they say? You haven't broken the rules of the game.
Stannard had called Merrill to witness the statement; then, giving Wilkins injunctions to say nothing more to anybody on the subject, and pledging Merrill to reticence, he had gone home, written brief and hurried letters to Ray and to Gleason, told his wife that he had heard the stories, and that until Ray had a chance to explain would regard them as baseless rumors, or at the worst as exaggerations, for which Gleason was responsible; then he had slept the sleep of the just until the corporal of the guard came banging at the door at four A.M. to say the reveille had sounded out in camp.
"Well, Merrill, I admit that she is as fine-looking a woman as I have ever seen," he said, "but I believe that I am proof against the blandishments of the fair sex upon principle; for," more gravely, "I have never had any desire to change my condition since I lost my wife. My reason for requesting the introduction was, I thought Mrs.
"I I have no right to be proud I have taken his money he has supported my daughter and myself all these years. But he had never asked me to to do anything, and I liked to think that he never would." Mr. Merrill could not speak. The tears were streaming down his cheeks. "I want you to promise me, Mr.
A small party, including the Hartleys, the Van Huysmans, Merrill, and Lord Leighton, had been asked to stay to dinner, but it happened that they had a conversazione already included in the day's programme, and so they took their departure soon after the others, the Professor, it must be confessed, in a somewhat morose frame of mind.
He never knew, indeed, until many years afterward, what had brought Stephen Merrill to Coniston. When Jethro went up the stairs that afternoon, he found William Wetherell alone, looking out over the garden with a new peace and contentment in his eyes. Jethro drew breath when he saw that look, as if a great load had been lifted from his heart. "F-feelin' some better to-day, Will?" he said.
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