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Cloudy's ship had been ordered home sooner than had been expected; he had reached Norfolk a week before, B that afternoon, and had immediately procured a horse and hurried on home. Hence his unlooked-for arrival. "How is Thurston? How is Miriam? How are they all at Luckenough?" "All are well; the family at Luckenough are absent in the South, but are expected home every week."
With these words he waved his hand to Miriam and turned toward the camp, where his horse had been fed and watered; but she called after him: "Only one last word: Moses left a message for you in the hollow trunk of the tree." Joshua turned back to the sycamore and read what the man of God had written for him.
The family of Amram was distinguished by a very striking peculiarity. All the three younger branches of which it consisted, Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, because eminent in ancient Israel. Their history is considerably intermingled; but the latter, from the design of this work, will claim our chief attention.
Thurston was frightfully changed, the sufferings of the last month seemed to have made him old his countenance was worn, his voice hollow, and his manner abstracted and uncertain. "Edith," he asked, as he took the chair near her head, "do you feel stronger this morning?" "Yes I always do in the forenoon" "Do you feel well enough to talk of Miriam and her future?" "Oh, yes."
One looked enquiringly at another, and the men would gladly have concealed the terrible truth; but she went on: "Oh, let me know. Ah, I pray you, tell me the truth!" Miriam, who was kneeling beside her, found courage to answer: "Yes, you poor young creature, the wound is deep, but whatever my skill can accomplish shall be done to preserve your life as long as possible."
"You must know, dearest Miriam, it concerned yourself and me!" said Paul, and he took a seat by her side, and told her how much he loved her, and that he had Thurston's consent to asking her hand in marriage. Miriam replied: "Paul, there is one secret that I have never imparted to you not that I wished to keep it from you, but that nothing has occurred to call it out "
"I believe Miss Leece really wants to prevent my winning the prize. That's all." "She has certainly adopted a pet," cried Marian Barber. "What did Miriam Nesbit mean by studying ahead like that?" exclaimed another. "It was disloyal to the whole class." "It looks very much as if they had fixed it up between them," continued Grace.
Early yesterday morning, Miriam, Nettie, and Sophie, who did not then know of their brother's death, went to town in a cart, determined to save some things, Miriam to save her piano. As soon as they were halfway, news reached us that any one was allowed to enter, but none allowed to leave the town, and all vehicles confiscated as soon as they reached there.
As soon as she could collect her thoughts, Miriam led the young man to the gardens of the Villa Medici, hoping that the quiet shade and sunshine of that delightful retreat would a little revive his spirits.
Miriam replied that she, too, would be ready to do so if her husband approved and he himself insisted upon it; for the name was only a garment. Of course offices and honors were another matter.
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