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Over against the west, a little to the north, the gray heavens were visible a lightning seemed to run over them a ghastly red lightning sharply silhouetting the chimneyed housetops. "What is it?" said Myra. He gazed at it, transfixed. "That's a fire ... a big fire." Then suddenly his face, in the pale light of a street-lamp, became chalky white and knotted. He could barely speak.
"I shall have to play with Myra," I said, "because I'm no good at all." "Oh, I'm very good," said Myra. "That looks as though I should have to play with " "Simpson," "Thomas," said Thomas and Simpson together. "You're all giving me a lot of trouble," said Archie, putting his pencil back in his pocket. "I've just written your names out neatly on little bits of paper, and now they're all wasted.
Blake's eyes rested with puzzled interrogation upon the girl, who maintained her most professional air as she smoothed his pillow and admonished him not to overtax himself. When she had disappeared noiselessly, he said: "Well, you needn't put a rose in my hand yet awhile. Tell me what has happened? How is Myra Nell?" "She's heartbroken, of course.
The music in the theater ceased, and among the babel of shouts and cries, and the deafening noise of steel, scraping and crashing over ice, Rowland heard the agonized voice of a woman crying from the bridge steps: "Myra Myra, where are you? Come back." Seventy-five thousand tons dead-weight rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet a second, had hurled itself at an iceberg.
"Now you two boys can run away and play marbles for a while, as Miss Carolan and I want to have a little talk before we go to the 'refined family circle' for dinner," said Myra to her brother.
When in a few days we part, we shall never meet again. And all the devotion of Myra will end in your destroying her." "My own, my beloved Myra, do with me what you like. If " At this moment there was a gentle tap at the door, and the king entered. "My angel," he said, "and you too, my dear Endymion. I have some news from England which I fear may distress you. Lord Montfort is dead."
It happened that Tony, as soon as they were alone, became particularly sentimental and wanted to kiss her a fact which somehow seemed to make the situation still more difficult and complicated. "I don't want to be kissed, Tony," Myra objected, when her lover tried to embrace her. "I feel as if I never want to be kissed again, and I don't want any love-making. Leave me alone!"
After all, he was a stranger to these folk, although he was their countryman and a person of consequence until the war and Myra and circumstances conspired against him. He stifled the resentment which arose from a realization that he must expect nothing else, that it was not injustice so much as stupidity. He reflected that this was natural. A cynical conclusion arose in his mind.
"Yes, but if there IS a pot of home-made marmalade going with it," I said, "so much the better." "Dahlia, earmark the marmalade for this gentleman. Now, what's it going to be? Golf, Simpson?" "Why, of course," said Myra. "Hasn't he been getting it ready for days?" "That will give him an unfair advantage," I pointed out. "He knows every single brick on the greens."
"I suppose it isn't good form to make a fool of one's host, but Don Carlos will deserve anything he may get." "I say, darling, I hope you're not in earnest," Tony remarked. "You seem to be in a dangerous mood to-night, and you look adorably lovely yes, simply scrumptious! You would fascinate any man, my dear, and I am sure even Don Carlos will be clay in your hands. Don't be too hard on him, Myra.
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