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But, dear if, before I go, you could say, 'I understand, it would mean almost more to me, than if you said, 'I forgive." "Jim," said Myra, gently, a tremor of tenderness in her sweet voice, "I understand." He came quite near, and took her hands in his, holding them for a moment, with tender reverence. "Thank you, dear," he said. "You are very good."
At about the same moment Myra and Joe emerged from the West Tenth Street house and started for the court-house. They started, bowing their heads in the wind, holding on to their hats. "Whew!" muttered Joe. "This is a night!" Myra did not dare take his arm, and he spoke a little gruffly. "Better hang on to me."
It was observed that Lady Beaumaris never omitted attending the receptions of Lady Roehampton, and the tone of almost reverential affection with which she ever approached Myra was touching to those who were in the secret, but they were few.
"We're going to see mamma, soon, Myra," he whispered in the pink ear; "and you must go dressed up. It don't matter about me; but you're a Fifth Avenue baby a little aristocrat. These old clothes won't do, now." But she had forgotten the word "mamma," and was more interested in the exciting noise and life of the street than in the clothing she wore.
He knows that Miss Myra Rostrevor, although she looks a mere slip of a girl, is quite capable of riding and handling almost any horse that ever was saddled, and is no more likely to be thrown than any of the Italian officers who have been competing for championships at the Olympia.
Max, sneering his lemon-colored sneer at the mayor's side; at the mayor himself, nonchalant as the admiral being photographed; at Bland, author of the Arabella fiction, sprawling at ease before the fire; at the tawdry Mrs. Norton, and at Myra Thornhill, who had by her pleading the night before made him ridiculous. Who of these had the money now?
If it did come from Fairlands, it must have waited somewhere along the road, to enter the canyon after dark. Do you think that any one else besides Myra Willard and Lagrange and you know that Sibyl started up here?" "I don't think so. The neighbor where she borrowed the horse didn't know where she was going." "Who saw her last?" "I think Mrs. Taine did."
Then, into his musing, came Myra's soft voice, from close beside him, in the darkness: "My husband was always good to me; but " And Jim Airth laid his other hand over the one he held. "I am sure he was," he said, gently. "But if you had been older, and had known more of love and life you would have done differently. Don't try to explain. I understand." And Myra gladly left it at that.
Fisher's establishment had endeared her very much to that good lady, and hence she had, at her earnest request, consented to take Myra, though her own instinct, the moment she cast her eyes upon this beautiful, dawdling-looking being, had assured her that she was, to use her own phrase, not one of her sort. Myra was grievously disappointed, upon her side.
But she was too enthusiastic to waste time on grammar; life forever pressed her too closely to allow repose of thought, of action, or of speech. "Now, don't get huffy, honey," she ran on. "If you only knew how I've Oh, goody! you're going out!" "I was going out, but of course " "Now don't be silly. He isn't coming to see you." Bernie exclaimed in a shocked voice: "Myra Nell!
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