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One of the fugitives immediately turned, and disappeared within the walls they had left; the other two concealed themselves in a thick grove, the darkness of which was deepened by the glare of torches along its borders. A man richly dressed, with several fillets on his head, and crowned with a garland of violets, ivy, and myrtle, stepped from the boat, supported by the arm of a slave.
When they returned to early dinner they saw it standing in the front hall. "Whatever is this, and why is it put here?" said Alice, springing forward to look at the address: "Miss Kathleen O'Hara, care of Mrs. Tennant, Myrtle Lodge." "Golloptious!" cried Kathleen. "It's my own. It's my clothes my sort of a kind of a treasure. Oh, what delicious fun! Now you will see how smart I can be.
At least it's not quite that they're coming home for good; I wish it were. But if you like, if it won't bother you, I'll read you mamma's letter. 'Yes, do, dear, said the old lady. And Jacinth did so, congratulating herself on what had disappointed Frances, that there was no mention at all in this letter of the Harper family or Mrs Lyle. Lady Myrtle listened with evidently extreme interest.
Captain Ebbetts on an American ship and Captain Barber of the British ship "Myrtle" were in the harbor. Some of the survivors on reaching these ships asked them to rescue their countrymen. Captain Ebbetts ransomed several prisoners, but Captain Barber adopted a more effective course. Chief Katlean and Chief Skayeutlelt came on board his ship to trade.
"Why did you ask me for myself, when you could have claimed me?" she said. "I wanted a free gift, Myrtle," Clement answered, "and I have it." They sat in silence, lost in the sense of that new life which had suddenly risen on their souls. The door-bell rang sharply. Kitty Fagan answered its summons, and presently entered the parlor and announced that Mr.
It isn't as if we were in disgrace, and Bessie threw back her head proudly. 'We have no secrets: father's whole life and character are grand; and rather than have that horrid old Lady Myrtle there, now, I'm calling her just what I told Frances she mustn't rather than have her thinking we want her money, I'd I don't know what I wouldn't do.
Bathsheba had been in all the morning, and the Doctor had said she must take the air every day; so Bathsheba had on her bonnet a little after Olive had gone, and walked straight up to The Poplars to tell Myrtle Hazard that a certain young gentleman, Clement Lindsay, was coming to Oxbow Village.
Myrtle Hazard may or may not have had the plan they attributed to her; however that was, they had looked rather foolish when they met, and had not thought it worth while to be very communicative about the matter when they returned.
He was in his shirtsleeves, waiting until it was his turn to use the bedroom, where Ellen and her mother had locked themselves in. Prom time to time the door was opened a little, and Ellen's bare white arm appeared, as she threw her father some article of attire. Then Pelle's heart began to thump. On the window-sill stood Madam Stolpe's myrtle; it was stripped quite bare.
Captain Harper had left her but the week before, and Jacinth Mildmay was to have joined her a few days later. 'If I could but have been with her, mamma, said the girl among her tears. But perhaps it was better not. To some natures the sorrow of others is very hard to see, and I think Lady Myrtle was one of those. Jacinth was nineteen at the time of her old friend's death.
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