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Cicely Marsworth before her marriage in early March had seen Nelly twice and had reported against the grain that although 'most unbecomingly thin, the obstinate little creature said she was well, and apparently was well. Everybody in the hospital, said Cicely, was at Nelly's feet. 'It is of course nonsense for her to lay down, that she won't be petted, Nature has settled that for her.
Of course," Aunt added uneasily, "we're glad to see any friend of Nelly's." "Oh, by the way, I'm interviewing you," Cadge announced; Star wants to follow up its beat. You haven't talked?" "Why, no; but do I have to be interviewed?" Just at first the idea was a shock, I must confess. "Do you have to be interviewed? Wish all interviewees were as meek.
Welles', and flung herself into them with a frightened desire for something that would drown out the roaring wind of tragedy which filled her ears in every pause of the day's activities, and woke her up at night out of the soundest sleep. Night after night, she found herself sitting up in bed, her night-gown and hair damp with perspiration, Nelly's scream ringing knife-like in her ears.
There were two things in life with which he felt totally unable to cope, crying girls and dog-fights. The glimpse he had caught of Nelly's face froze him into a speechlessness which lasted until they reached Daubeny Street and stopped at her door. "Good-bye," said Nelly. "Good-bye-ee!" said Freddie mechanically. "That's to say, I mean to say, half a second!" he added quickly.
But, of Nelly's being made a wife, there was no prospect; she was three-and-thirty; so far as was known, no lover had ever ventured to throw himself upon his knees before her, begging to be permitted to kiss her foot, and threatening, at the same time, to hang himself, if she did not consent to be his better half; still there was no appearance of any one doing so; and those who delighted in tracing effects back to their proper causes, began to recollect that her mother, "when she was a thoughtless lassie," had once given some offence to one of the witches, who were accused of holding nightly revels in the glen; and the witch, by way of retaliation, had said, that "the bairn unborn would maybe hae cause to rue its mother's impudence."
The oaks were still laden with leaf; the fern was still scarlet on the slopes; and the ghylls and waterfalls leapt foaming white down their ancestral courses. And in this austerer world, Nelly's delicate personality, as though braced by the touch of winter, seemed to move more lightly and buoyantly.
Aunt Katherine will reach Annapolis before I do and then " and Peggy stopped and wagged her head as though pursuit of the subject would better be dropped. Nelly's face clouded. It had not required the two days of Mrs. Stewart's visit to circulate a good many reports concerning her.
Besides, I'm beginning to hope!" She paused, then made a little gesture of abandon. "Then stay, stay!" she whispered with eyes on fire. "And good luck to you, Mr. Donnegan!" As they went back, toward Nelly's table, where Jack Landis was trying to appear carelessly at ease, the face of Donnegan was pale.
But for his attitude she cared little so long as she had him riding away from that house on the hill where Lord Nick in all his terror would appear in some few minutes. Besides, as they swung up the road the chestnut at a long-strided canter and Nelly's black at a soft and choppy pace the wind of the gallop struck into her face; Nelly was made to enjoy things one by one and not two by two.
The leaves were beginning to take hectic tints, and the wind was practising the minor pathetic notes of its autumnal dirge. Nature and myself appeared to be approaching our dissolution simultaneously One evening, the evening previous to the day set for Nelly's departure how well I remember it I found her sitting alone by the wide chimney-piece looking musingly at the crackling back log.
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