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It was with a great effort that the poor girl could suppress the shriek that nearly rose to her lips as the unconscious Miss Tredgold touched her burnt arm. "We will forget about yesterday, Pauline," said her aunt. "We will go back to work this morning just as though there never had been any yesterday. Do you understand?" "I think so," said Pauline. "Do you happen to know your lessons?"
But, Pauline, I am very glad that you have shown her you desire her presence." He put his hand on her curly head, and looked with more than usual affection at the bright, honest face. "Beulah, you must get ready for school. Come down as soon as you can. Pauline will be waiting for you." Mrs.
I know that you are in good hands, but it is my place to be beside you, and I am jealous of the chance which Pauline has of nursing you. Tell Pauline this. Tell her that I am dreadfully jealous, and that unless she brings you to health within a very few days, I shall myself lead a storming party which will succeed in wreaking its vengeance. Pardon this banter. Give my love to Pauline.
If the reading of this book has interested you, do not fail to get its sequel, entitled "KREUTZER SONATA BEARING FRUIT," by Pauline Grayson, which is an exceedingly interesting narrative showing one of the results of the ideas set forth in "Kreutzer Sonata." It is bound in paper covers and will be sent by mail, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 cents.
In Sigmaringen, Altenburg, and Meiningen the constitutional movement was, on the contrary, countenanced and encouraged by the princes. Pauline, the liberal-minded princess of Lippe-Detmold, had already drawn up a constitution for her petty territory with her own hand, when the nobility rose against it, and, aided by the federal assembly, compelled her to withdraw it.
"Come now, dear, isn't he handsome?" continued Roderick, proud of his triumph and full of mischief. "Well, yes, he is handsome," answered Pauline with a delicious pout and mock-show of aggressiveness. "And what else?" "Modest." "What else?" "Refined." "What else?" "Educated." "What else?" "Kind." "Kind to you, dear?" "Particularly kind to me." "Thank him for that.
"But see, Otto," said the little girl, "if I tell him, wilt thou promise to come indeed and marry me when thou art grown a man?" "Yes," said Otto, very seriously, "I will promise." "Then I will tell thy father where thou art," said she. "But thou wilt do it without the Baron Henry knowing, wilt thou not, Pauline?"
"See how clear the Euganean hills are," Pauline said, looking out through the little window to those deep-blue pyramids, rising beyond the wide, opaline waters.
Leaving her airy cradle, Pauline bent over the balcony as if to gather the climbing roses that waved their ruddy clusters in the wind. Before the third stem was broken Manuel whispered, "I see the curtain move; now comes the outline of a head, and now a hand, with some bright object in it. Santo Pablo! It is a man staring at you as coolly as if you were a lady in a balcony.
For a half-hour she sat so, and then, suddenly, she raised her head listening, leaning towards the window, through which the moonlight streamed. She heard her name called without, distinct and strange "Pauline! Pauline!" Starting up, she ran to the door and opened it. All was silent and cruelly cold. Nothing but the wide plain of snow and the steely air.
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