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She turned to her companions, each of whom was ceremoniously standing, but all showing clearly in their faces the curiosity which consumed them. "Come 'long!" said Rebecca, smiling. "Come one and all! I'm blest ef ye don't make me think of Si Pray's dog waitin' to be whistled fer when Si goes out to walk."
The lights in the stores beamed dimly. A green shade in Pray's threw a sickly shaft athwart the pavement. But even as they looked a tall figure, weariness emanating from every movement, stepped between window and light, book in hand, and drew close the blinds. "Poor devil!" sighed Remsen. "Three hours more of work, I dare say, before he stumbles, half blind, into bed. And all for what, Joel?
In which sarcastic but ever reasonable and moderate conversation with that coy bucket I left my friend, and continued on my way with my basket, under Miss Pray's commission to purchase "dangle-berries" at the home of Dr. Spearmint. I heard as I approached: "Oh the road is winding, the road is dark, But sail away to Galilee! Sail away to Galilee!" There was a company as usual gathered at Dr.
I repeatedly saw that damsel's head peering out from behind the gravestones of Miss Pray's ancestors, down by the sea-wall, and making signals to me to know if advance were safe. And every time, prostituting sublime justice to a weak sense of compassion, I waved her back to her fastness until after we should be gone.
Stevens several of whose works are owned in America has commissions to paint in some American gardens and intends to execute them in 1904. <b>STILLMAN, MARIE SPARTALI.</b> Pupil of Ford Madox Brown. This artist first exhibited in public at the Dudley Gallery, London, in 1867, a picture called "Lady Pray's Desire." In 1870 she exhibited at the Royal Academy, "Saint Barbara" and "The Mystic Tryst."
Daniel Gookin, superintendent of the "praying Indians," a gentleman of the highest character, was told that it would not be safe to show himself in the streets of Boston. Mrs. Mary Pray, of Providence, wrote a letter recommending the total extermination of the red men. The measures adopted by the Commissioners certainly went far toward carrying out Mrs. Pray's suggestion.
"Belle O'Neill got me to help her set a trap to ketch a mink and a fox; she said we should git two dollars apiece; and we caught we caught Miss Pray's tom-cat!" Wesley rubbed his grimy hand across his eyes. "She scolded awful and told us to go down to the clam flats and not to come home till we'd got two bushels o' clams for the hens.
It was the lad, Jimmy Kirtland, sent by Vesty surreptitiously to see that I arrived safely at Miss Pray's. I regarded sacredly this innocent device, but, arrived in the house, I heard Jimmy outside pleading cautiously to Miss Pray through the window that he was afraid to go back alone.
She did not blush; she had her Sunday face holy, grave. "Come! God bless you, child!" I said, and limped on, strong against the world. I sat by the fireplace that evening; not a night in all the year in this sweet north country but you shall find the fire welcome. Miss Pray's fireplace stretched wide between door and door. Opposite it were the windows; you saw the water, the moon shone in.
"I'll be whipped if I believe you've got it, after all," she offered discontentedly. "Mebbe they're goin' to send by mail." Martha looked at her a moment, apparently in polite consideration, but really wondering, as she often did, if anything would thicken the hair at Mrs. Pray's parting.
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