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Evelyn and Rosemary disappeared to take off their hats before the grand presentation ceremony should begin, and Hugh had begun to occupy the time of their absence by lighting the fire with pine cones, when a cry from the beloved voice called him to the room adjoining. The door was open, and the woman and the child stood dumbfounded and overwhelmed in a scene of incredible desolation.
They had gone. Rilla came to herself with a gasp. There was a sudden quiet. Nothing to do now but to go home and wait. The doctor and Mrs. Blythe walked off together so did Nan and Faith so did John Meredith and Rosemary. Walter and Una and Shirley and Di and Carl and Rilla went in a group. Susan had put her bonnet back on her head, hindside foremost, and stalked grimly off alone.
He guessed that but for Cunningham that number of Rangars would never have agreed on a given plan. He knew that it was he, and not Cunningham or Alwa or Rosemary McClean, who had broken faith. He had broken it in thought, and word, and action. And he had lost his prospect of a throne. So he came on like a man who has nothing to gain by considering his safety. He came like a real man at last.
She felt quite sure that John Meredith cared a great deal for her after a fashion and she felt just as sure that he did not care for her as he had cared for his first love. She felt that her refusal would disappoint him considerably, but she did not think it would altogether overwhelm him. Yet she hated to make it; hated for his sake and Rosemary was quite honest with herself for her own.
Myrtle, sweet-briar, sweet-marjoram, sage, thyme, lavender, rosemary, with many other aromatic herbs and flowers, which with us require the most careful cultivation, are here found wild in the mountains.
"Well, dear, there are some things we won't learn except through experience. I'm disappointed that Mother's wishes didn't have more weight with you." Rosemary half expected him to forbid her to leave the house wearing the new shoes, but he went on to his office without another word. She opened the front door noiselessly and hastened uptown to meet Nina Edmonds.
Now, I should love to be able to stay with you for a long, long time, but because I'm only a poor fairy father, I can't. We've been very happy together, and I'm tremendously glad you found me. I shall think of you and of this day, often. But the cruel part is, that when I bring you to your door, I'm afraid I shall have to vanish." "Oh, how dreadful!" cried Rosemary, her voice quivering.
"From the first moment you entered the room," assented Dr. Rob. "Why did you not say so?" asked Jane. "Well, I concluded you had your reasons for being 'Nurse Rosemary Gray, and it did not come within my province to question your identity." "Oh, you dear!" said Jane. "Was there ever anything so shrewd, and so wise, and so bewilderingly far-seeing, standing on two legs on a hearth-rug before!
When she was out of sight he went back under the arch to attend to his three horses; and the moment that he did so a fat but very furtive Hindoo took his place glanced down the street once in the direction that Rosemary had taken and then darted up-street as fast as his shaking paunch would let him.
It has not affected your mother, one way or another, but it has hurt Rosemary taken away from her the one thing that made her sordid life worth while. "Dear, can't you see your way clear to make it right with her to give back at least as much as she had before I came into your life?
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