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"I heard she was here run away from school, you see, ma'am but I'll forgive the little gypsy. Tell her old Uncle John is here. She'll be powerful glad to see me." Slowly and gently they broke to him the cruel story.
He clung to railing as he spoke, and a great wave half drowned him; but he managed to salute, and Clif saw a look of wild delight on his face, one that just corresponded with his own eager mood. "She'll split in about half a minute, I fancy," the cadet answered, "and the Spaniards are welcome to what's left. We've done our duty."
"The circumstances under which I brought her here are a little unusual, and I am not quite sure " "Take her home to bed," the doctor interrupted, "and you'll find she'll sleep it off. She seems to have a splendid constitution, although she has let herself run down. If you need any further advice and your own medical man is not available, I will come and see her if you send for me.
"Mis' Loomis can lay her out," they said. "It ain't likely that young Evelina knows anything about such things. Guess she'll be thankful she's got somebody to call on now, if she 'ain't mixed much with the Loomises."
'Your mother was yesterday in her usual health and sound mind? he interrogated gently. 'She was indeed, sir, and she wiped a tear. 'I would like to see your mother, persisted he. 'She had a stroke in the night, sir; she's lying easy now, but she knows no one, and the doctor says she'll never hear or see or speak again. The old man sighed deeply.
Splendid bracelets were on her arms, and one row of large white pearls encircled her throat. She looked like a queen, and Phyllis wished Richard could have seen her. "She'll be a varry proper mistress o' Hallam-Croft," thought the squire, with a passing sigh. But his eyes dwelt with delight upon Phyllis. "Eh!" he said, "but thou art a bonny lass!
'And he would talk to us about that as good as a book, and tell of a picture he had seen in your caravan, and what you used to teach him about it. 'And just before he died, says he, "Tom, write and tell Miss Rosie; she'll be glad like to hear I didn't forget it all." 'So now I've wrote, and pardon my mistakes, and the liberty. 'From yours truly,
"When we begin going down hill," I said, all the while winking at Westy, "she'll go easier, thank goodness." "We'll have to put on the brakes," Westy said. "Do you know why they talk about towing lumber?" I asked Pee-wee; "because it's measured by the foot." "You're crazy!" he shouted. "Just the same as when they use it for back fences, it's measured by the yard," Westy said, all sober like.
"Dolly'll watch for gan-pa," she murmured, with long pauses between the words, which seemed to drop one by one upon Tony's ear; "and Dolly'll watch at the door for Tony to come home; and she'll fret ever so if he never comes."
And I'll tell you what I think: it's very likely Monica was pulled up just in time by discovering you understand? that she was more your wife than any one else's. Something tells me that's how it was. Just try to look at it in that way. If the child lives she'll be different. She has sowed her wild oats why shouldn't a woman as well as a man? Go down to Clevedon and forgive her.
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