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Rupert looked down at the hand. It was so fair and soft and full of the expression of sympathy such an adorably womanly little hand, that one's first impulse was to lay one's own upon it. He made a movement and then remembered, and looked up, and their eyes met and rested on each other gently. When the subject of the claim was broached, Sheba thought it like a fairy tale.
"It's to be a long trail we cover to-morrow, Sheba. You must sleep. Good-night." "Good-night Gordon." There was a little flash of audacity in the whimsical twist of her mouth. It was the first time she had ever called him by his given name. Elliot threw away prudence and caught her by the hands. "My dear my dear!" he cried.
He shrank from meeting the real Ida May again. At any rate, he wanted first to get the lay of the land from the old man. He looked into the dim interior of the place and for a moment did not see Cap'n Ira at all. The ghostly face of the Queen of Sheba appeared at the opening over her manger.
Now you bend your lovely head, and I puts it on you oh, ain't you more beautiful than the Queen of Sheba! And ain't you Melky's queen, Mrs. Goldmark say you was!" "Lor', Mr. Rubinstein!" said Mrs. Goldmark, coyly. "It's as if you was proposing to me!" "Why, ain't I?" exclaimed Melky, gathering courage. "Don't you see I'm in all my best clothes? Ain't it nothing but weddings, just now? There's Mr.
"D'ye reckin she understands?" the younger daughter said, cautiously. "Lordy, no!" answered the mother; "we ain't said nothin'. Ye kin go ef ye want to, Sheba," she added, cheerfully. "Thar's a little rocking-cheer that ye kin set in. Help her down, Luce." But she had already slipped down and found her way to the door opening out on to the street.
Why, you a'n't no more like that little bare-footed, tangle-haired, rosy-faced Edna that used to run around these woods in striped homespun, hunting the cows, than I, Dorothy Elmira Wood, am like the Queen of Sheba when she went up visiting to Jerusalem to call on Solomon. How wonderful pretty you are! And how soft and white your hands are!
It is what he used to call her when he was a child. A a sort of pet name, you know." "Why, Serena! how you talk! She never had any pet name, far's I ever heard. You might as well give a pet name to the Queen of Sheba. She " "Hush! it doesn't make any difference. Her name, Mrs. Black, was Lavinia. She was Mrs. Lavinia Dott, and her husband was James Dott, Daniel's father's brother.
"This work is unpublished and may never see the light, but briefly I may state that the Amharûn are a Semitic tribe allied to the Falashas and have been settled for many generations in this southern province of Abyssinia. Claiming descent from Menelek, son of Suleiman and the Queen of Sheba, they have always been regarded as unclean pariahs.
Thoughts like these had been swiftly coursing through her mind while dining, and therefore, when she joined Aun' Sheba in the kitchen, she was ready to employ every faculty, sharpened to the utmost, in the tasks before her.
Again Macdonald paced restlessly down the room and back. He moved with a long, easy, tireless stride. The man was one among ten thousand, dominant, virile, every ounce of him strong as tested steel. But he felt as if all his energy were caged. "Why don't you go?" the girl pleaded. "It's no use to stay." He stopped in front of her. "I'm going to marry you, Sheba.
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