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"Tell me what you know," said the soft and honeyed voice, ever sweeter, ever more soothing, more deadening to her senses. Leam's whole form drooped, yielded, submitted. In another moment she would have made full confession, when suddenly the harsh cry of a frightened bird near at hand broke up the sleepy harmonies and scattered the compelling charm.
When the warriors returned victorious from the field of blood, it was she who came out with songs sweeter than the music of the dove; and, when they brought no scalps, it was she who comforted them with stories of past victories, and dreams of those which were yet to be. Before she had seen the flowers bloom twice ten times, she had been by turns the wife of many warriors, for all loved her.
For three years our Sally has flitted about this establishment like I choose the simile advisedly like a ray of sunshine. For three years she has made life for us a brighter, sweeter thing. And now a sudden access of worldly wealth, happily synchronizing with her twenty-first birthday, is to remove her from our midst. From our midst, ladies and gentlemen, but not from our hearts.
"Then there were sighs, the deeper for suppression, And stolen glances, sweeter for the theft, And burning blushes, though for no transgression, Tremblings when met, and restlessness when left. All these are little preludes to possession, Of which young passion cannot be bereft, And merely tend to show how greatly love is Embarrassed, at first starting, with a novice."
Altogether, the situation was comfortable, and not without the touch of hope that is often sweeter than arrived blessings. One day, about a week after their piece of good luck, a maid brought a letter for Miss Lydia to her room. The postmark showed that it was from New York.
A family over which the father presides with tender dignity, and in which the mother moves with love's divinest ministry where the faces of innocent children are shining, while their voices make music sweeter than the morning songs of birds is admirable, and it is good in all those respects which make it admirable.
Dora, nothing loath, sat down, and straightway they were both in fairyland. He read industriously, stealing every now and then a glance at his pretty companion. She knew nothing of what he was reading, but his voice made sweeter music than she had ever heard before. At length the book was closed, and Ronald wondered what thoughts were running through his companion's simple, artless mind.
In the meanwhile, look at that dog there look Belzebub in the face, and tell me if you ever saw a sweeter beast never flew but at head in his life."
She loved him, and knew that she loved him. To hear his voice, to be in the same room with him, caused her a bitter kind of joy, a something that was sweeter than common pleasure, keener than common pain. His presence, were he ever so silent or angry, gave colour to her life, and to realise the dull blankness of a life without him seemed impossible.
He smiled tenderly upon her, but she did not know the meaning of that smile then as she knew a little later. "It is my Father's will," he said with a sweeter, graver smile. "Beth, do you not see how your talent could be used in the mission field?" "He does not know I am going to marry Clarence," she thought with a smile, "and he is going to map out a life work for a maiden lady."
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