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At any rate, something or other loosened the flood-gates of her emotion, and before Jimmy could possibly escape from her vicinity she had wheeled round in her chair, thrown her arms about him, and buried her tear-stained face against his waist-coat.
It seems to me he is trying 'to cool off, as we girls in the bindery used to say." Dorothy tiptoed over to the window as she heard the front door slam after him, and if he had looked back he would have seen a very defiant though tear-stained face peering earnestly after him from behind the lace curtains.
From the cemetery he went to the undertaker's, and left an order; thence to the telegraph office, from which he sent a message to his former partner in New York; and thence to the Treadwells'. Thirty-seven Miss Laura came forward with outstretched hands and tear-stained eyes to greet him. "Henry," she exclaimed, "I am shocked and sorry, I cannot tell you how much!
'Madam, said I, 'a gentleman. 'That's what I mean a gentleman, she exclaimed. 'And he and that HE isn't. O, how shall I dare meet father! And disclosing to me her tear-stained face, and opening her arms with a tragic gesture: 'And I am quite disgraced before all the young ladies, my school-companions! she added. 'O, not so bad as that! I cried.
He was at her side in a moment, tenderly bending over her. "Eh, Maggie, but I am sorry, lass " She wrenched away from beneath his hands. "I hate yo'," she cried passionately. He gently removed her hands from before her tear-stained face. "I was nob'but laffin', Maggie," he pleaded; "say yo' forgie me." "I don't," she cried, struggling. "I think yo're the hatefullest lad as iver lived."
For a long while they sat thus. At last the woman raised her head, and looked with tear-stained eyes into his. "Olof, do not be harsh with me. I had to come had to ease my heart of all that has weighed it down these years past. I have suffered so. And when I see you now, I understand you must have your own sorrows to bear. Forgive me all the cruel things I said.
Let me try again." And there she was, with her cheeks all flushed and tear-stained, her hair in loose, damp curls about her temples, and her frock all rumpled and crushed in her mother's arms; and her mother was saying, "Bad dreams, sweetheart? You have had a fine, long nap; but it is your turn next, and I have had to wake you. Come, dear!
Old Hagar now placed in Madeline's hands the package, which was found to contain her mother's most valuable jewels, and the tear-stained journal, which the girl seated herself to peruse, with sorrowful awe.
He muttered something. "You will be in haste?" Colonel John continued. He saw that the sweat stood in beads on the man's brow, and the lad's face was tear-stained. "I've far to go," the man muttered. He spoke with a slight foreign accent, but in the west of Ireland this was common. "The top of the morning to you."
He thought he'd lost me when the money went ... his money in the California Safe Deposit Company." Frank took a seat beside her on the couch, whose flaming, joyous colors seemed a mockery just then. "Aleta," he said, "I wish I could help you. I wish I knew how, but I don't." She lifted her tear-stained eyes to his with a curious bitterness. "No ... you don't. But thank you.
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