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She had intended to write Sally in the old affectionate, confidential strain, and ask all the questions that rose now and then in her thoughts of Monroe. But she had not written for months, and now now this. She grasped the news in the tear-stained sheets at a first glance. Her mother was dead. Martie repeated the words to herself with a stupid realization that she could not grasp their meaning.
Eyebright felt so sorry for him that she told Wealthy she was afraid she shouldn't enjoy herself; but bless her! no sooner were they fairly off, than she forgot Washington and every thing else, except the nice time they were having; and neither she nor any one beside noticed the very red and very tear-stained little face, pressed against the pane of the upper window of Mr.
Waitstill's heart melted, and she lifted Patty's tear-stained face to hers and kissed it. "Well, dear, I would not have had you do this for the world, but it is done, and Mark seems to have been as wise as a man can be when he does an unwise thing. You are married, and you love each other. That's the comforting thing to me." "We do," sobbed Patty.
A few minutes after the 'coon hunters had gone a big boy, and a little girl with a tear-stained face, who had come from a house just beyond the corn-field, reached the spot, to which they had been attracted by the firelight.
And suddenly she began to cry silently, harrowingly, as a man cries, her shoulders shaking, her face buried in her furs. "Fanny! Fanny girl!" He was horribly disturbed and contrite. He patted her arm, awkwardly. She shook free of his hand, childishly. "Don't cry, dear. I'm sorry. It's just that I care so much. It's just " She raised an angry, tear-stained face.
Camilla raised her tear-stained face and looked at her father bravely. 'I know, she said quietly. 'It may be. Mother and I don't deceive ourselves, though it is no use dwelling upon terrible possibilities. But even then, don't you see the difference? We should feel that we had done our best, and and that more was not God's will. 'Yes, said her father, 'I see how you mean.
The sight of Stephen and dead Snip irritated him; though a feeling of shame crept over him as he saw how tear-stained the boy's face was. 'Mr. Jones, said Stephen, 'I've something to say to you. 'Be sharp, then, replied the gamekeeper, 'and mind what you're about. I'll not take any impudence from a young rascal like you.
She crept away upstairs to her room. She was lying there across the bed when Avery swept in a splendid, transfigured Avery, flushed triumphant. Janet sat up, pallid, tear-stained, and looked at her. "Janet," said Avery, "I am going to marry Bruce Gordon next Wednesday night instead of Randall Burnley." Janet sprang forward and caught Avery's hand. "You must not," she cried wildly.
Theo's arms were tight round her restored brother's neck, and Alick rested his tear-stained cheek against his sister's. They were alone in the room, but, in truth, the boy would not have cared if all Northbourne had been looking on. 'Theo, he sobbed out presently, 'it was awful! 'Yes, dear, it must have been, whispered Theo sympathetically, tightening her arms. 'It was not what you expected?
She looked at me miserably from her tear-stained face, and then said, 'Men may think so, but women don't; a stain with them is ignoble whether made by one's self or another. No woman knowing my story would think me free from dishonor, and hold out her clean hands to me. 'Plenty, I contradicted. 'Maybe, she said humbly; 'but what would it mean?
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