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"I suggested we should hinder them," said Mr. Beebe. "They are worth it." Unlatching the gate, he sauntered over the triangular green to Cissie Villa. "Hullo!" he cried, shouting in at the open door, through which much squalor was visible. A grave voice replied, "Hullo!" "I've brought some one to see you." "I'll be down in a minute."
That is the long and short of all the arguments." "If there is no child?" Joan's fear prompted her to the question; she spoke it almost in a whisper. Miss Abercrombie paused in her act of unlatching the gate, for they had arrived at the cottage by now, to look up at her. "Ah, there you open wider fields," she assented, "only childless people are and must be the exceptions.
Oh! this suspense is horrible: haste, haste, some kind soul, to make the dread discovery! And he tore his hair away by handfulls. "Hark! somebody else unlatching shutters; it will be Sarah ha! she is tapping at the housekeeper's room yes, yes, and she will make it known, O terrible joy! A scream! it is Sarah's voice she has seen her dead, dead, dead; but is she indeed dead?"
The eldest daughter came to the back of her mother's chair. "Listen, mamma," she said; "or shall I look if it is papa?" "No indeed, my dear. It can't be. Walter!" for one of the boys was cautiously unlatching the door, "come away, I beg." Meanwhile all listened, so very extraordinary did it seem that anybody should come unannounced, so late, and on such a night.
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