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Of course he liked to make an impression on Verena; but what he mainly liked was to play her off upon the other girls, the daughters of fashion, with whom he danced at Papanti's. Such were the images that proceeded from Olive's rich moral consciousness.
Burrage's note; and then, as we know, she had vaguely entertained the conception, asking Verena whether she would make the visit if it were again to be pressed upon them. It had been pressed, certainly, and the terms of the problem were now so much sharper that they seemed cruel.
"Dearest, that's one of the fallacies I shall have to woo you from. Hear them, the senseless brutes!" The storm was now raging in the hall, and it deepened, to such a point that Verena turned to him in a supreme appeal. "I could soothe them with a word!" "Keep your soothing words for me you will have need of them all, in our coming time," Ransom said, laughing.
"Nor do I understand her. Once or twice I thought I would get a good doctor to see her, but I have now nearly resolved to leave it to time to restore her." "But the other girls can you understand the other girls, Aunt Sophy?" asked Verena. "Understand them, my dear? What do you mean?" "Oh, I don't mean the younger ones Adelaide and Lucy and the others. I mean Briar and Patty.
This idea, however, was unspoken, and Olive Chancellor's uttered words, as the carriage rolled on, were different. "Verena, I don't understand why he wrote to you." "He wrote to me because he likes me. Perhaps you'll say you don't understand why he likes me," the girl continued, laughing. "He liked me the first time he saw me." "Oh, that time!" Olive murmured. "And still more the second."
Her manner of repairing her inconsistency was altogether feminine: she wished to extract a certainty at the same time that she wished to deprecate a pledge, and she would have been delighted to put Verena into the enjoyment of that freedom which was so important for her by preventing her exercising it in a particular direction.
She was able to exhibit it to Verena with the greatest authority and accuracy, to lead her up and down, in and out, through all the darkest and most tortuous passages.
Farrinder; I like opposition," Verena exclaimed, with a happy smile. "That proves, as I say, how in spite of your expressions of horror you delight in the shock of battle. What do you say to Helen of Troy and the fearful carnage she excited? It is well known that the Empress of France was at the bottom of the last war in that country.
Verena went away. She wondered as she did so where Pauline was hiding herself. The others had all settled down to their various amusements and occupations. They were sorry for Pauline, but the pleasant time they were enjoying in the middle of this lovely summer's day was not to be despised, even if their sister was under punishment. But Verena herself could not rest. She went into the schoolroom.
He smiled, and said, 'Is no one here but you? 'No one. 'My own sweet wife, my Verena, as you have always been. We have been very happy together. 'Indeed we have, said she, a look of suffering crossing her face, as she thought of their unclouded happiness. 'It will not be so long before we meet again. 'A few months, perhaps' said Amabel, in a stifled voice, 'like your mother
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