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Your heart is in t'other old church among the bats and foxes, where Aunt Vesty sits this minute." "No, my sorrow is there, Rhoda. I am trying to build a nest for my heart. We all must love." "William, I don't think a young man in love can remember so much history when he's sittin' in the dark by his gal." "Love among the ruins is always melancholy, Rhoda."
But the world is callous and cold, and I shall not repeat those tales. The world is callous and cold; but, as the shifty spectre at last pointed me, unwilling, homeward, he murmured, with tears in his eyes: "I never found sech an intellergent listener as you be not in the whole length and breadth of Californy." "Vesty 's married Gurd!
Wonnell, I would like to have a bunch of magnoleys to put on Miss Vesty's toilet every day. 'I'll git 'em fur you, Roxy, says I, 'becaze I allus thought you was a little beauty. Says she: 'I'd give most anything to surprise Miss Vesty with flowers every day, rale wild ones! 'Then, says I, 'Roxy, I'll git' em fur you for a kiss! An' she most a-blushed blood-red an' ran away."
I knew to what he referred, what gratitude was moving in his breast. "Wal, thar now, Cap'n Pharo Kobbe! ain't Vesty Kirtland worthy?" "Vesty!" said the captain, undismayed "Vesty 's an amazin' gal, but she ain't nowheres along o' major!" "Wal, I must say! I wonder whatever put you in such a takin' to major." He did not say.
"Did he say as he was still fond of you, or anything like that?" said the bold brother Fluke. "Nay! nay!" said Gurdon. "Vesty's married now: nor Vesty nor he would ever have word like that." It has not been a seven months, surely, since I heard the roar of those waters down in the Basin's Greater Bay!
"Do you mean to say that you will take the child back again back to that squalid home yes, for such it is, Vesty that you will deprive him of all that might be, and give him up to a fisherman's wretched life and dreary fate?" "Will you make a better man of him in the world than his father was?" said Vesty simply. "You know that I worship Gurdon Rafe's memory," cried Mrs.
"Some 's that way," he resumed; "and some 's sarssy." I looked up incredulously, but his fostering, abstracted smile was as serene as ever. "Vesty, neow, stood down there in the lane this mornin', and sarssed me for a good ten minits; sarssed me abeout not havin' no nails, and sarssed me abeout settin' on the log a spall; stood there and sarssed and charffed."
"Mother," said Uncle Benny, since he was sane now, "and" he mentioned a number of the living Basins, and went on, in the same tone "and Fluke and Gurd." Vesty looked at him with touching sorrow and despair, being troubled and not sane. "They played," he said, his hands moving with the recollection of the melody; "they played wonderful but sometimes it was an organ!" "Good!"
Now and then I made her put the question, but oftener I was kind and volunteered any information on this subject that I had been able to glean; and at the news of joy or success for him, how her eyes glowed! Basin pure and great, with no thought for the shadow of her own lot Vesty of the Basins.
Vesty 's gone and got married to Gurd!" said the children, big and joyful with news, on their way to school. Yes, that was what she had done! I leaned heavily for a moment where I stood. That was Vesty! Oh, child-madness! Sweet, lost child! Oh, pity of the world! and I crawling on with such a hurt; I did not think that should have wrung me so.
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