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We sat down together on the window-seat, and all at once she relaxed and her head fell on my shoulder, and she began weeping again. I held her, the alternating moods still running through me. "Hugh," she said at length, "how could you be so cruel? when you know I love you and would do anything for you." "I didn't mean to be cruel, Maude," I answered. "I know you didn't.

It was a pretty forlorn looking place at first glance, but doubtless the fact that the two beds were unmade, that the window-seat was empty of cushions and that the two slim chiffoniers and the desk-table were bare had a good deal to do with that first impression. The boys set their bags down and looked about them rather dejectedly. Finally,

At one a girl sat singing merrily with her back to the graveyard; and from another came the shrill tones of a scolding woman. Every here and there was a town garden full of sickly flowers, or a pile of crockery inside upon the window-seat.

When she went into the little drawing-room Audrey was sitting in the deep-cushioned window-seat with a book on her knee; and by the fact that it was open at the index, Barbara judged that she had not been reading too attentively. She showed no signs of agitation at the sight of her visitor, nor any eagerness to hear news of Miltoun.

Ruth sat at her work in the shadow formed by the old grey garden wall; Miss Benson and Sally the one in the parlour window-seat mending stockings, the other hard at work in her kitchen were both within talking distance, for it was weather for open doors and windows; but none of the three kept up any continued conversation; and in the intervals Ruth sang low a brooding song, such as she remembered her mother singing long ago.

Anthony shut the door carefully and came across to the settle by the window-seat. "Well," he said, "I have bad news for you, my friend. Will you forgive me? I have seen your father and had words with him." "Eh?" "I said nothing to you before," went on the other, sitting down beside him. "I knew you would not have it so, but I went to see for myself and to put a question or two.

Like a loitering pilgrim, it sparkled up to me in recognition as it glided along and bore away my little frets and fatigues on its bosom. When the work "went well," I sat in the window-seat, and let my fancies fly whither they would, downward to the sea, or upward to the hills that hid the mountain-cradle of the Merrimack.

He imagined the denouement, with a growing enjoyment of his vantage-point as the game advanced. "To-day, I am reversing the usual progress of history," said Shirley, as he sat down in the window-seat. "From second juvenility I am returning to the first. In other words, I wish to become your adoring suitor in the role of Montague Shirley."

"Readin' on the stair landin'. At least she was when I came up. She was in the window-seat." "Then wait until I take something into her room. I'll tell you when I am ready, and you may call her up." Lloyd hung over the banister in the upper hall until she heard a whispered "Ready;" then she called: "Come up heah, Elizabeth, mothah wants us a minute in yo' room." Mrs.

It's a pity," sighed Miss Priscilla, "that it was his right arm, a great pity!" And here she sighed again, and, catching herself, glanced up quickly at Bellew, and smiled to see how completely absorbed he was in contemplation of the silent figure in the window-seat. "But, after all, better a right arm than a leg," she pursued, "at least, I think so!" "Certainly!" murmured Bellew.