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"Have with you then, my bold little elf," he added, taking the bridle of the horse on which Ben was still seated. "Or one moment more. You knew me, my lad are there any others like to do so?" "I had seen you, sir, at Bristol, and that is why I would not have you shew yourself in Elmwood. But my sister has never seen you, and the only neighbours who ever come in are the woodward and his wife.
"The same old shebang," he mumbled to himself, as he swayed around in the middle of the floor, "the same old shebang where Aaron Woodward and I parted company four years ago. He's took care of his money, and I've gone to the dogs," and he gave a yawn and sat down on top of a barrel. I was thoroughly surprised at his words.
Woodward unrolled the manuscript and began her task. 'Well, Linda was right, said Mrs. Woodward, 'it does begin with poetry. 'It's only a song, said Charley, apologetically 'and after all there is only one verse of that' and then Mrs. Woodward began 'Ladies and gentlemen, that is the name of Mr. Charles Tudor's new novel. 'Crinoline and Macassar! said Uncle Bat.
Such were the feelings which Mrs. Woodward felt herself unable to repress; but she could not refuse her consent to the marriage. After all, she had some slight twinge of conscience, some inward conviction that she was prejudiced in Harry's favour, as her daughter was in Alaric's.
She gave him one little glance, and then her eyes drooped. "I wanted to ask you something," she said, pulling a dead leaf to pieces. Her air of humility was charming. She hesitated a moment, but Woodward was too much astonished to make any reply. "Are you very mad?" she asked with bewitching inconsequence. "Why should I be mad, Miss Sis?
An instant later three large touring cars from the Fort swept up before the office of Woodward. Into them the armed men piled. "Hurry to the Del Mar bungalow," ordered the Lieutenant, jumping up with the driver of the first car. "We must see that nothing happens to Miss Dodge and Mr. Jameson."
'I do understand you, said he, 'and since you demand it, I will promise; and then they walked home side by side, without interchanging a single word. When they reached the house, Mrs. Woodward went to her room, and Charley found himself alone with Katie. 'I hope you find yourself better this evening, said he.
Another speaker, Judge George W. Woodward, sneeringly asked: "Whence came these excessive sensibilities that cannot bear a few slaves in a remote Territory until the white people establish a Constitution?" Another, Mr.
Woodward had always felt sufficiently confident that Alaric would push himself in the world, and she would have made no objection to him as a son-in- law had he been contented to take the second instead of the first of her flock.
Oh, mamma, I do love him so dearly. It is not now like Gertrude's love, or Linda's. I know that I can never be his wife. I did know before, that for many reasons I ought not to wish to be so; but now I know I never, never can be. Mrs. Woodward was past the power of speaking, and so Katie went on. 'But I do not love him the less for that reason; I think I love him the more.
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