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She had no lack of self-possession, and she told herself that she might hold her own with any girl in Memphis; still, she felt the superiority of the handsome, tall, proud Syrian, nor could she forget how, the day before yesterday, when Paula had been walking up and down the garden with Orion the chief officer of Memphis had exclaimed: "What a wonderfully handsome couple!"
"Oh, we hadn't been there more'n fifteen or twenty minutes 'fore Mrs. Burnham's man came for me an' took me to her house." Sharpman straightened up in his chair. His drag-net had brought up something at last. It might be of value to him and it might not be. "Ah!" he said, "so you spent a portion of yesterday afternoon at Mrs. Burnham's house, did you?" "Yes, sir, I did."
Why, the very first night you were here, she called out, 'Come in and see me on your way down! Don't you remember? And yesterday, when I wasn't dressed and she wanted you to go driving, after dinner! Don't you remember?" "Yes, but " Susan began. She could dismiss this morbid fancy with a few vigorous protests, with a hearty laugh.
This seemed greatly in contrast with their expressions to me yesterday; but such is the Indian. I knew it was of no use to push, so I patiently waited. About half-past six one of the Indians on the raft sprang to his feet, gave the word of starting, which is a peculiar kind of whoop, and he, with the few so inadequate to the work, determined to begin.
At length, in the most graceful manner, she thanked Lord Nelville, in Italian, for his obliging behaviour on the preceding day in picking up her crown. Oswald answered by expressing the admiration with which she inspired him, and gently complained of her not speaking to him upon this occasion in English: "Am I more an alien to you to-day," added he, "than I was yesterday?"
I took a drink out of Ananias' well, and singularly enough, the water was just as fresh as if the well had been dug yesterday.
The impresor had been ravished at the sight of a beautiful girl a mere muchacha yet of a beauty that deprived the senses this angel clearly the daughter of his friend! Here was the old miracle of the orange in full fruition and the lovely fragrant blossom all on the same tree at the fonda. And this had been kept from him! "Yes, it was but a thing of yesterday," said the senora, obviously pleased.
And she paused for an instant, collecting as it were her mind with an expression almost of pain upon her countenance. "These changes of life are so strange and rapid that it seems to me I can scarcely meet them. You are Lord Marney's brother; it was but yesterday only but yesterday I learnt it. I thought then I had lost your friendship, and now you speak of love! "Love of me!
A wild, unsettled morning. She has just risen better and calmer, now that the time has come, than she was yesterday. Ten o'clock. She is dressed. We have kissed each other we have promised each other not to lose courage. I am away for a moment in my own room.
I pass over those things in which you might be allowed to glory; I will mention a circumstance which of itself ought to fill you with shame and remorse. Yesterday you separated from the enemy on equal terms. What alteration has last night, what on this day, produced? Have your forces been diminished by them, or theirs increased?
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