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Marion felt like saying that her father's fear of vanity might some day get him into trouble with his men, but she refrained from so expressing herself. On the occasion before us she recalled that conversation, for she realized that the strike was a result, in part, of the very misunderstanding that she had anticipated. Several clever leaders among the miners had spread the report about that Mr.
Far to the south and west he could make out the dim outline of Beaver Island, while over the trail he had come, mile upon mile, lay the glistening dunes. Somewhere between the white desert sand and that distant coast of the Mormon kingdom Marion was making her way back to bondage. Nathaniel had given up all hope of overtaking her now.
"No," replied Philippa; "but you do get the most wonderful cloud effects. Driving here this evening the sky was perfectly beautiful a great bank of clouds like mountains and soft fleecy ones touched with pink overhead." "What Dickie used to call the weeny woolly ones," said Marion softly. "Dear little boy, I wish he were here now.
"But He could not forgive my letting them die. I have been reading the New Testament, Mr. Vireo, 'Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, it were better for him that a millstone" She could not finish the quotation. "Yes, 'offend; turn aside out of the right away from Him; mislead. Hurt their souls, Marion." Marion gave a grasping look into his face.
Seeing that the girl was recovering, the other ladies judiciously left them, and Miles explained to the mother, while she applied smelling-salts to Marion, that he had come on purpose to meet them, hoping and expecting that they would be attracted to the concert, like all the rest of the world, though he had scarcely looked for so peculiar a meeting!
Things had not always been thus with him. In the early days of their married life Eustace Daintree and Marion his wife had had their home to themselves, and right well had they enjoyed it.
Take my advice, dear, and try to love your wife and win her confidence." "Love her try to love her!" he said. "I shall easily do that. But the other ?" He shook his head a little, though what he meant perhaps he did not know quite himself, and then followed Marion and Lali upstairs. Marion had tried to escape from Lali, but was told that she must stay; and the three met at the child's cot.
But from this imposing situation Marion soon and sensibly recalled him. "He wrote me," says Horry, "that the open field was our play that the enemy knew better how to defend forts and entrenched places than we did, and that if we attempted it, we should soon fall into their hands."
Another hour passed and the storm grew more violent. The lightning flashed across the sky and lit up the wreck from end to end. Then a blackness as of night followed. "We could not row ashore now, even if we had oars," observed Marion, as she listened to the howling of the wind. "You are right, Marion. My, how it does blow!"
Marion expelled them from his brigade. Subsequently, their actions became such, that he proclaimed their outlawry through the country. By one of these men he was challenged to single combat, but he treated the summons with deserved contempt. His composure remained unruffled by the circumstance. * Horry's MS., from which the several extracts preceding have been made. pp. 100-103.
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