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If Marion had shed any tears overnight, say on account of a little lonesomeness because her friend was speeding away from her southward, there were no traces of them when she met her uncle at the breakfast-table, as bright and chatty as usual, and in as high spirits as one can maintain with the Rodick coffee. What a world of shifting scenes it is!
We have had much prosperity in the world, my wife; we have had neither death nor dishonour; we " "If this isn't dishonour, father, what is?" Marion flashed out. He answered calmly. "My daughter, it is a great misfortune, it will probably be a lifelong trial, but it is not necessarily dishonour." "You never can make a scandal less by trying to hide it," said Richard, backing up his father.
"Oh, I don't know rough, rather." Whereupon Marion laughed again. "That is the way some people discriminate," she whispered back. "You think because he wrote about rough people he must be rough; and when one writes about people of culture and elegance you think straightway that he is the personification of those ideas.
We had reposed ourselves but two days in the pleasant wilds of Snow's Island, before Marion, learning that a part of the enemy were in the neighborhood, desired me to take captains Clarke and Irwin, with fifty men, and try if I could not bring him a good account of them. We encamped the first night on the plantation of Mr. John Withers, where hearing that Mr.
"You must learn to love me," she said, "to look on me in the place of the mother you have lost." And Marion Arleigh for the first time in her life imagined to herself what a mother's love would be like. "What a strange idea to keep you so long at school!" said Lady Ridsdale. "We must do our best to atone for it."
When she told her husband at dinner of meeting Marion Reddon and of their new move, Jack seemed neither greatly surprised nor interested. "We must try to see them," he remarked vaguely. Perhaps, she thought, he did not care to recall those happier days in Europe. The truth was that the New York struggle specialized men intensely, removing to the vague background every one not directly in the path.
"Then we'll sit on the veranda a few minutes," said Marion. "Not long, though. I'm dreadfully sleepy." It was not long. They found they had little to say to each other, since the one subject of which both were thinking, each from a different point of view, was tacitly barred. And Hillyer soon saw that Marion was sorely in need of rest. "Go to bed now, dear girl!" he said presently.
"I believe that he does!" replied Neil, pacing back and forth in his agitation. "Captain Plum, if there is a man on this island who loves Marion with all of a father's devotion it is Obadiah Price, and yet he swears that he knows nothing of the terrible influence which has so suddenly enslaved her to the prophet!
THREE months more elapsed. Mrs. Marion was still an inmate of the family. Up to this time, not a word had come from her husband, and she had not been able to pay Mrs. Darlington a single dollar. Painfully did she feel her dependent situation, although she was treated with the utmost delicacy and consideration.
I have occupied my time for years back in gathering materials for a history of all the Irish rebellions there have ever been. My daughter Marion used to help me in this work, by filing and classifying the various slips of paper on which I made notes. Now that she has got married and cannot help me any more I have given up the idea of finishing my great work.
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