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Vina shook her head. "Come back to New York with me to-day!" he said suddenly. "Our friends are there. You wouldn't trust anyone to pack the panels you'll need for work here.... Then we'll come back together for the long summer's work will you?" "Yes." There was a quick step below not the step of the man of flowers. Vina glanced at Cairns, who was smiling.

We are hungry for many things, but appear shameless, if we say so... Beth, has it ever occurred to you that we come I mean fair and normal women we come from a country where there are lots of little children ?" "The kingdom of heaven, you mean, Vina?" "Possibly that's it. And when we get here we miss them want them terribly. It's all through us like an abstraction.

She wanted to rush off to Asia somewhere, and bury herself alive, but pride kept her at home. As soon as she was able to move and think coherently, she sought her few friends again. Even her dearest, Vina Nettleton, had realized but a tithe of the tragedy. Beth Truba reached her studio again Monday noon.

"It's like a dream to me, too." "I didn't feel like working to-day," she said. "The routine appalled me, so I came over to look in upon Vina Nettleton. Her studio is above. Have you seen her 'Stations of the Cross'?" "No." "Her four years' task for the great Quebec cathedral?... You really must.

"It's not for us that happy time," Vina added hopelessly. "We are the sit-tight, hold-fast pilgrims. We belong to the clay-and-paint age " "It's something to see that " "Oh, how truly he sees it!" "Your Sailor-man, does he see that, too?" "Has he been seeing other things in your studio?" Vina asked hastily.

"I shall come back strong enough to meet him as one of the world's women or I shall stay away," she said. The Hatteras was warping into a New York slip the day before Christmas. Bedient was aboard. There was to be a little party for him, given by Cairns and Vina at the Smilax Club that night. The Cairns' had come over from Nantucket for the winter, and were living at the Club.

Didn' car' what 'come ob her, so yo' own mizzable self was safe!" exclaimed Vina in much disgust. George explained that this was the only way that it would have been utterly impossible for him to have got away with the child and promised that if ever a raid was made in that direction, he would join it and bring her away, at no matter what risk. In 1857 affairs began to be more settled in Kansas.

It was hard for her to keep her doubts about Bedient. Most of all that impressed her was Vina's sense of the mother's nearness to the man. She had thought of that at once, as she listened to his story. And he had not told Vina nor the Grey One about his mother... She sat down at her table and drew forth the opened but unread letter from Albany.

Balnea, vina, venus, corrumpunt corpora nostra, At faciunt vitam balnea, vina, venus! Wine, women, warmth, against our lives combine; But what is life without warmth, women, wine! I. Blood absorbs oxygene from the air, whence phosphoric acid changes its colour, gives out heat, and some phlogistic material, and acquires an ethereal spirit, which is dissipated in fibrous motion.

"I see, dear girl," Beth said softly, "why you could not open the door to anyone... Then the, Mission of Jesus was vicarious? I had about given up hope of comprehending that." "Yes. He lived and moved and bled and died and rose before the eyes of common men!" Vina exclaimed. "One has to bleed for such eyes!