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Won by Adah's gentleness and purity, she came at last to love her almost as much as if she had been a younger sister. Adah was not a servant to her, but a companion, a friend, with whom she daily held familiar converse, learning from her much that was good, and prizing her more and more as the winter weeks went swiftly by.
"I never imagined that editors had such tender consciences," she said, with a low laugh, and she vanished into Adah's room. I knew she wouldn't stay long, and remained at the end of the hall, looking out of the window.
"Good-by," I said in a whisper, and wearily closed my eyes. Everything soon became very confused. I remembered Mr. Yocomb's helping me to my room. I saw Adah's intent, wistful look as I tried to thank her. Mrs. Yocomb's kind, motherly face changed into the features of my own mother, and then came a long blank. I seemed to waken as if from a long, troubled sleep.
The doctor had just come in, and it was his voice, heard for the first time, which sent the blood throbbing so madly through Adah's veins and made the sparks of fire dance before her eyes. She was not deceived the tones were too distinct, too full, too well remembered to be mistaken, and stretching out her hands in the dim darkness, she moaned faintly: "George!
The muslin curtains, done up by the laundress so carefully, lest they should drop to pieces, looked almost as good as new, and no one would have suspected that the pretty cornice had been made from odds and ends found by Adah in an ancient box up in the lumber-room. The white satin bows which looped the curtains back, were tied by Adah's hands.
A faint color stole into the matron's cheek, and she seemed pleased and relieved, but she remarked quietly: "Adah's young and inexperienced." Then she added, with a touch of motherly pride and solicitude, "She's good at heart, and I think is trying to do right." "She will make a noble woman, Mrs. Yocomb one that you may well be proud of, or I'm no judge of character," I said, with quiet emphasis.
There was an inward struggle, a momentary conflict, such as every Christian warrior has felt at times, and then the flush was gone from the white cheek, and her hand still lay on Adah's head, as she replied: "I do not understand why you question me thus, but I will answer just the same. I do like you very much, and you have always seemed to me much like an equal.
Miss Adah's youth and rural life have not given her much opportunity for observation and comparison, and yet few ladies on your Avenue have truer eyes for harmony in color than she." "Mr. Morton being the judge," said the banker, with a profound and smiling bow.
Richards, whom she had met in the parlor, she had, among other things concerning Snowdon, said to him, casually, as it seemed: "Anna has a waiting maid at last. You saw her, of course?" Somehow the doctor fancied Alice wished him to say yes, and as he had seen Adah's back, he replied at once: "Oh, yes, I saw her. Fine looking for a servant. Her little boy is splendid." Alice was satisfied.
"Not now, not yet," he continued, as Adah's eyes were bent upon that grave, "but by and by, will you do your husband's bidding be my wife?" "I will," and taking Willie's hand Adah put it with hers into the broad, warm palm which clasped them both, as Irving whispered: "Your child, darling, shall be mine, and never need he know that I am not his father." It was arranged that Alice should tell Mrs.
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