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Updated: May 31, 2025
"'Lina pointed it out last night, but to me it seemed a spreading vein, nothing more. Hugh!" and Mrs. Worthington grasped his arm with a vehemence unusual to her accustomed quiet manner, "you seem to know Adah's later history. Do you know her earlier? Who is she? Where did she come from?"
And Anna listening to the sweet, silvery tones reading: "Let not your heart be troubled," felt her own sorrow grow less. "If you please," Adah said timidly, bending over the sweet face resting on the pillow, "if you please, may I say the 'Lord's Prayer' here with you?" Anna answered by grasping Adah's hand, and whispering to her: "Yes, say it, do."
I even lost my appetite didn't I, mother? and that's more than I've done for any lady since Ebenezer Holcomb cut me out of thy company at a picnic let me see, how many years ago is it, mother?" "Thee doesn't think I remember such foolishness, I hope," said the old lady; but with a rising color almost pretty as the blush I had seen so recently on Adah's face. Mr. Yocomb leaned back and laughed.
"You have the doctor's orders." "I would be glad if my wishes weighed a little with you," she said, appealingly. "There, Miss Warren, if you put it that way I'd drink gall and vinegar," and I gulped down the coffee. She vanished into Adah's room, saying, "You must take my word for it that I drink mine. I shall sip it while waiting on my patient."
Putting out her arms she lifted him carefully into her own bed, and in doing so brushed from her pillow the letters left for her. But it did not matter then, and for a full half hour she lay waiting for Adah's return.
The paroxysms of pain had returned with such severity that the poor infant's face became a livid purple, while Adah's tears dropped upon it like rain. Again the sympathetic women gathered around, again Dr.
Her husband beamed on her, and looked as if his cup was overflowing. Reuben's frank, boyish eyes often turned toward her in their simple devotion, while Zillah, who sat next to her, had many a whispered confidence to give. Adah's accent was gentle and her manner thoughtful.
The particulars of that interview between the mother and her daughter we cannot describe, as no one witnessed it save God; but Adah's face was radiant with happiness, and her soft, brown eyes beaming with joy when it was ended, and she went next to where Hugh was waiting for her.
At Adah's words Miss Warren's face suddenly became white and resolute. "You, at least, shall not despise me," she said to me in a low tone; and shutting her eyes she made a blind rush toward the cow. I had barely time to catch her, or she would have thrown herself on the horns of the startled animal that, with tail in air, careered away among the trees.
It was an awkward business, requiring a menial's service of that ladylike creature, and Anna would have been exceedingly perplexed had not Adah's good sense come to the rescue, prompting her to do things unasked in such a way that Anna was at once relieved from embarrassment, and felt that in Rose Markham she had found a treasure.
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