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Updated: June 4, 2025
I had heard Alice and Adah talking in a general way about "closets" and a "new hall," and "hardwood floors" and and and things of that kind; I remembered having heard some discussion of a prospective "addition," and yes I now recalled that the front porch would have to be rebuilt.
"They ought to do so," trembled on Adah's lips, but she suppressed the words, and went on bandaging up the ankle, and handling it as carefully as if it had not belonged to a deserter. He did not feel pain now in his anxiety, as he asked: "Who is it, Adah? who's after me?" but he started when she replied, with downcast eyes and a flush upon her cheek: "Major Irving Stanley.
He would look in an instant, he said, to see if all were well, and carefully turning the knob he entered the chamber where the desolate Adah lay sleeping, her glossy brown hair falling like a veil about her sweet pale face, on which the tear stains still were visible.
Great emphasis he laid upon the Mrs. and catching it up at once 'Lina repeated, "Mrs. Hastings! So am I just as much." "Ad," and the eyes which shone so softly on poor Adah flashed with gleams of fire as Hugh said to his sister, "not another word against that girl if you wish to remain here longer. She has been unfortunate." "I guessed as much," sneeringly interrupted 'Lina.
The question brought into Adah's eyes a fearful look of anguish, but she did not answer, and the doctor spoke again. "Have I found Lily only to lose her?" Still there was no reply, and the doctor continued: "You are my wife, Adah. No power can undo that, save death, and you are my child's mother. For Willie's sake, oh, Adah, for Willie's sake, forgive."
He answered with a smile: "I thought once as you do, that I would not own my brother, but we get hardened to these things. I've never sold one yet." "But you will. You'll sell me Sam," and Adah, in her eagerness, grasped his hand. "I'll give him to you," Hugh said. "Call him, Miss Johnson." Alice obeyed, and Sam came hobbling in, listening in amazement to Hugh's question.
The group of rough-looking men gathered about the office did not suit his mood, and so he came on to the ladies' apartment, just as Adah knew he would. Pausing for a moment on the threshold, he looked hastily in, his glance falling upon the veiled figure sitting there so lonely and motionless.
Richards said, softly smoothing the brown tresses lying on her lap, and thinking even then that curls were more becoming to her daughter-in-law than braids had been, but wondering why, now she was in mourning, Adah had persisted in wearing them. "Pretty girl, pretty turls, is you tyin'?" and won by her distress, Willie drew near, and laid his baby hand upon the curls he thought so pretty.
My sister Adah. All the stars of heaven, The deep blue noon of night, lit by an orb Which looks a spirit, or a spirit's world The hues of twilight the sun's gorgeous coming His setting indescribable, which fills My eyes with pleasant tears as I behold Him sink, and feel my heart flow softly with him Along that western paradise of clouds The forest shade the green bough the bird's voice The vesper bird's, which seems to sing of love, And mingles with the song of cherubim, As the day closes over Eden's walls: All these are nothing, to my eyes and heart, Like Adah's face.
Adah, with her face composed to its meeting-house quiet, but softened and made more beautiful by passing shades of thought; still it seemed almost as young and childlike as that of Zillah. Miss Warren's profile was less round and full, but it was more finely chiselled, and was luminous with mind.
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