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Updated: June 4, 2025
There was no one at Spring Bank more useful, and it was preposterous for Hugh to think of giving their best servant to Adah Hastings. Let her take care of her baby herself. She guessed it wouldn't hurt her. Anyway, they couldn't afford to keep a servant for her."
If Anna would have a maid, they did wish she would get one not quite so affected as Markham, one who did not try to attract attention by assuming the airs of a lady," and with this the secret was out. Adah was too pretty, too stylish, to suit the prim Eudora, who felt keenly how she must suffer by comparison with her sister's waiting maid.
Adah looked fixedly now at the craven doctor, who could not meet her glance, for well he remembered the dastardly part he had played in that scene, where his own child was screaming with pain, and he sat selfishly idle. "She don't know I was there, though," he thought, and that gave him some comfort. But Adah did know, and she meant he should know she did.
For a few moments I gazed through the window, with the same perfect content with which I had watched the foliage grow distinct in the moonlight the previous evening, and then I looked around the room. I started slightly as I encountered the deep blue eyes of Adah Yocomb fixed on me with an intent, eager wistfulness.
Send her out of the room, please," and nodding toward Adah, Ellen spoke beneath her breath. 'Lina comprehended her meaning, and turning to Adah said rather haughtily: "It's cool on the west end of the piazza. You may go and sit there a while." With a heightened color at being thus addressed before a stranger, Adah withdrew, and Ellen continued: "It's so strange.
They had delayed their breakfast until the doctor should come, and in the dining-room the table was laid with unusual care. Everything was in its place, and still Adah fluttered around it like a restless bird, lingering by what she knew was the doctor's chair, taking up his knife, examining his napkin ring, and wondering what he would think of the cheap bone rings used at Spring Bank.
Richards has not yet greeted us," Asenath said; and turning to her at once, Adah apologized for her seeming neglect, pressing both her and Eudora's hands more cordially than she would have done a few moments before. "Where is Anna?" she asked; and Mrs. Richards replied: "She's sick.
I could hardly do without you now." "And Willie? If I should die, or anything happen to me, would you care for Willie?" There was something very earnest in Adah's tone as she pleaded for her boy, and had Anna been at all suspicious, she must have guessed there was something wrong. As it was, she merely thought Adah tired and nervous.
Hugh repeated these words twice, aloud, his heart throbbing with the noble resolve, that the confidence she had placed in him by coming there, should not be abused, for he would be true to the trust, and care for the poor, little, half-crazed Adah, moaning so piteously beside him, and as he read the last line, saying eagerly: "He speaks of coming back.
Mother and I may add something in thy own manner, has inclined me to except present company. But I'll read thy paper since Emily Warren takes it, so thee'd better beware." I saw that Adah was regarding me with complacency, and seemed meditating many other questions.
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