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Then he laid her easily down, smoothed the pillow with a soft instinctive movement, poured out a glass of the toddy which he offered to his mother, and then, handing the waiter to the servant, leaned over his mother with a caressing movement and said: "You must look out, little mother. Too much excitement will not do for you. You must not let Miss Ainslie's unexpected call disturb you."
When they approached Miss Ainslie's he pointed out the brown house across from it, on the other side of the hill. "Yonder palatial mansion is my present lodging," he volunteered, "and I am a helpless fly in the web of the 'Widder' Pendleton." "Pendleton," repeated Ruth; "why, that's Joe's name." "It is," returned Winfield, concisely.
I believe the instances have been rare when a bear has been known to attack a person, although it has happened in some cases; but the immigrant has so often listened to exaggerated accounts regarding the wild animals of America, that those who settle in a new section of country find it difficult to get rid of their fears. On one occasion when the Sabbath meeting met at Mr. Ainslie's house, Mrs.
By this means he became very "obnoxious" to the "best people" of Horsford, and precipitated a catastrophe that might easily have been avoided had he been willing to enjoy his own good fortune, instead of clamoring about the collective rights of his race. Mollie Ainslie's third year of teacher's life was drawing near its close.
So it was Miss Ainslie who had sent the mysterious message to Aunt Jane. "You're not paying any attention to me," complained Winfield. "I suppose, when we're married, I'll have to write out what I want to say to you, and put it on file." "You're a goose," laughed Ruth. "We're going to Miss Ainslie's to-night for tea. Aren't we getting gay?" "Indeed we are!
A young man stopped in the middle of the road, looked at Miss Ainslie's house, and then at the brown one across the hill. From her position in the window, Ruth saw him plainly. He hesitated a moment, then went toward the brown house. She noted that he was a stranger there was no such topcoat in the village.
But their fatiguing journey was at length terminated; and they arrived safely at the bush settlement in R., where the friends of Mrs. Ainslie resided. That now thriving and prosperous settlement was then in its infancy, and possessed but few external attractions to the new comer; for at the period when Mrs. Ainslie's parents settled there it was an unbroken wilderness.
"Yes," she replied, "I like it." "You have a great many beautiful things." "Yes," she answered softly, "they were given to me by a a friend." "She must have had a great many," observed Ruth, admiring one of the rugs. A delicate pink suffused Miss Ainslie's face. "My friend," she said, with quiet dignity, "is a seafaring gentleman."
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