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Though he never said a word to flatter Alexa, spoke often in a way she did not at all like, persistently refused to enter into argument with her when most she desired it, yet his every tone, every movement toward her was full of respect And however she strove against the idea, she felt him her superior, and had indeed begun to wish that she had never shown herself at a disadvantage by the assumption of superiority.
Alexa rose, but resumed her seat, saying: "As the poem is a religious one, there can be no harm in handing it you on Sunday after church! that is," she added, meaningly, "if you will be there!" "Give it to Dawtie, if you please, ma'am," replied Andrew. "Ah!" rebuked Miss Fordyce, in a tone almost of rebuke.
Hardly any knew her real name; she was known but by her pet name Dawtie. Alexa, who wondered at times that she could not interest her in things she made her read, little knew how superior the girl's choice was to her own! Not knowing much of literature, what she liked was always of the best in its kind, and nothing without some best element could interest her at all.
"It is of consequence we should know the moment of his removal." "We shall know it in good time. The doctor called it an affair of weeks or months I forget. But you shall not be troubled, father. I will attend to him." "But I am troubled, Alexa! You do not know how little money I have!" Again he retired slowly, shut his door, locked it, and began to search the pocket-book.
"Perhaps." "That is, if you were sure I was not coming back." "I did not say so." "I can't make it out, Alexa! I used to think there could never be any misunderstanding between you and me! But something has crept in between us, and for the life of me I do not know what it is!"
She was a grown woman now, but the same loving child as before. She counted the brothers her superiors, just as they counted the laird and his daughter their superiors. But whereas Alexa claimed the homage, Dawtie yielded where was no thought of claiming it. The brothers regarded her as their sister.
He found certain banknotes, and made a discovery concerning its owner. With the help of her old woman, and noiselessly, while Crawford lay in a half slumber, Alexa continued making the chamber more comfortable.
George rose. He had laid the watch on the table, and seemed to have forgotten it. "Please take the watch with you," said Alexa. "Certainly, if you wish it!" he answered. "And my father's keys, too," she added. "Will you not be kind enough to take charge of them?" "I would rather not be accountable for anything under them. No; you must take the keys."
Right opinion, except it spring from obedience to the truth, is but so much rubbish on the golden floor of the temple." The peace of the night and its luminous earnestness were gleaming on Andrew's face, and Alexa, glancing up as he ceased, felt again the inroad of a sense of something in the man that was not in the other men she knew the spiritual shadow of a dweller in regions beyond her ken.
But I like better to be wi' Him here!" "An' ye may be sure He likes better to ha'e ye here!" rejoined Andrew. The next day Alexa set Dawtie to search the house yet again for the missing goblet. "It must be somewhere!" she said. "We are beset with an absolute contradiction: the thing can't be in the house! and it must be in the house!"
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