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Without removing her pleading eyes from his face she asked gently, "Who told us to forgive as we would be forgiven? James, I shall be very unhappy if you don't grant this mother's prayer." He tried to turn away, but she caught his hand and held his eyes with hers. "Alida," he said in strong agitation, "you heard the vile, false words that Timothy Weeks said last night.
I read aloud to mother a great deal," and then there passed over her face an expression of deep pain. "What is it, Alida? Don't you feel well?" "Yes, oh, yes!" she replied hastily, and her pale face became crimson. It was another stab of memory recalling the many Sundays she had read to the man who had deceived her. "Shall I read?" she asked.
Watterly again bustled up with congratulations, and then said, "you must all come out now to a little supper, and also remember that it was gotten up in a hurry." The domestic stared at Alida and Holcroft, and then surmising what had taken place, was so excited that she could scarcely wait on the guests.
"It seems a pity you should do yourself needless injustice when you are willing to do what is right and kind by others." "It's all a terrible muddle, Alida. If God is so ready to forgive, how do you account for all the evil and suffering in the world?" "I don't account for it and can't. I'm only one of his little children; often an erring one, too.
Through the misty surgings of her brain she heard the faint boom of half-forgotten words words spoken by Alida Stair on the lawn at Pangbourne before Boyne and his wife had ever seen the house at Lyng, or had imagined that they might one day live there. "This was the man who spoke to me," she repeated. She looked again at Parvis.
She has just as good a right to judge and act for herself as any woman in the land, and she takes me, and I take her, with no sentimental lies to start with. Now let's get back to business. I rather think, since Harkins was an old acquaintance of mine, he'll come up here and marry us, don't you? Alida, wouldn't you rather be married here quietly than face a lot of strangers?
"You are a good deal cast down, Alida," he said, watching her closely. "I've reason to be. I don't see any light ahead at all." "Well, you know the old saying, 'It's darkest before day. I want you to come with me again. I think I've found a chance for you." She rose with alacrity and followed.
"Thou hast thought of me in thy prayers, Alida! It is an intercession that the stoutest needs, and which none but the fool derides." "And thou, Eudora! thou hast remembered him who quiets the waters!" said a deep voice, near the bending form of the counterfeit Seadrift. "I have." "'Tis well.
Alida felt that it would be useless to burden the unhappy child with misgivings as to the result, and her heart softened toward her as one who in her limited way had known the bitterness and dread which in that same almshouse had overwhelmed her own spirit. She could only say gently, "Well, wait till Mr. Holcroft comes, and then we'll see what he says."
In this and in other ways he showed kindly consideration, but his mind continually reverted to his work and outdoor plans with the preoccupation of one who finds that he can again give his thoughts to something from which they had been most reluctantly withdrawn. Thus Alida was left alone most of the time.
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