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Mother and Ester between them have turned the world upside down for me to-night. In case you are the happy man, I hope you are grateful?" "Extremely! Should be more so perhaps if people would be just to me in private, and not so alarmingly generous in public." "How bitter you are against Dr. Van Anden," Sadie said, watching the lowering brow and sarcastic curve of the lip, with curious eyes.
"What do you think of her?" whispered the old lady who acted as housekeeper, nurse and mother to the orphaned Florence. "I think I haven't seen her look better this great while," Ester answered, abruptly. "Well, I can't say as she looks any worse to me either; but Dr. Van Anden is in a fidget, and I suppose he knows what he's about."
Then, after a moment, she laughed mischievously. "You don't like Dr. Van Anden, Dr. Douglass?" "I! Oh, yes, I like him; the trouble is, he doesn't like me, for which he is not to blame, to be sure. Probably he can not help it. I have in some way succeeded in gaining his ill-will. Why do you think I am not one of his admirers?"
Van Anden drove suddenly from around the corner, and reined in his horses in front of the opposite gateway. They could hear his words distinctly. "Mr. Vane, let me advise you to avoid this evening breeze; it is blowing up strongly from the river." "Is Dr. Van Anden the old gentleman's nurse, or guardian, or what?" questioned Sadie's companion. "Physician," was her brief reply.
To-night she loitered strangely in the parlors, in the halls, on the stairs, talking aimlessly with any one who would stop; it was growing late. Mrs. Ried and the children had long ago departed. Dr. Van Anden had not yet returned from his evening round of calls. Every body in and about the house was quiet, ere Sadie, with slow, reluctant steps, finally ascended the stairs and sought her room.
You have sowed well and faithfully; be content with your harvest." I do not know what the pale, grave lips would have answered to this mocking spirit, for at that moment Dr. Van Anden and the black ponies whizzed around the corner, and halted before the gate. "Sadie," said the doctor, "are you in the mood for a ride? I have five miles to drive." "Dr.
God's angel had been present in that room, and in what a spirit had he found this watcher? Dr. Van Anden went quietly, promptly, from room to room, until every thing in the suddenly stricken household was as it should be; then he came to Ester: "I will go over home with you now," he said, speaking low and kindly. He seemed to under stand just how shocked she felt.
Van Anden had shown himself to be and she liked him; yes, and she would like him, in spite of a whole legion of envious doctors. A light step crossed the hall and entered the parlor. Sadie merely raised her eyes long enough to be certain that Dr. Douglass stood beside her, and continued her playing. He leaned over the piano and listened.
And Ester was so much asleep, that she did not know, at least did not realize, that she had dishonored her Master all that day. Of the same opinion concerning Florence was Ester, a few weeks later, when, one evening as she was hurrying past him, Dr. Van Anden detained her: "I want to see you a moment, Miss Ester." During these weeks Ester had been roused.
How was she to decide whether the gentle, patient life was the outgrowth of religion in her heart, or whether it was a natural sweetness of disposition and tenderness of feeling? Then there was Dr. Van Anden, an hour ago she would surely have said him, but now it was impossible; so as the silence, and the peculiar smile on Dr.
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