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In short, Silliston gave its approval to this particular experiment of Augusta Maturin. As for Mrs. Maturin herself, her feeling was one of controlled pride not unmixed with concern, always conscious as she was of the hidden element of tragedy in the play she had so lovingly staged.
Afterwards he had left Silliston for a lumber camp on a remote river in northern Maine, abruptly to reappear, on a mild afternoon late in April, in Augusta Maturin's garden. The crocuses and tulips were in bloom, and his friend, in a gardening apron, was on her knees, trowel in hand, assisting a hired man to set out marigolds and snapdragons.
She was striving to grasp the momentous and unlooked-for fact of her friend's unchanged attitude. Then she asked: "Mrs. Maturin, do you believe in God?" Augusta Maturin was startled by the question. "I like to think of Him as light, Janet, and that we are plants seeking to grow toward Him no matter from what dark crevice we may spring.
She swore to me that if she died she would send to me the other half of that necklace which I wear." "I have heard of none," said Irene, "but you will know, Olaf, that I have other business to attend to just now than such death-bed gossip. These things do not come to my ears." I looked at Irene and Irene looked at me. "Augusta," I said, "I do not believe your story.
With some of them ambition was superior to principle; they recanted their principles, and, in the ranks of their former opponents, reaped a harvest of political distinction. Prominent among these was John Forsyth. He had delivered a Fourth of July oration at Augusta, distinguished for great ability and high Federal doctrines.
"MY DEAR AUGUSTA, Write another note like the last, when you have time, as I hope I have turned over a new leaf, and I should like you to give me some hope of being received. "... I got your very kind letter to-day, and am very much obliged to you for it. I have not had time to look out the texts, but will do so to-morrow.
Doubtless he would reprove us all, who, he holds, talk too much, being, as we all have heard, a man of stern morality, who has no tenderness for human foibles. By the way, General Olaf, a rumour has reached us that you have forsaken doubt, and become a Christian. Is this true?" "It is true, Augusta." "Then if as a Pagan you were a man of iron, what will you be as a Christian, we wonder?
Sherman was now in possession of Savannah, but an interior line of rail by Columbus, Macon, and Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina, was open. Mobile was not immediately threatened, and was of inferior importance as compared with the safety of Lee's army at Petersburg. Unless a force could be interposed between Sherman and Lee's rear, the game would be over when the former moved.
But two days ago it mortified; last night she died and this morning I myself saw her buried with honour." "How did you see her buried, you who are not welcome among the Northmen?" I asked. "By my order, as her blood was high, she was laid in the palace graveyard, Olaf." "Did she leave me no word or token, Augusta?
Augusta, familiarised as she was herself with the companionship of this beauteous clay cold Terror, had forgotten that, suddenly and without warning to bring the living into the presence of the dead, is not the wisest or the kindest thing to do. For, to the living, more especially to the young, the sight of death is horrible. It is such a fearsome comment on their health and strength.
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