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Updated: May 1, 2025
They feel that to stop before a decisive result is reached would simply be provoking another war, after a period of dread such as they have lived through the last ten years; a large and increasing proportion of the letters you see are on black-bordered paper and this whole island is becoming a vast hospital and prisoners' camp all which, so far from bringing them to think of peace, urges them to renewed effort; and all the while the bitterness grows.
I looked on her forehead for the wreath of white flowers my mother used to wear, and thought of my father's letter with the prayer written on the black-bordered page. I said I would go, but my joy in going was gone. We were stopped in the doorway by Mrs. Waddy. Nothing would tempt her to surrender me. Mr.
Say, ever see any one resembling that photograph I dropped?" "So many come and go," said Ah Cum, shrugging. "Few stay more than a day. And there are other guides." "Uh-huh. Well, let's beat it to the hotel. I'm hungry." "This way, sir." "What's your name?" Ah Cum got out his black-bordered card and offered it. "Aw Come. That sounds kind of funny," said O'Higgins.
Wolf was going to California without her, and even Aunt Kate even Aunt Kate had scolded her, reminded her that the Melroses had always been kind to her! Norma's tears flowed fast, there seemed to be no end to the flood. She sopped them away with the black-bordered handkerchief, and tried walking about, and drinking cold water, but it was of no use.
The old regiment was represented at the sad and solemn little ceremony when the devoted husband, father and fellow soldier was laid at rest. Nor was Field a happier man when he rejoined from leave, and they all thought they knew why. Letters came, black-bordered, with Esther's superscription, sometimes, but only for Mrs. Blake or Mrs. Ray. There was never one for Field.
Ivan was not of these. Self-deception was never a vice of his; and, from this hour, the soul of Nathalie Féodoreff stood revealed to him more clearly than to herself. Once through the letter he sat motionless, the black-bordered sheet crushed tightly in his right hand. He had forgotten the paper on which her words to him were traced. Perhaps he had forgotten the words themselves.
She gave Lucien a handkerchief and forgot it. It was very fine, black-bordered, and it had three hand-worked letters in the corner F. B. A." "No," I said with truth enough, "she is not a friend of mine." F. B. A. was Fanny Armstrong, without a chance of doubt! With another warning to Mrs. Tate as to silence, we started back to Sunnyside.
Horace Carey's representative that Miss Jane Aydelot of Cloverdale was no longer living and much more as unnecessary to the business of the moment as a black-bordered envelope is unnecessary to the business of life. Then he opened a drawer in his small office safe and took out a bundle of letters. "Here's a copy of her will. That's to go to Miss Shirley to read.
And when Haldane saw her he suddenly smiled boyishly as if there could be such a thing as a problem over this scared, half-tearful, ridiculously pathetic, white-haired old woman with a black-bordered handkerchief in her shaking left hand. Before he considered it he had said gently, "Well, mother " The tears in her eyes welled over as she gasped in a whisper, "My boy!"
Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in those immovable inscriptions!
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