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The whole difficulty of art consists in losing your own personality, so to speak, and finding it again transformed, and it is a difficulty which Miss Bretherton has never even understood. 'After this impression of spontaneity and natural force, I think what struck me most was the physical effect London has already exercised upon her in six weeks.
Whereupon the others protested that they would on no account be deprived of their share of the compliments, and Wallace especially laid it down that a man would be a poor creature who could not find smooth things to say upon any conceivable occasion to Isabel Bretherton. Besides, he saw her every day, and was in excellent practice. Forbes looked a little scornful, but at this point Mrs.
"Levi is wonderfully softened," she often thought; "it doesn't hurt him so much these days to praise instead of blame, and naturally folks respond. It's mostly on account of Sandy. Levi does so mortally hate to lose that when he wins out he thaws out!" The broad acres of Bretherton were rich and full of harvest as the old brother and sister waited that afternoon.
But it's a very good thing the other side are strong enough to keep you in order. The conversation flowed on vigorously Forbes guiding it, now here, now there, while Kendal presently turned away to talk in an undertone to Mrs. Stuart, who sat next him, at the farther corner of the table from Miss Bretherton. 'Edward has told you of my escapade, said Mrs. Stuart.
How was I ever to get free and to reverse that judgment of Mr. Kendal's? My very success stood in my way, How was 'Miss Bretherton' to put herself to school?" "But now," I said to her warmly, "you have got free; or, rather, you are on the way to freedom." 'She thought a little bit without speaking, her chin resting on her hand, her elbow on her knee.
It was so good of you, dear, to give me proof." Seven years passed, leaving their traces, and upon a certain afternoon in August Levi Markham and Matilda sat on the piazza of the Bretherton home and awaited the arrival of Mrs. Olive Treadwell. Old Bob, Sandy's collie, lay at Levi's feet.
"She's the girl whose face haunted that picture of the dogwood flowers, brother. She's the girl he wrote to just once, you remember, that time when we stopped in New York on our way from here to Bretherton. I guess she's called and called to him from these hills ever since he left, and now " "Well, 'Tilda?" "She's gone away and the call is stilled."
But you must come and meet the girl herself at my sister's next Friday. She will be there at afternoon tea. I told Agnes I should ask anybody I liked. I warned her you know her little weaknesses! that she had better be first in the field: a month hence, it will be impossible to get hold of Miss Bretherton at all.
I'm going to get them-all safe some day, sir. I'm going to have a right, big place to gather them in and teach them. No Hertford curse is going to kill what has called me!" So abstracted had Levi been, so distant in thought from the Bretherton study, and his own inward trouble, that this name, falling from Sandy's lips, shocked him beyond measure.
You could not say it was ill-natured; it was simply the bare truth of things put in the whimsical manner which is natural to Forbes. 'Miss Bretherton listened to and laughed at it all, finding her way through the crowd of unfamiliar names and allusions with a woman's cleverness, looking adorable all the time in a cloak of some brown velvet stuff, and a large hat also of brown velvet.
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