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He stopped and read it two or three times over. "But Daisy!" he said. "What, Capt. Drummond?" "What has this to do with what we were talking about?" "Would you please shut this up and put it away, first?" The Captain obeyed, and as he turned from the bookshelves Daisy took his hand again, and drew him, child-fashion, out of the house and through the shrubbery.
He looked at her in a scared way out of the corner of his eye, child-fashion, as though to make sure she was loyal and worthy of confidence, and then he said: "I invent 'em. I have written a treatise on guns of large caliber." "Really?" cried Zora, taken by surprise. She had not credited him with so serious a vocation. "Do tell me something about it." "Not now," he pleaded. "Some other time.
The mysterious, fathomless depression of youth, as of something akin to unknown primal depths of loneliness, sometimes laid its chill hand on her heart; but when Dosia "said her prayers," she got, child-fashion, very near to a Some One who brought her an intimate tender comfort of resurrection and of life.
He stopped, and read it two or three times over. "But Daisy!" he said. "What, Captain Drummond?" "What has this to do with what we were talking about?" "Would you please shut this up and put it away, first." The Captain obeyed, and as he turned from the bookshelves Daisy took his hand again, and drew him, child-fashion, out of the house and through the shrubbery.
I was standing before the silver cistern, I remember, washing away with my handkerchief an invisible stain from my hand, child-fashion, a loathsome impress, when I felt his audacious arms thrown suddenly around me, and his hot, polluting kisses on my face. "I love I love you!" he hissed in my ear, "and sooner or later I will possess you!"
She had struggled in a blind child-fashion to maintain a religion that would embrace her manifold life, but now it appeared that, after all, Ephraim endorsed the general view; his refusal to comply openly with it came of wilfulness, not unbelief. The stronghold of her peace was gone. "My papa never spoke to me about religion in that way, but I don't think he believed that."
They were not in gala dress, but only as on a summer afternoon spent in the open: the cavaliers in suits of provincial cut, which one could see had been spared all week, and the young girls in light, bright dresses with bouquets of wild flowers on their bodices. A few children were in the hall, too, and they danced together child-fashion, not even stopping with the music.
"Where are my kisses?" he asked softly. She clasped her hands behind her back, child-fashion, and looked up at him, a coquettish daring in her eyes. "Where did you put them last?" she demanded. "You ought to know!" "True I ought. But, as a matter of fact, I haven't the slightest idea. It depends altogether upon what girl you saw last." "If you think that of me " "What else can I think?
I sat up in the hammock, I stretched out my hands to receive the proffered greeting, and then remained silently, child-fashion, surveying the new-comer. "Kiss me," she said, "little Miriam. Have they not told you of me? I am Constance Glen soon to be your teacher."
"Nan is my sweetheart, and I shall marry her in about a year, so don't you get in the way, any of you," said Tommy, stoutly; for he and Nan had settled their future, child-fashion, and were to live in the willow, lower down a basket for food, and do other charmingly impossible things. Demi was quenched by the decision of Bangs, who took him by the arm and walked him off to get the ladies.
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