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Ailsa Mowbray's tone said far more than her mere words. Jessie had risen from her chair and crossed to her mother's side. She stood now with a hand resting on the elder woman's shoulder. And the priest, observing them as he advanced to the stove, and held his hands to the comforting warmth, was struck by the twin-like resemblance between them. Their beauty was remarkable.
"Now brace your feet, Chunky, and help all you can." This Stacy did gladly enough. "Don't drop me," he warned. "If somebody doesn't let go you'll be all right," was the comforting answer. Walter, being weaker than the others, was by this time well-nigh exhausted, but he held on with a determination that did him credit. At last they succeeded in pulling Ned and Chunky to the surface.
Despite the comforting assurance Jack had written me, just before his departure for France, that his discovery of my marriage, with the consequent blasting of the hope he had cherished for years, had not been the cause of his sailing, I knew he would never have left me if I had not been married.
Hamilton's cordial welcome, which she had found vastly comforting in these first days of feeling so much alone. On her desk was a note which she hastened to open. Mr. Hamilton has telephoned me that friends of ours are in town who will not have time to come out to us. So we are all to dine together in Boston to-night.
"Oh, I think you are a genius to think about it," I gasped, as I sat down on a very cruet Killarney branch and just as quickly sat up again, receiving comforting expressions of sympathy from across the bush, to which I paid no heed. "Those blasé city men will go crazy about it.
They had a forlorn, brutal, forsaken air. Tom's heart sunk when he saw them. He had been comforting himself with the thought of a cottage, rude, indeed, but one which he might make neat and quiet, and where he might have a shelf for his Bible, and a place to be alone out of his laboring hours.
"Still there could not have been a large body, or the carnage would have been more complete," he said, with some comforting assurance. "You had better come in for some breakfast," an officer remarked. "You look ghastly, and you are blood-stained." He glanced down at his garments. "Yes," he said, "I will take your advice. I want something hot to drink. And we must send some food over there."
More soaking with alcohol, and a resolution to examine the bed before entering it, in future. Then wait, and suffer, till all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood have crawled in under the bar, then slip out quickly, shut them in and sleep peacefully on the floor till morning. Meantime it is comforting to curse the tropics in occasional wakeful intervals.
"Why not? Why not?" its ticking said distinctly. The warmth was comforting. He sat down on the white deal table, knowing himself an intruder, but boldly facing the tall monster that guarded the deserted room and challenged him. "You haven't stopped," he answered in his beard. "Why not?"
Of course his wife could not come to want; that, after all, was the one clearly comforting thought. Her old servant would take good care of her, happen what might. He must taste of liberty again before sinking into the humdrum of married life.
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