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For the sake of my love for you, Minnie, find me a cigarette, like a good girl! I am desolate." "There's no tobacco on the place," I said firmly, and went on with my sweeping. "When I was a boy," Mr. Thoburn remarked, looking out thoughtfully over the snow, "we made a sort of cigarette out of corn-silk. You don't happen to have any corn-silk about, do you, Minnie?" "No," I said shortly.
Ivory asked quietly. "Is he one of the family? I didn't know it," replied his mother absently. "Look at me, mother, straight in the eye; that's right: now listen, dear, to what I say." Mrs. Boynton's hair that had been in her youth like an aureole of corn-silk was now a strange yellow-white, and her blue eyes looked out from her pale face with a helpless appeal.
I wanted to hear it in cold syllables. I got the advertising man to his window. "'To decide a bet, says I, 'wasn't the man who had this ad. put in last night short and fat, with long black whiskers and a club-foot? "'He was not, says the man. 'He would measure about six feet by four and a half inches, with corn-silk hair, and dressed like the pansies of the conservatory.
Perhaps the very sound that awoke him was the one he wished to shun; at the next step it became more distinct, a child's voice singing some tuneless song; and directly a tiny apparition appeared before him, as if it had taken shape, with its wide, light eyes and corn-silk hair, from the most wan and watery of sunbeams.
I caught her to my heart and kissed the soft corn-silk hair, the deep melting eyes, the ripe red lips. By Heaven, I had fought for her and had won her! She was the gift of love, won in stark battle from the best fighter I had ever met. The mad Irish blood in me sang. After all I am not the son of a filibuster for nothing. The morning found me as good as new except for a dull ache in my shoulder.
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