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They were almost at the end of the fence by this, and the pickets were sharp and rather high, or he would have climbed them. Cynthia paused hesitatingly. "I'll come at two o'clock to-morrow," said he; "We're going on a picnic to-day, to Dalton's Bend, on the river. I wish I could get out of it." Just then there came a voice from the gateway. "Bob! Bob Worthington!" They both turned involuntarily.
It was because of this deep current which swept her away now and then from the shallows that she held Dalton's interest. He never knew in what mood he should find her, and it added spice to their friendship. "I didn't know you were going to-morrow." "Neither did I till this morning, but I am bored to death, Georgie." She did not look it.
"And Arthur Campbell has" said he, pausing in his rapid strides again, and standing close beside me "that should make some difference?" "So it does, and I give him the preference!" I said, rising from my seat, and extending my cold, nervous fingers towards him. "It is true that I have dwelt upon Ernest Dalton's memory with a glowing, girlish enthusiasm. I have thought of him by day and by night.
Her pulse beat high, her cheek burned, and her eye flashed with more than its usual fire and overpowering brilliancy, and, with the exception of one impression alone, all her thoughts were so rapid and indistinct as to resemble the careering clouds which fly in tumult and confusion along the troubled sky, with nothing stationary but the sun far above, and which, in this case, might be said to resemble the bright conviction of Dalton's love for her, that Mave's assurance had left behind it.
She was thoroughly and keenly human, and she did but follow her natural bent, without distortion and without selfishness, in seeking to give happiness to herself as well as to others. Brooke Dalton's offer of marriage placed a great temptation before her.
I You are bound for Condy Dalton's, then?" she added, inquiringly. "I am," said the other. "I think you must be a stranger in the country, otherwise I'd know your face," continued Nelly "but maybe you're a relation of theirs." "I am a stranger," said the other; "but no relation." "The Daltons," proceeded Nelly, "are daicent people, but hot and hasty, as the savin' is.
That the said Richard Henderson, Esq., his unworthy landlord, having been offered a still higher rent, from a miserable disciple, named Darby Skinadre, among others, unfeelingly availed himself of Dalton's res augusta and under play of his privileges as a landlord, levied an execution upon his property, auctioned him out, and expelled him from the farm; thus turning a respectable man and his family, hopeless and houseless, beggars upon the world, to endure misery and destitution.
The scandal which began to fasten upon his name after Sydney Campion had heard Brooke Dalton's story in the smoking-room of the Oligarchy was almost forgotten again, though it lurked in the memory of many a thoughtless retailer of gossip, ready to revive on the slightest provocation.
She couldn't But there had been that light in her eyes, that flame in her cheek that lack of fear Dalton's air of assurance, the way she had turned to him. "Oh, God," he said suddenly, out loud, "don't let Dalton have her." He was shaken by an emotion which bent his head to his knees. Nellie Custis pressed close against him and whined. "He shan't have her, Nellie. He shan't "
Although they had white hair, they were younger than he thought at first and much alike. It was as if they had faded prematurely from breathing too rarefied an atmosphere and shutting out rude but bracing blasts. Still they had a curious charm, and he had felt a hint of warmth in Mrs. Dalton's welcome that puzzled him. "We have been expecting you.
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