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Watch them, especially in contact with their own sex, and you shall see now and then a trait of the wild animal. Grace Carden at this moment was any thing but dove-like; it was more like a falcon the way she clutched the bedclothes, and towered over that prostrate figure, and then, descending slowly nearer and nearer, plunged her eyes into those fixed and staring orbs of Jael Dence.
Jael Dence came up from the farm on Christmas afternoon, and almost the first word Grace spoke was to ask her if she knew whose picture that was in the dining-room. This vague description was enough for Jael.
And who do you dence with out at Colinton? 'It depends, said the first girl. 'Lest night, for instance, I was up to my neck in advocates. ... Priorsford's pretty genteel too. You know the really genteel by the way they say 'Good-bai. The rest of us who pride ourselves on not being provincial say you may have noticed 'Good-ba a."
He was not to come home to dinner that day, but stay at the works, till she sent for him. At six o'clock, Jael Dence came for him in a fly, and told him he was to go home with her. "All right," said he; "but how did you come there?" "She bade me come and see her again that day I brought the bust.
But I might as well try to dissect a storm, and write the gusts of a tempest, as to describe all the waves of passion in that fluctuating and agonized heart: the feelings and the agitation of a life were crowded into those few hours, during which she awaited the lover she had lost. At last, Jael Dence, though she was also much agitated and perplexed, decided on a course of action.
My gentle giant would say 'Sir' till I pretended to be affronted; the women and girls will bob me courtesies, and the men and white headed boys will take off their hats and pull their front hair to me. If a skilled workman wants to burst with vanity, let him settle in Cairnhope." "Martha Dence and I have had words, and what do you think it was about? I happened to let out my opinion of Mr. Raby.
It is the first time I have spoken of them since that awful night; it is the last I ever will speak of them. What they are, God, who made them, knows. Only I pray I may never hear them again, nor any friend of mine." Next morning Jael Dence came up to the hall, and almost the first question Grace asked her was, whether she had ever heard of the Gabriel hounds. Jael looked rather puzzled.
"His nerves were terribly shaken, but there were no bones broken. I said to myself, 'He must sleep or go mad, and he will not sleep in the town that has blown him up. I just drove the patient off to peace and pure air, and confided him to one of the best creatures in England Martha Dence." Jael uttered an exclamation of wonder, which drew attention to her and her glowing cheeks.
She forgave him with all her heart, for he was dead; she made excuses for him, for she loved him; but since his whole heart had not been hers, her pride and modesty rebelled against dying for him, and she resolved to live; she fought hard to live and get well. Finally, being a very woman, though a noble one, she hated Jael Dence. She was not alone in the world.
He took her to the hospital, and soon they stood beside a clean little bed, in which lay the white but still comely face of Jael Dence: her luxuriant hair was cut close, and her head bandaged; but for her majestic form, she looked a fair, dying boy. "Stand back," said Grace, "and let me speak to her." Then she leaned over Jael, where she lay. Gentle women are not all gentleness.
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