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Scroope, to have married so late!" she said to herself, as usual finding everyone wrong who in any way interfered with her wishes. John Derringham's letters only two a week she received from him were his usual masterpieces of style, and in them he employed his skill to say everything and nothing. She felt pleased as she read, and then resentful when she thought over them.
Twice a week alternately the French and German master from the Applewood Grammar School came to her, and she also learned to read music from the organist at the church, and then played to herself with no technique but much taste. And of all her masters, Nature and the fearless study of her night moods molded her soul the most. For the first few months after John Derringham's visit Mr.
The very last shred of glamour about her had long fallen from John Derringham's eyes, and indeed things seemed to him more bald than they really were. His proud spirit chafed from morning to night chafed hopelessly against the knowledge that his own action had bound him as no ordinary bond of an engagement could.
"Oh, my dear," he said, as he folded her to his heart in wild, worshiping passion, "God keep you always safe, here in my arms." And if she had known it, for the first time in his life there were tears in John Derringham's proud eyes. For he knew now he had found her the one woman with a soul.
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