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She stands like a statue where he has left her he turns a corner, the last sound of his footsteps dies away, and Edith feels that he has gone out of her life out of the whole world. Miss Nellie Seton came early next morning to see her friend, Mr. Charley Stuart, off.
Here Florian shook his head mournfully. "I understood you to acknowledge that you had seen the gates destroyed." "I never said as much to you," said the boy. "But you did to me," said Edith. "If a fellow says a word to you, it is repeated to all the world. I never would have you joined with me in a secret. You are a great deal worse than , well, those fellows that you abuse me about.
"Your Cousin Eleanor has invited you to go this winter with Edith and Mary to Sutcliffe." Sutcliffe! No need to tell Honora what Sutcliffe was her cousins had talked of little else during the past winter; and shown, if the truth be told, just a little commiseration for Honora.
He had not been called upon for his consent, for Edith had never yielded. She, too, had said that it was impossible. "If Ada would have suited, it might have been possible, but not between Yorke and me." They had both come now to call him by his Christian name; and they to him were Ada and Edith; but with their father he had never quite reached the familiarity of a Christian name. Mr.
As she heard the words Edith Morriston stood for a moment as though transfixed, and then staggered back grasping at a tombstone for support. Gifford took a quick step forward, but before he could be of help she had recovered from the shock, and motioning him back, was looking at him with incredulous eyes. "You were there?" she repeated, with more suspicion now than unbelief.
The servants all came in, and Mrs. MacLain read a chapter from John, and gave out a hymn, which everybody sang. It was the beautiful hymn, "Dear refuge of my weary soul, On Thee, when sorrows rise, On Thee, when storms of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies." It was a great comfort to Edith to sing this, for it was one of her mamma's favorites.
"He has promised his priest that he will not tell," said Edith, making what excuse she could for her brother. "He has not promised his priest," said Mr. Jones. "He has made no promise to Father Malachi, of Ballintubber. If he has promised at all it is to that pestilent fellow at Headford.
Edith tells her how long she has been in New York, of how only an hour ago she chanced upon Charley, and found out their whereabouts. And now, if Aunt Chatty pleases, she is going to take off her bonnet and wait until Beatrix comes home. "Of course you will wait! take off your things right away. Dear me! and it is really our Edith; won't Trix be surprised and glad.
Edith was a famous castle-builder, and forgetting that this half-sister, were she living, would be much older than herself, she thought of her only as a school-girl, whose home should be at Collingwood, and on whom MRS. RICHARD HARRINGTON would lavish so much affection, wasting on her the surplus love which, perhaps, could not be given to the father husband.
And now Mamma was dressed, and Edith was in a hideously unbecoming green and silver gown, and the five bridesmaids were duly hatted and frocked in green and silver, and she was dressed, too, realizing that her new corsets were a trifle small, and her lace veil too heavy.
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