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"My mother was indeed French, but my father was an American soldier," she said rapidly, as if eager to have the explanation ended. "You never asked my name, save that one night when we first met amid the sand, and then I gave you only that by which I have been most widely known. None except my father ever called me Elsa; to all others I was always Toinette. But I am Roger Matherson's only child."
"Why, you have everything in the world; you can go anywhere, do anything, have the people about you that you want. You, lonely? I don't understand you." "Well, I'll put it another way. Did you ever want something so hard that it hurt, and couldn't get it?" "Yes, I wanted my father back after he died," said Code simply. "And I wanted Jim after he died," added Elsa.
But the cause for that was evident, and the very fact of her tears had been a relief to him. Now, apparently without rime or reason, Elsa Mallaby was weeping. The sight went to his heart as might the scream of a child in pain. He wondered with a panicky feeling whether he had hurt her in any way. "I say, Elsa," he cried, "what's the matter? Don't do that.
All that afternoon Ulrich communed with himself, tried to understand himself, and could not. For Elsa and Margot and Hedwig were not the only ones by a long way. What girl in the village did he not love, if it came to that: Liesel, who worked so hard and lived so poorly, bullied by her cross-grained granddam.
The crew were about on a night like that, and at any moment Elsa Lee might avail herself of the dummy hand, as she sometimes did, and run up for a breath of air or a glimpse of the sea. "Just now, Mrs. Johns;" I said, "I am one of the crew of the Ella, and if I am seen here " "Oh, fudge!" she retorted impatiently. "My reputation isn't going to be hurt, and the man's never is.
While his wife Lysbeth and Elsa were attending to Adrian, Dirk and his son, Foy, for the Pastor Arentz had gone, sat upstairs talking in the sitting-room, that same balconied chamber in which once Dirk had been refused while Montalvo hid behind the curtain. Dirk was much disturbed, for when his wrath had passed he was a tender-hearted man, and his stepson's plight distressed him greatly.
Ellison." "Well, Martha?" "I beg your pardon, Elsa; but the stranger terrifies me. He is something uncanny." "Nonsense! You've been reading tales about Yogii." "It is a terrible country." "It is the East, Martha, the East. Here a man may wear a dress-suit and a bowler without offending any one." "And a woman may talk to any one she pleases." "Is that a criticism?"
Gard said good-by, too, to the old linden by his window. How one can miss a tree! And Elsa! He flattered himself she looked a mite regretful that he was going. She was starting for her class when she joined the topsy-turvy group by the gate and waved her creamy hand.
Who preserved you in the torture den, Foy van Goorl? What hand was it that held your life and honour safe when you sojourned among devils in the Red Mill yonder and kept your head above the waters of the flood, Elsa Brant? You know well, and I, Martha, tell you that this same hand shall hold you safe until the end.
Elsa nodded and answered, "But if aught happens to Martin the sword may be lost." Martha shrugged her shoulders. "Then the treasure will be lost also, that is if I am gone. It is as God wills; but at least in name you are the heiress, and you should know where to find its secret, which may serve you or your country in good stead in time to come.
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