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And so on through the list of relatives and acquaintances. On these visits Elvira generally slept on a high feather bed in the best room, or in a little bedroom opening from the parlor, for not all the homes were as humble as Sapp's, and the oldest daughter of the family slept with her.
Wakefield was the less surprised at the sight of the young lady, having been somewhat prepared by her telegraphic inquiry about Allen, which he had not communicated to the Brownlows for fear of raising false expectations. There was a great consultation. Elvira was not in the least shy, and only wanted to be safely Mrs.
Then Elvira Gordon, meeting them at the door, told them that Lot was dead by his own hand, by a knife-thrust which crossed the old wound in his side; and she dwelt upon the reason for his deed: that he had been slowly dying from the disease of his lungs, and had not the courage to die by inches, which reason now all the town believed, since the doctor had said no word in contradiction, and never would, being mindful of his oath.
Smith saw through the evasion, but by shrewd reading of the sanctimonious face, saw also the inward suspicion as clearly as if Darling had spoken it. His tone and manner betrayed him no more. "The head of our sister Elvira is not always set firmly on her shoulders," he remarked, "but I am glad if the Lord has given her grace."
'That is a question, replied Elvira 'much easier for you to ask, than it will be for me to answer, but, as some of the events connected with the sad history of my presence here, may be found to be somewhat connected with your present mysterious situation, I will lose no time in making you acquainted with the story of my past life, that is, if you think you possess strength enough to listen to the recital, which as it is to me a painful theme, I shall make as brief as possible.
"Then I shan't have to sit on the shame-bench any more," she said with a beaming face, for a heavy trouble was removed from her heart. "You can ask Leonore if she wants to meet Elvira," said Mea, for Leonore had stepped up to them. But Loneli's message held no interest whatever for Leonore, who wished for no new acquaintances.
His boots were smeared to their very tops, and the new book that he started with had a black daub the size of your hand on the bright cover. He came late and, without a word of hesitation, marched to the desk, and remarked to the woman in charge: "Mam said you was to take care o' me!" Miss Elvira Stone was teaching the school that year.
"You are English?" she said, in his own language. "Yes, my lady," replied Derrick. Pepito's foot still hurt him, and, with extreme sorrow for himself, he turned over on his back. "He is still in pain," said Donna Elvira. "Will the señor oblige me by carrying him to the house?" Derrick picked up Pepito and followed the tall and stately figure up the drive. Presently they came in sight of the cása.
Casting his eyes casually upward he saw at an open window what it had been better that he had not seen the face and figure of Elvira Barwell. Their eyes met. With a sharp exclamation, like the cry of a startled bird, the lady sprang to her feet and thrust her body half out of the window, clutching the casing on each side. Arrested by the cry, the people in the street below looked up.
Elvira, the Sainted Princess tells how the daughter of King Wamba, who had become a Christian unknown to her father, by her prayers and tears caused his staff to blossom in one night, after he had determined that unless this miracle were worked by the God of the Christians she and her lover should be burned. One fault is to be found with these old stories as remembered and told by Mr.
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