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When they had ended their meal, and Eppie had removed the remnants, the husband and wife went into the adjoining chamber and sat down by the bedside, where James presently joined them with a book in his hand. Eppie, having rested the fire in the kitchen, came into the parlour, and sat on the edge of a chair just inside the door.
That woman Marner found dead in the snow Eppie's mother that wretched woman was my wife: Eppie is my child." He paused, dreading the effect of his confession. But Nancy sat quite still, only that her eyes dropped and ceased to meet his. She was pale and quiet as a meditative statue, clasping her hands on her lap.
This was an opportunity not to be lost. She caught her little friend by the hand and drew her near. "Oh, Mrs. Jarvis!" she cried, grown quite eloquent now that she had found a subject so near her heart, "I'd rather have Eppie stay on the farm than anything else in the wide, wide world!" "Elizabeth!" cried her aunt in dismay, "what are you saying?" Mrs.
A slate fell from Sandy's house even as he held up the babe to the minister to receive a "droukin'" of water, and Eppie cried so vigorously that her shamed godmother had to rush with her to the vestry. Now things are not as they should be when an Auld Licht infant does not quietly sit out her first service.
And you'll have the best of mothers in my wife." Eppie did not come forward and curtsy as she had done before, but she held Silas's hand in hers and grasped it firmly. "Thank you, ma'am thank you, sir, for your offers they're very great and far above my wish. For I should have no delight in life any more if I was forced to go away from my father." In vain Nancy expostulated mildly.
If wee Eppie Whamond's birth had been deferred until the beginning of the week, or humility had shown more prominently among her mother's virtues, the kirk would have been saved a painful scandal, and Sandy Whamond might have retained his eldership. Yet it was a foolish but wifely pride in her husband's official position that turned Bell Dundas's head a wild ambition to beat all baptismal record.
Thereupon old Eppie resolved to go with something at the bottom of her bag to look like a good quantity of meal already gathered. The moment the door was closed behind her that was last Saturday she peeped into the bag. Not one grain of meal was to be discovered. That was why she passed you muttering to herself and looking so angry.
While he had been speaking, Eppie had quietly passed her arm behind Silas's head, and let her hand rest against it caressingly: she felt him trembling violently. He was silent for some moments when Mr. Cass had ended powerless under the conflict of emotions, all alike painful.
There's perhaps something to be given up on more sides than one. When your father opens his home to you, I think it's right you shouldn't turn your back on it." "I can't feel as I've got any father but one," said Eppie, impetuously, while the tears gathered.
Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitude which was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tones Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements; making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her.
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