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Ericson was thinking, among other things, how, if there should really be some assassin-plot, what a trouble and a scandal and even a serious danger he should have brought upon the Langleys, who were so kind and sweet to him. He was thinking of Sarrasin, and of the danger the gallant veteran was running for a cause which, after all, was no cause of his.
Lindsay, walking home with bowed back and bowed head from the college library, where he was privileged to sit after hours as long as he pleased over books too big to be comfortably carried home to his cottage. He had called to inquire after Ericson, whose acquaintance he had made in the library, and cultivated until almost any Friday evening Ericson was to be found seated by Mr.
Looking up from the paper with a sigh of wonder and delight there was the pale face of Ericson gazing at him from the bed! He had risen on one arm, looking like a dead man called to life against his will, who found the world he had left already stranger to him than the one into which he had but peeped. 'Yes, he murmured; 'I could say that once. It's all gone now. Our world is but our moods.
I'm to call up and be humble, and then bing! the least I can do is to propose and be led to the altar and teach a Sunday-school class at St. Orgul's for the rest of my life! Come hither, Hawk Ericson, let us hold council. Here's the way Gertie will dope it out, I guess.
Carl sighted back at Frazer's pew, hoping that he would miraculously be there to confront the dictator. The pew was empty as before. There was no one to protest against the ousting of Frazer for saying what he believed true. Then Carl was agitated to find that Carl Ericson, a back-yard boy, was going to rise and disturb all these learned people. He was frightened again.
Skinner, moneyless, friendless, a comparative stranger in the neighborhood, his people all residing in Phillips County, this State, and, with the prejudices of the Ericson people against him, was tried, convicted and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.
Carl knew he would be tempted to retort brutally. Then from the door of the dining-room whimpered the high voice of an excited child: "Oh, mamma, oh, Cousin Ruthie, nurse says Hawk Ericson is here! I want to see him!"
"There, Hilda, you grind the coffee and just put in an extra handful; I expect your Cousin Nils likes his strong," said Mrs. Ericson, as she went out to the shed. Nils turned to look at the little girl, who gripped the coffee grinder between her knees and ground so hard that her two braids bobbed and her face flushed under its broad spattering of freckles.
Ericson, ye're no half sic a philosopher as ye wad set up for. Hillo! Ericson laughed a weary laugh, and as the coach stopped in obedience to Robert's hail, he scrambled up behind.
Helena seems to have made up her mind already. Shall we go upstairs? 'My great deed was too great' held possession that day of the mind and heart of Helena Langley. London, eager for a lion, lionised Ericson.
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