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Barrett's little Bessie is very ill with fever," answered Marian. Then, catching his anxious look, she hastened to add, "It is nothing infectious some kind of a slow, sapping variety. There is no danger, Esterbrook." "I was not afraid for myself," he replied quietly. "My alarm was for you. You are too precious to me, Marian, for me to permit you to risk health and life, if it were dangerous.
I know that Esterbrook Elliott will be true to the letter of his vows to me, no matter what it may cost him. But I want no pallid shadow of the love that belongs to another. The hour of abdication is at hand, I fear. And what will be left for throneless Vashti then?" Esterbrook Elliott, walking home through the mocking calm of the night, fought a hard battle with himself.
For a second the diamond flashed in the moonlight; then, with a tiny splash, it fell among the ripples. Esterbrook turned his face to the Cove, lying dark and silent in the curve between the crescent headlands. A solitary light glimmered from the low eaves of the Barrett cottage. Tomorrow, was his unspoken thought, I will be free; to go back to Magdalen. An Invitation Given on Impulse
"Nobody ever opposed Eudora Yates except her own self," replied Abby. "Her father was dead, and Eudora's ma thought the sun rose and set in her. She would never have opposed her if she had wanted to marry a foreign duke or the old Harry himself." "I remember it perfectly," said Mrs. Joseph Glynn. "So do I," said Julia Esterbrook. "Don't see why you shouldn't.
This afternoon, under the acacias, they had been planning about their wedding. There was no one to consult but themselves. They were to be married early in September and then go abroad. Esterbrook mapped out the details of their bridal tour with careful thoughtfulness. They would visit all the old-world places that Marian wished to see. Afterwards they would come back home.
It is not too late to remedy it. You will not refuse my request, Esterbrook? You will set me free?" "Good heavens, Marian!" he said hoarsely. "I cannot realize that you are in earnest. Have you ceased to care for me?" The rigidly locked hands were clasped a little tighter. "No I shall always care for you as my friend if you will let me.
Opposite Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the feebly effervescent news of Wellwood. This afternoon three ladies were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs. John Bates, and Mrs.
A girl, who had been sitting unnoticed with her back to the visitors, at the head of the child's cot in one corner of the room, stood up and slowly turned around. Marian and Esterbrook Elliott both started with involuntary surprise. Esterbrook caught his breath like a man suddenly awakened from sleep.
If I had been as resolute as I ought to have been if I had sent you away the second time as I did the first this would not have come to pass. I have been weak too, and I deserve to atone for my weakness by suffering. There is only one path open to us. Esterbrook, good-bye." Her voice quivered with an uncontrollable spasm of pain, but the misty, mournful eyes did not swerve from his.
I have my own living to earn, you know. I am very poor. Uncle and Aunt are very kind, but I cannot consent to burden them any longer than I can help." A sigh that was almost a moan broke from Esterbrook Elliott's lips. "You must not go away, Magdalen. You must stay here with me!" "You forget yourself," she said proudly. "How dare you speak to me so? Have you forgotten Miss Lesley?
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