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"For God's sake, Ettie, let it stand at that!" he cried. "Will you ruin your life and my own for the sake of this promise? Follow your heart, acushla! 'Tis a safer guide than any promise before you knew what it was that you were saying." He had seized Ettie's white hand between his own strong brown ones. "Say that you will be mine, and we will face it out together!" "Not here?" "Yes, here."
It was Martin Eckles' gold ring, set with the insignia in rubies, suspended in a loop of ribbon. A cold angry certitude formed in his being. What a criminal fool he had been! What a blind booby! His only remark, however, brought a puzzled expression to Ettie's troubled countenance. Calvin Stammark exclaimed, "Phebe Braley."
"For God's sake, Ettie, let it stand at that!" he cried. "Will you ruin your life and my own for the sake of this promise? Follow your heart, acushla! 'Tis a safer guide than any promise before you knew what it was that you were saying." He had seized Ettie's white hand between his own strong brown ones. "Say that you will be mine, and we will face it out together!" "Not here?" "Yes, here."
Those he saw and they were uniformly kind, even inviting were dull after Hannah. Instead he devoted himself to the equivalent, in his undertakings, of Ettie's quiet capability.
Ettie'd been at him for twenty-five years with twenty good reasons to quit, but no. And all of a sudden when Ettie's give up hope and not mentioned it for a couple of months he up and quits and won't even tell why. Ettie's worried says he's eating himself out of house and home and wants to sleep about twenty-four hours a day.
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