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At first she could not remember or understand, and stared vacantly at them. "Annie, darling," said Miss Eulie, "don't you know me?" Then glad intelligence dawned in her face, and she reached out her arms, and each clasped the other as one might receive the dead back to life. But quickly she turned and asked, "Where is Mr. Gregory?" "Here, safe and sound," he said, joyously, "and Hunting, too.
"Do you feel better now?" Miss Eulie asked, gently. "I'm sure I don't know," he answered, wearily. "I have a numb, strange feeling." "Would you like to see Miss Walton?" "No, not now; I am satisfied to know she is well." "She wished me to tell you that Mr. Hunting had arrived." He turned away his face with a deep scowl, but said nothing.
Then I commenced rememberin' all that Miss Eulie and Miss Annie had read to me about Him, and all I'd heard, and I got my wife to read some, and my hopes grew every minute. I tell you what, Mr. Gregory, it was a queer crowd He often had around Him. I'd kinder felt at home among 'em, 'specially with that swearin' fisherman Peter.
Neither Miss Eulie nor Hunting understood why she became so quiet; but the latter, who was watching them closely, thought he detected some secret understanding. In his jealous egotism it could only mean what was adverse to himself, and he had an attack of something worse than sea-sickness.
But when he came to read of her relations with Hunting, and that this man was in charge of her property, he was in deep distress. He would have returned home immediately, but his wife's health would not permit his leaving her. He wrote to Miss Eulie a long letter of honest sympathy, urging her and Annie to come to him at Paris, saying that the change would be of great benefit to both.
"Annie, I don't see on what grounds you call Daddy Tuggar a good man," said Miss Eulie, emphatically. "Please understand me, aunty," said Annie, earnestly. "I did not say he was a Christian man, but merely a good man as the world goes; and I know I shall shock you when I say that I have more faith in him than in his praying and Scripture-quoting wife.
The ladies in Gregory's charge had to take their turn, and the boat was about full when Miss Eulie was lowered over the side. At that moment the increasing throng, with a deeper realization of danger, as the truth of their situation grew plainer, felt the first mad impulse of panic, and there was a rush toward the boat. Hunting felt the awful contagion.
Annie then retreated to the sitting-room, where Miss Eulie was placidly mending Susie's torn apron, and poured into her ears the story of her troubles. "To be sure to be sure," Aunt Eulie would answer, soothingly; "but then, Annie dear, it all won't make any difference a hundred years from now."
My wife says she's a 'great sinner, but she means she's a great saint. 'Twouldn't do for me to tell her she's a 'sinner. Then Miss Eulie says she's a 'great sinner, and between you and me that's the only fib I ever caught Miss Eulie in.
But when, in due time, there came a despatch from him announcing his safe arrival, she was greatly reassured. The light came back into her eyes and the color to her cheeks. "What kind of medicine have you been taking to-day?" asked her uncle, slyly. "She has been treated with electricity," Miss Eulie remarked, quietly.
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