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How Ardea and Miss Euphrasia, going the round-about way from one house to the other to avoid the dew-wet grass of the lawns, came fairly within arm's-reach before he saw or heard them, remained a thing inexplicable. But when he looked up they were there, Miss Euphrasia straightening herself aloof in virtuous disapproval, and Ardea looking as if some one had suddenly shown her the head of Medusa.
And then they talk of unprecedented heat. It is the heat and the ferment that have got into life." "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish," said the quiet voice of Aunt Euphrasia. "How strange it is that men have never interpreted yet!" "Ah, well! I'm not sure about sins and judgments. I don't undertake to blame," said Mr. Sherrett.
Austen had not forgotten his promise to Euphrasia, and he had gone to Hanover Street many times since his sojourn at Mr. Jabe Jenney's. Usually these visits had taken place in the middle of the day, when Euphrasia, with gentle but determined insistence, had made him sit down before some morsel which she had prepared against his coming, and which he had not the heart to refuse.
If I could only talk to you, dear Miss Euphrasia, I think they would all go. But I will not trouble you any longer now; I am quite ashamed of the great packet this will make when it is folded up. But you told me to let you know all about myself, and I can't help minding such an injunction as that! "Yours gratefully and affectionately always, "SYLVIE ARGENTER."
It was long past the supper hour when he reached the house in Hanover Street; but Euphrasia, who many a time in days gone by had fared forth into the woods to find Sarah Austen, had his supper hot for him. Afterwards he lighted his pipe and went out into the darkness, and presently perceived a black figure seated meditatively on the granite doorstep. "Is that you, Judge?" said Austen.
Chiawassee Consolidated was out of blast "temporarily suspended," in the pleasant euphemism of the elder Farley; the force, clerical and manual, was discharged, with only Dyckman left in the deserted South Tredegar offices to answer questions; and the three Farleys, with Major Dabney, Ardea and Miss Euphrasia, were to spend the summer in Europe. Caleb wrote in some bitterness of spirit.
I don't know why everything should have happened as it did, just in these few days; except that this book was to be all printed by the twenty-third of April, and it all had to go in. That very afternoon there came a letter to Miss Euphrasia from Mr. Dakie Thayne. He had found Mr. Farron Saftleigh in Dubuque; he had pressed him close upon the matter of his transactions with Mrs.
"Well," answered Austen, "you might call them a new kind of caterpillar only they feed on corporations instead of trees." Euphrasia shook her head vigorously. "Go 'long," she exclaimed. "When you talk like that I never can follow you, Austen. If Hilary has any worries, I guess he brought 'em on himself. I never knew him to fail."
"Just because she has been kind we mustn't be deceived. It's h er nature to be kind." Euphrasia crossed the room swiftly, and seized his arm again. "She loves you, Austen," she cried; "she loves you. Do you think that I'd love her, that I'd plead for her, if she didn't?" Austen's breath came deeply. He disengaged himself, and went to the window. "No," he said, "you don't know. You can't know.
Would She have waited for such a victory as you demand? And does Austen Vane desire it? Don't you think that he would come to his father if he knew? And have you any right to keep the news from him? Have you any right to decide what their vengeance shall be?" Euphrasia had stood mute as she listened to these words which she had so little expected, but her eyes flashed and her breath came quickly.
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