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They were in a deep, rutty lane by this time, a lane with banks rich in ferns and floral growth, and here came Blanche and Eva and the youngest boy, released from Latin grammar and Greek delectus at an earlier hour than usual.
That face in the greenish glass, looking tiredly back at her! She gave a little out-loud cry of vexation now as she thought of it, two hours later. "I must have looked to Eva like a battered bisque doll no wonder she couldn't place me!" she muttered crossly.
The prior sent the old Dominican to whom Eva is talking. He is said to be the most learned and eloquent member of the order. If I am right, he came here to appeal to your niece's conscience. At least his first question was for her, and you see how eagerly he is speaking. When yonder sick woman seemed to be drawing near her end she asked for the sacrament, which was administered by the Dominican.
The tears were streaming openly down her cheeks. "Oh, you poor girl, what have you been through?" she said. "What is it?" "I 'ain't got to go through anything more," said Eva, still with that rapt look over Amabel's little, fair head. "He's come back." "Eva Tenny!" "Yes, he has," Eva went on, with such an air of inexpressible triumph that it had almost a religious quality in it. "He has.
The younger and more thoughtless ones, for the time completely overcome, were sobbing, with their heads bowed upon their knees. "I know," said Eva, "you all love me." "Yes; oh, yes! indeed we do! Lord bless her!" was the involuntary answer of all. "Yes, I know you do!
And something must also attract him to her, for while she had the honour of being escorted up and down the hall by one of the handsome sons of the Burgrave von Zollern to the music of the march performed by the city pipers, Heinz Schorlin, it is true, did the same with his lady, but he looked away from her and at Eva whenever she passed him.
True, it would have been useless trouble to try to extort from the true and steadfast Biberli even a single word which, for his master's sake, it would have been wiser to withhold, yet he discussed matters patiently, and told her everything that he could communicate conscientiously. So, when Eva returned, she was accurately informed of all that had befallen and troubled the knight the day before.
And he couldn't be a Macgregor, anyhow, if he was first man in Canada." Eva laughed, and, forming her lips into a kiss, slyly impressed the same upon the air, as if it could reach Adam through some invisible pneumatic tube. He was not ashamed to make a return in kind; and, the boat being now within their bay, they went down to the sand to meet it.
It was for Eva that he had managed his property; it was for Eva that he had planned the disposal of his time; and, to do this and that for Eva, to buy, improve, alter, and arrange, or dispose something for her, had been so long his habit, that now she was gone, there seemed nothing to be thought of, and nothing to be done.
She spread out both hands in a deprecating manner and shrugged her shoulders exactly as a French woman might have done. "I am sure we like you, just as you are," said Eva Allen warmly. She had been rather impressed with Eleanor. "Do you see the time?" said Nora, suddenly pointing to the old-fashioned clock in the corner. "Half past ten! I must go this minute. Sister will be worried."
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