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To do this, it was necessary that he should have listeners: Evan was not enough, and was besides unsympathetic; he had not responded to Jack's cordial assurances of his friendship 'in spite of anything, uttered before they came into the field. Heat and lustre were now poured from the sky, on whose soft blue a fleet of clouds sailed heavily. Nick Frim was very wonderful, no doubt.
"No, no, sure enough; no storm was there. But it is plain to see what has killed him!" This was Evan Peters, the quarryman, and I glanced at him very suspiciously. "Iss, sure, plain enough," said another; and then they all broke into Welsh, with much gesticulation; and "e-ah, e-ah," and "otty, otty," and "hanool, hanool," were the sounds they made at least to an ignorant English ear.
You will and must pardon my coming that's my first thought, sensitive darling that you are! She kissed him fondly. 'Juliana Bonner is in town, staying with us! 'Is that your news? asked Evan, pressing her against his breast. 'No, dear love but still! You have no idea what her fortune Mrs. Bonner has died and left her but I mustn't tell you. Oh, my darling! how she admires you!
His countenance was sun-burnt and open, and he was dressed in a countryman's holiday suit. When Evan met his eyes, they showed perplexity. Evan felt he was being examined from head to heel, but by one unaccustomed to his part, and without the courage to decide what he ought consequently to do while a doubt remained, though his inspection was verging towards a certainty in his mind.
Because it was so poor a gift, and so unworthy of him. And why did he insist? Because in honour she was bound to surrender it. And why did she hesitate still? Let her answer. 'Oh, Evan! I would give you anything but that; and if you are going away, I should beg so much to keep it. He must have been in a singular state not to see her heart in the refusal, as was she not to see his in the request.
'She has told me something, dear, but I don't know what it is. That you are going to expose us? What further exposure do we need? I'm sure, Van, my pride what I had is gone. I have none left! Evan kissed her brows warmly. An explanation, full of the Countess's passionate outcries of justification, necessity, and innocence in higher than fleshly eyes, was given, and then the three were silent.
Richard has built a queer-looking snow man with red knobs all over his chest and stomach, while Ian has achieved several most curious looking things with carrot horns, whatever are they? Father has just driven in, and is laughing heartily, and Evan is waving to me. Calm reigns again. The fort has surrendered, the final charge having been led by Corney Delaney.
Her ladyship spoke to him; but the Countess observed that no one else did. To herself, however, the gentlemen were as attentive as ever. Evan sat three chairs distant from her. If the traitor expected his sister to share in his disgrace, by noticing him, he was in error. On the contrary, the Countess joined the conspiracy to exclude him, and would stop a mild laugh if perchance he looked up.
"I got eight hundred and fifty dollars out of the deal, and Evan Adam Baldwin only got a few mediocre and amateur kisses, which he shared with me, for all his hard labor in plowing and tilling and restoring Elmnest and me to the point of being of value in the scheme of things. I got the best of that deal and why should I sulk?" I said to myself in a firm and even tone of voice. I didn't.
"You knew it last night, and yet you didn't send somebody to hold me up and take the papers away from me?" The senator's chuckle rumbled deep in his mighty chest. "Maybe I was counting a little on the kinship, Evan, boy. Maybe I was saying to myself: 'No, I reckon the boy won't do it, after all not when he reads what's set down in the papers; he just naturally couldn't do it."
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