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The young man slammed the door leading to the stairway with a fierce gesture. "If you weren't blinder than a bat, mother, you'd know by this time what ailed Fan," he said angrily. Mrs. Dodge sank into a chair by the table. "Oh, I ain't blind," she denied weakly; "but I thought mebbe Fannie I hoped " "Did you think she'd refused him?" demanded Jim roughly.
He sprang to his knees and cast his arms about her neck, but she was too quick, and his kiss was lost in air. He flashed a resentful surprise, but she shook her head, holding his wasted wrists, and said, "N-no, no, my Johnnie, not even you; not Fannie Halliday, o-oh no!" She laughed. "Some one's coming!" she whispered. It was Judge March. His adieus were very grateful. He called her a blessing.
Pettigrew thereafter the tool of Leggett, and which might even more easily have been a tragedy with the mountain people for actors and himself its victim. Ravenel and Fannie were married in church on an afternoon. The bridesmaids were Barbara and a very pretty cousin of Fannie's from Pulaski City, who would have been prettier yet had she not been revel-worn.
There was a "perfect gentleman" to make, and only a few years left for his making if he was to be completed in the stipulated time. Once in a while he contrived an errand to Fannie, but it was always in broad day, when the flower of love is never more than half open. The perfect transport of its first blossoming could not quite return; the pronoun "my" was not again paraded.
Durant was too ill to be present, but her cousin, Miss Fannie Massie, lifted the tin box out of its hollow and handed it to President Pendleton who opened the Bible and read aloud the inscription: "This building is humbly dedicated to our Heavenly Father with the hope and prayer that He may always be first in everything in this institution; that His word may be faithfully taught here; and that He will use it as a means of leading precious souls to the Lord Jesus Christ."
"My first wife was Lou Burnsides and we had five children: Eliza, Fannie, George, Julia, and Jennie. All of them are dead but two. I have no children by my present wife. "I never saw a slave whipped or in chains. My boss did not believe in that kind of punishment. If the children needed whipping, it was done like all other children are whipped when they need it.
"Go," said Ravenel, softly. "Didn't you see? She wants you." John overtook the dainty figure, lifted his military cap, and slackened his pace. "Miss Fannie?" he caught step with her. "Oh! why good morning." She was delightfully cordial. "Did you want to see me?" he asked. "Mr. Ravenel thought you did." Fannie raised her brows and laughed. "Why, really, Mr.
"Hark from the Tombses," murmured Barbara. "And so you'll both come!" said Fannie. "Why, as I say, Miss Fannie, thass the question, fo' there's the care o' my flock, you know." "De laymbs," put in Virginia, "de laymbs is bleeds to be fed, you know, Miss Fannie, evm if dey is black."
"When he told about going to meeting," Fannie Eldridge said, "it reminded me of a story mamma tells, of an old horse up in Granby, that went to church one Sunday all by himself." "How droll! How did it happen, Fannie?"
But Fannie had her own way that time, too, and married "Massa Hale;" and when Chloe found there was no help for it, she said she would go and be her cook, "just to look after the dear child a bit, and see that she had everything she wanted," and that nothing was wasted.
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