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"They've only made her obstinate," she thought, as she, lying with hands clasped behind her head, watched Pauline, propped upon an elbow, staring with dreamful determination into the moonlight. "It'll come out all right," she said; her voice always suggested that she knew what she was talking about. "Your father'll give in sooner or later if YOU don't change."
"I s'pose I can go. I s'pose father'll say I'd better. An' Abby she was all for it, when I spoke about it to her. She thinks she can have the Fay girl over to stay with her, an' she wants me to buy her a dress in Boston, instead of gettin' it here." "Well," said Amanda, with a sigh she was quite pale "I'll think of it." "We've got to make up our minds," said Mrs. Babcock sharply.
After the strain of the day, a day spent either in the toil of a developing business or under a difficult pressure of thought, this light girl's voice brought a gay, relaxed note into life. The spring was in the air, and his youth stirred again in that cavern where grief had buried it. 'Oh, dear, I must go home, she said at last regretfully, startled by a striking clock. 'Father'll be just mad.
But now she's gone to mother, and father'll come home, and he'll find nobody but me and Robbie, and the money safe. Oh! I wish I'd asked God. 'Meg, said Robin, after she had worn herself out with sobs and tears, and was lying silently beside baby, 'I'm very poorly. I think I'll go to live with the angels, where mother and baby are gone. Meg started up, and gazed anxiously at Robin.
But your father'll be a different man now you see, he'll be like a boy again. And if you could stay long enough, you might take him to Bristol or Clifton I think it wass to see if they could do anything about his eyes....
"No, no; I'll do what's wanted myself," replied Bet; "ef you'll take the boys I'll bring them down asleep as they are, and I'll be ever so much obligated. No, don't come upstairs, please. Father'll be in presently, and then him and me and mother must be alone; for I've a word to say to father, and no one must hear me." Bet went back to the room where her mother had died.
John knows that, an' it makes him wild. Mind what I'm tellin' you, Sidney; if any 'arm comes to that girl, her father'll go out of his 'ead. I know he will! I know he will! He worships the ground as she walks on, an' if it hadn't been for that, she'd never have given him the trouble as she is doin'. It 'ud a been better for her if she'd had a father like mine, as was a hard, careless man.
Amid a clamor of accusations and denials, the policeman seized upon two culprits and indicated a third. "You let me go!" shrieked Mac. "My father'll make it all right! Tell him who I am, Mason! Make him let me go!" But Mason was bent upon bringing all the criminals to justice. "I'm going to have you all up before the juvenile court, rich and poor!" he declared excitedly.
He's old English. He won't dream of asking questions. He'll see a brave and honest young man who must love you, or he does love you, that's settled. Your father'll shake his hand, and as for Rhoda, she'll triumph. The only person to speak out to, is the man who marries you, and that you've done." Robert looked the interrogation he did not utter. "I have," said Dahlia.
But I'm afraid father'll think me a fraud. It'll be your fault if I can't get away next week." Eric had to think for a moment before he recalled that her birthday fell in the following week. It was the first time that she had referred even indirectly to it on her own initiative. He looked at her closely, but her face revealed only high spirits and a radiant pleasure in being with him again.
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