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'I beg your pardon, Gilbert said, passing his hand over his brow, 'I did not hear. 'I was only asking you to tell my sister that I would not disturb her, and leaving my good-byes with you. 'You are not going? 'Thank you; I think my wife will grow anxious. 'I had hoped' Gilbert sighed and paused 'I had thought that perhaps The wretchedness of his tone drove away Mr.
Madam Wetherill spread out her fine gown so that it almost covered the plain garments of the child. Lois Henry had merely uttered the briefest of good-byes, with no parting kiss. She had given her some counsel before. Yet when she shut the main door that opened into the sitting room, for the strictest of Friends would have no parlor, she sat down suddenly and put both hands to her face.
She was glad to have got out of the bedroom without showing more signs of emotion, and she went through the rest of her visit and all the good-byes with a quiet propriety that made her say to herself sarcastically as she rode away, "I think I am making a very good Mrs. Grandcourt."
The good-byes had been taken the evening before, and Eyebright did not turn her head, as they glided away, to look at the green tufted shore or the blue sea, bluer than ever in the calm hush of a cloudless sunrise. Very steadily and carefully she rowed, dipping her oars, and "feathering," as papa had taught her, as if only intent on doing her task as well as possible for this the last time.
Now she was keenly alive; life was sharp and alert in every fibre, but it was the last. This night of life was also a night of good-byes. To-morrow she would look on the river again, but she would be dead then dead to joy and to love; it would only be Doolga who would be living rich in both these gifts gifts given by her. The thought ran through her with a tumultuous gladness.
Then came the savory smells of bacon and toast for breakfast, the hurried good-byes, the long, persistent whistle for Royal, the deer hound, his constant chum in all things, then the whizzing crack of the young driver's "blacksnake" whip, a bunching together of the four horses' sturdy little hoofs, a spring forward, and the "mountain mail" was away away up the yawning canyon, where the peaks lifted on every side, where the black forests crowded out the glorious sunrise, away up the wild gorge, where human foot rarely fell and only the wild things prowled from starlight to daylight the long years through; where the trail wound up and up the steeps, losing itself in the clouds which hung like great festoons of cobwebs half-high against the snow line.
I am an old woman, my friend, and I have outlived my generation. I have said too many good-byes in my time. It is au revoir." "With all my heart," he said, smiling. "Au revoir." Her quaint intimation that was the manner in which he characterized it was already dismissed from his mind when he emerged into the street.
"Well," she would say in the nursery again, after the good-byes, kissing the fat little shoulder of Gerald Fairfax Gregory where the old baby white ran into the new boyish tan, "we will not be introspective and imaginative, and cry for the moon.
Ong!" followed by flights of oratory in the English tongue which do not bear repeating, but which were received by the peasant as expressions of deep esteem and to which he replied by endeavouring to kiss the Tommies and shouting, "Vive l'Angleterre! All right! Hoorah!" Our guiding officer began to show some signs of anxiety to have us leave before ten o'clock, but the good-byes took some time.
The passengers bade each other good-bye after they left the tender, and many that were on board that ship never saw each other again. One at least, had few regrets and no good-byes to make, but a surprise was in store for her. Jennie Brewster found a cablegram from New York waiting for her. It said 'Cable nothing respecting mines. Letter follows. London again!
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