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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Not Cousin Jimmy?" asked the girl lightly. "No, you could never guess, if you guessed all night." "Not Charley Gracey surely? I wouldn't speak to him for the world." Though Jane had returned to Charley, and even Mrs.
But the end had not come, and three months later Jane was married to Charley Gracey. The elder children, with their flannel petticoats pinned over their thin little shoulders, were sitting straight and stiff on a box couch which had been turned into a bed, and their strange little faces looked wan and peaked in the firelight. Jane was really ill, Gabriella decided, after a glance at her sister.
Starlight slipped away in the crowd from his two friends, and managed to get a quiet few minutes with me and Gracey and Aileen; she was scolding him between jest and earnest for the kissing business, and said she thought he was going to leave off these sort of attentions to other girls. 'Not that she knew you at first, a bit in the world, Aileen said.
They both looked at me for a minute as if they'd never seen me before, and then Aileen turned as pale as death, and Gracey got altogether as red, and both held out their hands. I sat down by the side of Aileen, and we all began to talk.
That one thing's the thought of Gracey Storefield. She couldn't come to me, she wrote, just yet, but she'd come within the month, and I wasn't to fret about her, because whether it was ten years or twenty years if she was alive she'd meet me the day after I was free, let who will see her.
I happened to be riding up with a message for mother, to borrow some soap, when I heard a little cry like a lamb's, and there was poor little Gracey struggling in the water like a drowning kitten, with her face under. Another minute or two would have finished her, but I was off the old pony and into the water like a teal flapper.
My head almost turned round, and I felt my heart beat beat in a way it never did when the bullets were singing and whistling all about. It was the suddenness of it, I expect. I looked at them for a bit. They didn't see me, and were just looking about them as I did. They were dressed very quiet, but Gracey had a little more ornament on her, and a necklace or something round her neck.
She has the full of a rabbit-skin o' guineas." "A made boy! Faith, they say I'm that as it is, you know. But would you wish me to put my comedher on Gracey Dalton? Spake out." "To be sure I would." "Ay," observed the mother, "or what 'ud you think of Miss Pattherson? That 'ud be the girl. She has a fine farm, an' five hundre pounds. She's a Protestant, but Phelim could make a Christian of her."
If she and Gracey could have got hold of Kate Morrison there wouldn't have been much left of her in a quarter of an hour, I could see that. Inside was a little bit of paper with one line, 'For my sake, that was all. I knew the writing; there was no more.
Then Aileen laughed, and Jim comes to the rescue and says 'Dick doesn't remember you, Gracey. You've grown such a swell, too. You can't be the little girl we used to carry on our backs. 'Dick remembers very well, she says, and her very voice was ever so much fuller and softer, 'don't you, Dick? and she looked into my face as innocent as a child.
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