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Updated: May 11, 2025
The peasants of that part of the world have never quite lost their distrust of railways, of telegrams, and even of letters they are half-afraid of them all, afraid with that vague, unreasoning fear which animals have for things they see yet cannot understand. Elsa handled this unopened letter with something of that same fear. She did not think at first of looking at the superscription.
"Sara," he whispered, wondering, bewildered, half-afraid to believe this unbelievable joy. "I'm not half worthy of you but but" he bent forward and put his arm around her, looking straight into her clear, unshrinking eyes. "Sara, will you be my wife?" "Yes." She said the word clearly and truly. "And I will think myself a proud and happy and honoured woman to be so, Jeff.
"The dead . . ." he murmured . . . "We have come unto the land of the dead." Both stood in silence, reverent, awed, half-afraid. Then Ootah snapped his whip. He called to the dogs. "Let us go unto them . . . Let us show that men are not afraid. Huk! Huk! Huk! Come!" The dogs howled, the traces tightened, the sleds sped forward. They entered the defile. The trail twisted up the side of the abyss.
With her half-afraid glance fixed upon the dazzling Joan, it was small wonder that Doris fell into the trap set for her by Martin and Nancy. She took the girls abroad or was it Joan that led the way? She considered, after reaching the little Italian town from which she had seen Meredith depart, how best to speak of Thornton.
"I have your word of honor that you will regard the ceremony as a formal compact between us two?" she murmured, unaccountably shy, and seemingly half-afraid that he meant to clasp her in his arms then and there. "You have," he said, relinquishing her hand.
He was half-afraid to do so and wanted to think about her. She was pluckier than he had imagined and was obviously sincere, since she did not know Jim would be rich, but he doubted if she could keep it up. Jim was rude and tempestuous, and she would not be satisfied with him long.
And, while he was seeing the light of the simulated cheeriness die out in her face, she was seeing the strange, exalted glow, of which she was more than half-afraid, kindle in his pupils. It was as though she were giving up the living fire out of her own heart to set ablaze the ambition and anticipation in his own.
But you were nice when you were willing to think about the thing." Then Mrs. Halliday began to talk and presently Jim got up. "I must go," he said. "I didn't know I had stayed so long." Evelyn gave him her hand and smiled. "I expect you will be occupied, but if you have time to come back you will find us at home." "Thank you," said Jim. "I was half-afraid I'd bored you. I'll certainly have time."
Creighton, and he wished to put it out of his own power to offer himself to her in a moment of weakness. Much as he admired the beauty, the wit, and the worldly spirit of the pretty widow, he was half-afraid of her; he judged her by himself; he knew that she was artful, and he knew that she was poor; for her late husband, Mr.
There was no more after that about twins, and when she left she felt that progress had been made. Striking while the iron was hot she sent to Ikpe for school books, and going into the highways and byways, she began to coax the lads to come and learn. They stood aloof, half-afraid and half-scornful, and would not respond.
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