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He at first made a step forward, then muttered a few half-audible words; but, quailing at length beneath the young man's bright and steady eye, he turned and slowly withdrew. Fanshawe remained silent a moment after his opponent had departed, and, when he next spoke, it was in a tone of depression.
"Well did you give her any cause for jealousy?" Ranny's mother struck in. "He wouldn't, John." And his Aunt Randall murmured half-audible and shocked negation. Ranny stared at his uncle as if he wondered where he was coming out next. "Of course I didn't." "Are you quite sure about that?" "You needn't ask him such a thing," said Ranny's mother; and Ranny fairly squared himself.
You are blind, Therese, hopelessly blind, and your father's heart is broken!" The audience were deeply moved by this outburst of paternal grief and tenderness. Here and there were heard half-audible murmurs of sympathy, and many of the ladies had their handkerchiefs to their eyes. Everybody was touched except Professor Barth.
There sat his pious and venerable grandmother, with the little round stand before her, upon which lay the old family Bible, over which she was intently bending, reading and commenting to herself, as was her custom, in half-audible tones.
Mere reading is not study. Muttering the words over in a low, gurgling tone, or letting them glide in a soft, half-audible ripple upon your lips, is not study. Going over the lesson in a listless, dreamy way, one eye on the book and one eye ready for whatever is going on in other parts of the room, is not study. Study is work. Study is agony.
"Catch me ever teaching," was the half-audible reply, but softly as it was spoken sharp ears caught it. "Posterity will be grateful for the blessings in store for it, 'undoubtedly." The word fell to a little girl, but was rattled off as quick as a wink, to Miss Preston's great amusement, for the child was an ambitious little body who hated to be outdone by the big girls.
"God forgive those," she said to herself, in a half-audible tone, "that would rob these poor children of that divine religion that teaches her children such heavenly hymns."
"I no, I hardly think so," Richard answered, confusedly. Their eyes met, and he smiled vaguely. Then Harriet slowly crossed the hall to the door of the guest room where she was spending the night, and gave him an only half-audible good-night. Richard stood watching the door for a moment or two after it had closed upon the slender, dimly seen figure.
"Because my husband says he'll shake me," she whimpered, after a long pause. "He never has no patience with ghosts." "Serve you right," was the half-audible comment of Mr. Verner. "Is this all you know of the affair?" he continued, after a pause. "It's all, sir," she sobbed. "And enough too. There's only one thing as I shall be for ever thankful for." "What's that?" asked Mr. Verner.
The two processions had now joined and were going back toward the church. The jealous, infuriated woman continued, in a half-audible voice, to hurl her insulting tirade over those broad, exuberant shoulders in front of her a splendid pedestal for a beautiful head with luxuriant hair. Dolores turned around with a smirk of biting ridicule on her face. Beg pardon! Had all that been for her?
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