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In an adjoining state I heard of mother’s illness and hastened to see her, but I am too late. Now, do not think me a phantom, for see, Tiger recognizes me and welcomes me home, and will not you?" An instant Fanny wavered, then with a half-fearful, half-joyful cry she went forward, and by the grave of the mother that day lowered to the dust, the sisters met in a long, fervent embrace.
As I have said, in my earliest memory, I mind that I stood in an embrasure, high up in the side of the Pyramid, and looked outwards through a queer spy-glass to the North-West. Aye, full of youth and with an adventurous and yet half-fearful heart.
To be absolutely free to do what he liked with himself, during the whole of a spring day, was a sensation so novel that he was holding closely to it, half-fearful that it might all be a dream from which it would be a terrible thing to awake to see one of Chestermarke's ledgers under his nose.
And alone in the hushed bigness of that land the man walked with his thoughts brooding, perhaps, over whatever it was that had so strangely placed him there dreaming, it may be, over that which might have been, or that which yet might be viewing with questioning, wondering, half-fearful eyes the mighty, untamed scenes that met his eye on every hand.
The girl's swift speech, her half-fearful glances towards the door, puzzled Phyllis. "Can you not come nearer to me and talk?" she asked. "No! You must not speak to me again. You must not let any one, especially the man himself, know what I have told you. No more now. Watch for the handkerchief!" "But what shall I say to him?" The girl took no notice of her.
The footfalls seemed to hesitate; then they came again, the bolt of the door shot back, and a crack of faint light shewed. "Who's there?" asked Barbara's voice, trembling with alarm or some other agitation which made her tones quick and timid. I made no answer. The door opened a little wider. I saw her face as she looked out, half-fearful, yet surely also half-expectant.
The road crept and curled down the hill, now covered from side to side with the interlacing boughs of grand old chestnuts; now barriered on the edge of a ravine with broken fragments and boulders of granite, garlanded by heavy vines; now skirting orchards full of promise; and all the way companied by a tiny brook, veiled deeply in alder and hazel thickets, and making in its shadowy channel perpetual muffled music, like a child singing in the twilight to reassure its half-fearful heart.
It rustled the silken garments of the ladies, and waved the long curls of the gentlemen's wigs, and shook the window-hangings and the curtains of the bedchambers; causing everywhere a singular stir, which yet was more like a hush. A shadow of awe and half-fearful anticipation nobody knew wherefore, nor of what had all at once fallen over the company.
As she thus pressed her countenance with convulsive eagerness against the cold bars, the young people caught the contagion of inexpressible and half-fearful sadness they approached almost respectfully "Do you want anything here?" said the eldest and boldest of the boys. "I I surely this is Dale Cottage?"
Wheaton had left, a neighbor from the tall tenement having taken her place. Belle looked at the bereaved girl with half-fearful eyes as if she expected reproaches, and when Clara kissed her in greeting she said "Don't" so sharply as to excite surprise. "Belle," said Clara gently, "mother's at rest." "That's more than I am," muttered the girl.
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