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Laying his hand on her head, he said, with a half-sob, he was hysterical now there was nothing more to be done: "Oh, your bonny hair, my darlin'! It's all scorched away." "It'll grow!" said Elspie, looking up in his eyes archly. Her head was on his shoulder, and she nestled closer; then she burst into tears and laughter together, crying: "Oh, Donald, it was for you I was callin'. Did ye hear me?
"Yessir," in a half-sob, that vibrated with the obstinate resentment of a child that knows it is to be argued out of its instincts by adult sophistry. What had become of her passive personality? "You are now the owner of two and a half million dollars that is about five hundred thousand pounds. Five hundred thousand pounds. Think of ten sovereigns ten golden sovereigns like that Mrs.
The man sank forward from the hips, relaxing entirely, and with a groan dropped his head on her knee. She leaned over him and pressed her lips softly and lingeringly to his hair. "Come, let us go," she said, almost in a whisper. She caught her breath in a half-sob, then tightened her lips as she rose. His face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which he had passed.
And then she was on her knees by my bed, and I was in her arms and held close to her heart. "Oh, I can't tell " Her voice broke in a half-sob she tried to smother. "No one can ever know what it meant to me, but I knew she understood, and suddenly the something that had been tight and cruel snapped, and for the first time tears came." "I understand, child. I understand."
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