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Their ideal, religion, was contained in the adoration of a woman, but not her body it was a love of her spirit, the spirit their purity of need recognized, perhaps helped to create. It was a passion as different as possible in essence from all she had observed about her. It was useless for common purposes, withheld from Arnaud Hallet.
"There!" he whined, "I told you so, Tim. I said you hadn't ought to act that way." "Aw, what are you givin' us!" sneered Hallet. "You thought 'twas as funny as anybody, Zeb Kendrick. Look here, Ros Paine! I thought you was down on them Coltons. We fellers are only havin' a little fun with 'em for bein' so stuck-up and hoggish. Can't you take a joke?" "Not your kind. Go back, Zeb."
Her clothes, too, had hardly varied she wore, whenever possible, white lawns ruffled about the throat and hem, with broad soft black sashes, while her more formal dresses were sheaths of dull unornamented satin extravagant in the perfection of their simplicity. Arnaud Hallet stirred, sharply closing his book. He had changed except for a palpable settling down of grayness as little as Linda.
Nothing in Pleydon's life, not even his success, could have made up for your loss." She wondered dully if Dodge had missed her, if Arnaud Hallet had ever had her in his possession. The robins filled the immaculate air with song. It was impossible that Dodge, who was so imperious in his certainty that he would never say good-by to her, was dead.
I've been sworn at and called dreadful names. Sometimes they're only silly. One cried; I hated that the most." "Do you mean that you were sorry for him?" "Oh, dear, no. Why should I be? He looked so odious all smeared with tears." Arnaud Hallet returned promptly: "Linda, you're a little beast." To counteract his rude speech he kissed her again.
Pleydon's voice began in a low remembering tone: "What a fantastic place the Feldt apartment was, with that smothered room where you said you would marry me. You must have got hold of Hallet in the devil of a hurry. I've often tried to understand what happened; why, all the time, you were upset why, why, why?"
The old Hallet, Seaverns, Balch, and Louder homes, all suggest interesting and valuable memories, which we would gladly record did our limits permit. But we are tempted to spare a few moments doe a stroll through Louder's Lane.
Massachusetts sent Charles Gordon Greene, the veteran editor of the Boston Post; Benjamin F. Butler, then known as a smart Lowell lawyer, and the old anti-Mason, Ben. F. Hallet, then United States District Attorney.
But he's studyin' at his wireless all the time and some day but I'm afraid that day will be a long way off. Cap'n Jeth is as set as the side of a stone wharf and you'd have to take him to pieces to move him. That was another of father's sayin's," she added, "that about the stone wharf." "Why, why is the ah why is Captain Hallet so opposed to young Howard?" asked Galusha. "Spiritualism.
This was denied me; for such had been the merciless blow that destroyed her, that not a LINEAMENT REMAINED! I was carried hence to the city. Mrs. Hallet was my companion and my nurse. Why should I dwell upon the rage of fever, and the effusions of delirium? Carwin was the phantom that pursued my dreams, the giant oppressor under whose arm I was for ever on the point of being crushed.
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