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She paused a minute as to give her friend the full benefit of this as to Maggie's measure of which, however, no sign came; and then, poor woman, haplessly, she crowned her effort. "He wouldn't hurt a hair of your head." It had produced in Maggie, at once, and apparently in the intended form of a smile, the most extraordinary expression. "Ah, there it is!" But her guest had already gone on.
She paused a minute as to give her friend the full benefit of this as to Maggie's measure of which, however, no sign came; and then, poor woman, haplessly, she crowned her effort. "He wouldn't hurt a hair of your head." It had produced in Maggie, at once, and apparently in the intended form of a smile, the most extraordinary expression. "Ah, there it is!" But her guest had already gone on.
Here were two camels, tired and dusty, with that look of bored and indifferent superiority that belongs to their tribe, two elephants, two clowns, and last, but of course the climax of the whole affair, a cage in which there could be seen behind the iron bars a lion and a lioness, jolted haplessly from side to side, but too deeply shamed and indignant to do more than reproach the crowd with their burning eyes.
He, haplessly for himself, thought that he had a grievance. The rights of primogeniture droits d'ainesse were not respected in the family of the Baldwins as they should have been, had prudence and common sense had their way. No sacred or divine right is conferred by the fact of a man's being the first-born son.
She know why the attack was planned, and with what prodigious hazard and heroical toil and endurance it was carried out; how the dauntless little army of riflemen cut their way through the untrodden forests of Maine and Canada, and beleaguered the gray old fortress on her rock till the red autumn faded into winter, and, on the last bitter night of the year, flung themselves against her defences, and fell back, leaving half their number captive, Montgomery dead, and Arnold wounded, but haplessly destined to survive.
He knew nothing of such sufferings as would have been hers as must be hers, for had she not already fallen haplessly into the pit when she had once allowed herself to fix her heart upon a thing so base as this? It might have been better, he thought, if that letter had been written. A dim dull idea came upon him that he was not fit to be this girl's husband.
He followed her back into the still dishevelled dining room, and sat down at a long table to a cup of lukewarm drink that in color and quality recalled terrible mornings of Atlantic travel when he haplessly rose and descended to the dining-saloon of the steamer, and had a marine version of British coffee brought him by an alien table-steward.
Do you see Mrs. Harmon? You knew the Evanses had gone to Europe." "Yes; I got a letter from him yesterday." "He didn't pick up so fast as they hoped, and he concluded to try the voyage. I hear very good accounts of him. He said he was going to write you. Well! And Mr. Corey is well?" He smiled more beamingly upon Lemuel, who felt that he wished him to go, and stood haplessly trying to get away.
She would decline to see him, were he to ask for her at the door; but, not for an instant did she wish to hear that he did not wish to see her, yet he had haplessly, brusquely said he wouldn't have come had he known she was there. It was her duty to leave him, instantly. It was her desire first to punish him. "My aunt is not at home," she began, the frost of the Sierras in her tone.
His care and interest, however, were needed but a little while not two years claps'd after the parents were laid away to their last repose before another grave had to be prepared for the son the child who had been so haplessly deprived of their fostering care. The period now arrived when the great national convulsion burst forth.
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