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Yet when John was in the house or whenever she was obliged to be careful about Hepsie, as she often was, she was outraged in her own sight, and her colours trailed in the dust of humiliation, for she saw that the path she was treading was one of unaccustomed duplicity.
We'll have to have an agreement about our plan of life together. If he ever comes back I shall never deceive him again, but I will never be deceived by him again, either." "Well, you know best, Lizzie. I'll talk to Jake for you. You'd best try t' keep him an' Hepsie. They're good friends an' you're goin' t' need friends."
"Why, I thought Hepsie and I could care for her," John replied. Trained nurses were unheard of in those days. "It simply cannot be," answered the old man. It's a matter of life or death at least it might be," he added under his breath. "Couldn't you stay?" he asked Susan Hornby, who sat with the baby on her knee. "The girl's liable to slip away from us before I could get here."
John was usually so clever about keeping out of sight when he insisted upon anything unpleasant that it had never occurred to Elizabeth that Hepsie was aware that John insisted upon having her do things which he felt that Hepsie could not be trusted to do unwatched. There was nothing more to be said. She reckoned the girl's wages, and told her that Jake could have the team.
Erldon's arm, and hurried her along the snowy path from the old church door, "I say I've been thinking what a jolly and dear old world this is, and if only the people in it were a little bit nicer, why, there wouldn't be a thing to grumble at, would there?" Mrs. Erldon turned her rather sad, but sweet face towards her little daughter, and smiled at her. Somehow folks often did smile at Hepsie.
Hepsie came and went as the exigencies of the work permitted, and there was always a horse provided for her journeys away from the place; in fact, Hepsie was much more free than her mistress had been in her first three years in the same house.
"I think I'll take that youngster home with me if you're goin' t' be alone t' day," he announced. Doctor Morgan looked relieved. "That's about the kindest thing you could do for this girl," he said. "Noland isn't as well as I'd like to have him, and she's up every hour in the night. It takes a hired girl to run off at a time like this." Elizabeth defended Hepsie at once. "Hepsie's pure gold.
You're too kind and I'm always saying something I shouldn't. Do forgive me, mother darling! "Hepsie!" Hepsie paused, and stared. Her gentle mother was gazing so strangely and sternly at her. "You are speaking of my father, Hepsie," she said quietly, but in a voice new to her child, though it was still gentle and low, "and in treating him with disrespect you have hurt me deeply."
"You better come in too, Hansen," Doctor Morgan said to Luther, when they arrived at the Hunter house. Sadie had stayed with Hepsie at the house, and Luther had expected to take her and go straight home. The two women had been busy in the three hours since the body of Hugh Noland had been taken from the house.
He could not bear to have her mixed up with any sort of scandal, when her neighbours so little understood the real situation, and would be so ready to strike her wherever they could. "Then you go an' see Hornby to-night, Lizzie. Have Jake hitch up for you, an' take Hepsie along." Luther paused a moment and then proceeded on another phase of her troubles. "Lizzie, how do you feel about it?
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