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"Catherine," said she, "I can't stand here and take cold, but I just want to know one thing: Have you positively made up your mind to marry that young doctor in the horse-blanket?" This question fell like a bomb-shell into the middle of the stationary sleigh. I had never asked Kitty to marry me. I loved her with all my heart and soul, and I hoped, almost believed, that she loved me.
Deborah groped her way into the cellar, and, after considerable stumbling, kindled a match, and lighted a tallow dip, that sent a yellow glimmer over the room. It was low, damp, the earthen floor covered with a green, slimy moss, a fetid air smothering the breath. Old Wolfe lay asleep on a heap of straw, wrapped in a torn horse-blanket.
Somebody had flung a horse-blanket about his lower body that, lying so, the horror of what was not might be concealed. Yet even so Kit found himself shuddering. The terror of that lopped trunk, flat on its back, shocked his heart. Childlike he felt in the dimness for the Parson's fingers, and was made glad by their grip. "I think he's gone," whispered the Parson.
Strolling past the brown house, one morning, he became aware of a tiny figure sitting on the steps in the bright sunshine and wrapped from head to foot in a plaid horse-blanket. "Good-morning, Mac!" he called blithely. "How do you do?" The voice was a shade more subdued, to-day. "Well. What are you doing?" "Nofing much." The minor key was still evident. "Are you sick?" "No; 'course not."
When there is reason to apprehend extreme cold, do not forget to throw a rug or horse-blanket over your pump; a frozen pump is a comfortless preparation for a winter's breakfast. Never allow ashes to be taken up in wood, or put into wood. Always have your tinder-box and lantern ready for use, in case of sudden alarm.
Ringan seemed to feel the cold the worst of us, for he had spent his days in the hot seas of the south. He put his horse-blanket over his shoulders, and cut a comical figure with his red face peeping from its folds. "Lord," he would cry, "I wish I was in the Dry Tortugas or snug in the beach-house at the Isle o' Pines.
His head and most of his face were enveloped in a knit woolen comforter, and mittens of the same make and material protected his hands. His legs were wrapped up in a gray horse-blanket. He was whitened here and there with snow, and snow was packed between the necks of the milk-cans. He drove directly toward the boarding-house, and he and Bressant caught sight of one another at the same moment.
So saying, he helped them up to the seats behind the box, and took out a thick horse-blanket, and wrapped them up snugly therein; and off they went. For the first time since they had come together again, the two young people were alone, and could talk freely and undisturbed, and tell each other how they had passed the three long years since they parted.
"You'd better be keerful, doctor," said Uncle Beamish. "You don't want to git rheumatism in your j'ints on this Christmas mornin'. Here's this horse-blanket that we are settin' on. We don't need it, and you'd better wrap it round you, after you git in, to keep your legs warm." "Oh, do!" said Miss Burroughs. "It may look funny, but we will not meet anybody so early as this."
She was the ragged Kid, crouching on the Little Kopje in the gathering twilight or on the long mound that its eastward shadow covered. Or she was lying under the tattered horse-blanket on the foul straw pallet in the outhouse, waiting for the Lady to come with the great, kind, covering dark.
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