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Updated: June 21, 2025
The news of Leam's home-coming created quite a pleasurable excitement in the neighborhood, and the families flocked to Ford House to welcome her among them as one of themselves, all anxious to see if the Ethiopian of North Aston had shed her skin, if the leopardess had changed her spots. They were divided among themselves as to whether she had or had not.
Thus the one was amused and the other was left to herself undisturbed; which was an arrangement that kept Leam's good intentions intact, but prevented the penance which they included from becoming too burdensome.
You do not like to dance with me," said Leam proudly. "No? Who told you such nonsense such a falsehood as that?" hotly. "Yourself," she answered. Alick shifted his place uneasily. Something in Leam's manner to Edgar struck him with an acute sense of distress, and seemed to tell him all that he had hitherto failed to understand.
When we read of a cyclone in China which has killed half a hundred mandarins and a small army of coolies, we realize the sorrow of the survivors no more than we realize the distress of a disturbed ant-hill; and Leam's attitude of mind toward the poor of her native village was precisely the same as ours toward the Chinese killed in a cyclone or the ants murdered in their hill.
He never felt more reconciled to fortune and himself than he did to-day when he rode by the side of the carriage wherein Leam and Fina sat, and looked through the coming years to the time when he should have a little Fina of his own with her mother Leam's dark eyes and her mother Leam's devoted heart. The day was perfect, so was the place.
"She will not tell me who killed mamma." The man's ruddy face, reddened and roughened with travel, grew white and pitiful. "God took her away, my darling," he said with a sob. "She was too good for me, and He took her to live with the angels in heaven," "And Leam's mamma? Is she in heaven too with the angels?" asked Fina, opening her eyes wide through their tears,
On the whole, this was the most important of all the North Aston events which had taken place during the last four years. Soon after madame's death and Leam's transfer from home to school Alick had a strange and sudden illness. No one knew what to make of it, nor how it came, nor what it was, but the doctor called it cerebral fever, and when the families got hold of the word they were content.
Yes, this was Leam's day, her one spell of perfect happiness the day whereon there was no past and no future, only the glad sufficiency of the present a day which seemed as if it had been lent by Heaven, so great was its exquisite delight, so pure its cloudless, shadowless sunshine of love. Leam neither knew nor noted how the neighbors looked.
"I never will come to you and say, 'Mamma, I love you, and ask you to forgive me for being true to my own mamma," said Learn. "I am mamma's daughter, no other person's." Mrs. Dundas smiled. "You will be; mine, sweet child," she said. How ugly Leam's persistent hate looked by the side of so much unwearied goodness! Even Mrs.
Being then pious, madame had hung about her walls short texts in fancy lettering, with a great deal of scroll-work in gold and carmine to make them look pretty. When she came into possession of Leam's mind, she was shocked at her ignorance of all the sayings that were so familiar to herself and other persons of respectability.
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