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"Not with them; I was with the weary, heart-broken old man who passed out when joy began." "Ah! I fancied you did not half appreciate Gratiano's jesting. Miss Levice, I am afraid you allow the sorry things of life to take too strong a hold on you. It is not right. I assure you for every tear there is a laugh, and you must learn to forget the former in the latter."
The soft smile that played upon her husband's face was reflected on Mrs. Levice's. "Oh, Ruth," she murmured tremulously, "it will be so hard for you." This was a virtual laying down of arms, and Ruth was satisfied. Louis Arnold, the only other member of the Levice family, had been forced to leave town on some business the morning after Mrs. Levice's attack at the Merrill reception.
He positively refused to get up yesterday on account of the 'soft feel, as he termed it, of that quilt. Now, you know, he must get up; he is able to, and in a week I wish to start him in to work again. Then he won't be able to afford such 'soft feels, and he will rebel. He has had enough coddling for his own good. I really think it is mistaken kindness on your part, Miss Levice."
He knew this, and was mending slowly; I examined him several times and found no increase in the loss of tissue, while he told me the cough was not so troublesome." "But for some weeks before he left," said Mrs. Levice, "he coughed every morning and night. When I besought him to see a doctor, he ridiculed me out of the idea. How did you find him before he left?" "I have not seen Mr.
He turned quickly to her. "What is it?" he asked, his grave eyes scanning her anxiously. "Nothing," she responded. It was the first word she had spoken to him since the afternoon ceremony. He turned back to Levice, lowering his ear to his chest. After a faint, almost imperceptible pause he arose. "I think you had all better lie down," he said softly. "I shall sit with him, and you all need rest."
"Did you enjoy it?" queried her aunt, either evading or failing to perceive the meaning. "I did." A pause, and then, "Did Ruth?" Mrs. Levice saw a flash of daylight, but her answer hinted at no perturbation. "Very much. Booth is her actor-idol, you know." "So I have heard."
"Which the Jew cannot obtain?" A soft glow overspread her face and mounted to her brow. "Dr. Kemp," she answered, "we have begun. I should like to quote to you the beautiful illustration with which one of our rabbis was inspired to answer a clergyman asking the same question; but I should only spoil that which in his mouth seemed eloquent." "You would not, Miss Levice. Tell the story, please."
"I do not doubt that you will make a perfect mother, my child;" the gentle meaning of her father's words and glance caused Ruth to flush with pleasure. When Levice said, "My child," the words were a caress. "Just believe in her, Esther; one of her earliest lessons was 'Whatever you do, do thoroughly. She had to learn it through experience. But as you trust me, trust my pupil."
Levice preferred his deferential bearing when he addressed her, and Ruth's grave graciousness with him. She drew her own conclusions, and accepted Ruth's quietness with more patience on this account. Louis understood somewhat; and in his manliness he could not hide that her suffering had cost him a new code of actions. But he could not understand as her father did.
She sprang up, and drawing a stool before her father's chair, exclaimed, "Now, Father, a grown-up Mother-Goose story for my birthday; make it short and sweet and with a moral like you." Mr. Levice patted her head and rumpled the loosely gathered hair. "Once upon a time," he began, "a little boy went into his father's warehouse and ate up all the sugar in the land.
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