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Updated: June 28, 2025
Ask Ben Benson only ask Ben, he is truthful as the sun; he has known her from the cradle. Ben Benson told me with his own lips, that Lina's mother was dead!" James Harrington became excited; his eye kindled. "Did Ben Benson tell you this?" "He did, indeed; but why waste time in guessing? Let us go home; the old fellow will help us to put this right."
This was the purport of Murdock's letter, if we except a kind of inquiry after 'Lina, of whose death he had not heard. The second, for Alice, was from Anna Richards, who was also ignorant as yet of 'Lina's decease.
Hugh was very weak, very nervous, too, and turning his head away so that she could not see his face, he let the hot tears drop upon his pillow; slowly at first they came, but gradually as everything his embarrassed condition, Rocket's loss, 'Lina's selfishness, and Alice's generosity, came rushing over him they fell in perfect torrents, and Alice felt a keen pang of pity, as sob after sob smote upon her ear, and she knew the shame it must be to him thus to give away before her.
This was the mother's charitable explanation, made with a bitter sigh as she recalled 'Lina's heartless anger when the letter was received, as if Hugh were to blame, as, indeed, 'Lina seemed to think he was. Meantime Alice, in her own room, was reading 'Lina's note, containing a most glowing description of the delightful time she was having at Saratoga, and how hard it would be to leave.
Dotty knew very well that her mother would never allow her to go to Lina's house; but she did not like to say that, and she only replied, "I've matched my worsteds, and now I must go home." "O, you can go home afterwards. My mother said to me to-day, 'Do you bring Dotty Dimple home to supper this very night. She'll be so glad to see you!"
For a moment, Lina's little hand fluttered like a bird over the strings of her guitar; then it made a graceful dash, and her voice broke forth: Like a water-lily floating, On the bosom of a rill, Like a star sent back to Heaven, When the lake is calm and still; A woman's soul lies dreaming, On the stilly waves of life, Till love comes with its sunshine Its tenderness and strife.
The dark twining corridor was strewn with rubbish, for no one had the will or wish to keep it neat. Anna Andreevna rummaged by the stove of Sergius Andreevich, Lina's husband, looking among the papers and sweepings.
Meantime the doctor and 'Lina were walking up and down the long piazza, chatting gayly, and attracting much attention from 'Lina's loud manner of talking and laughing. "By the way, I've called on Miss Johnson, at the Columbian," she said. "Beautiful, isn't she?" "Ra-ather pretty, some would think," and the doctor had an uncomfortable consciousness of the refusal in his vest pocket.
"Yes, yes; oh, forgive us!" burst out from among Lina's sobs. "Forgive us and who is the other?" There was a tremble in Mabel's voice a premonitory shiver of the limbs. Oh, how she dreaded the answer that would come. "You know you must guess," pleaded poor Lina. "No, who is he?" "Mrs. Mrs. Harrington, oh, don't send me away!"
"No, you're very kind, but I'll sprinkle her forehead she has been so frightened, you know, I dare say she thought the snake had bitten had bitten one of us, Ben! That is right, hold the hat this way." Ben dropped on his knees in the bottom of the boat, crushing down a whole forest of Lina's wild flowers, and held up the hat reverently between his hands.
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