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All day she lived on the hope that something might happen to bring him back at night; but before sundown Captain Rheid drove triumphantly into his own yard, shouting out to his wife in the kitchen doorway that the Linnet was well on her way. At dusk, Linnet's lonely time, Marjorie stepped softly through the entry and stood beside her. "O, Marjorie!
"We always know that our friends may die that is trouble. I feel as if it would kill me for any one I love to die." "Will is safe and well," said Linnet, "and father and mother." "And Morris I shall find a letter for me at home, I expect. I suppose his mother had hers last night. How she lives in him! She loves him more than any of us. But what kind of a feeling have you?" "I don't know."
Surely the grove must be a safe place for birds, or they would not be here. Hark! A whirring, whistling sound fills the air, like the air tone of a flying hawk's wings. A hawk! A hawk! Down plunges the scared linnet, blindly, frantically, into the space sheltered by the grove! Horrors! What is this? Threads!
"Suppose we were walking in one of the excavated streets of Pompeii and I should say, 'O, girls! Look at that wall! and you should see a rude cross carved on it, what would you think?" "I should think they knew about Christ," answered Linnet. The clover leaf tatting had fallen into her lap and the shuttle was on the grass. "Yes, and is that all?" "Why, yes," she acknowledged.
"Under Cardinal Mazarin, there was literally nothing but disorder and confusion; he had the council held whilst he was being shaved and dressed, without ever giving anybody a seat, not even the chancellor or Marshal Villeroy, and he was often chattering with his linnet and his monkey all the time he was being talked to about business.
I see ourselves grown up and having a splendid home and a real splendid husband, and we each have three children. She has two boys and one girl, and I have two girls and one boy. And we educate them and dress them so nice, and they do lovely things. We travel all around the world with them, and I tell Linnet all we see in Europe and Asia. Our husbands stay home and send us money.
Old Katherine kept her door and window tightly closed; the children's noise was painful to her. She sat by the hearth, with her head swathed in a thick kerchief; but she heard the cries nevertheless. "Come, linnet, come!" "William, come!" Lifting up both arms, she stretched her trembling fingers beseechingly on high. He had not come today either. Jesus, Mary, where could he be staying so long?
Linnet's marriage was holier and happier because of Miss Prudence's teaching. Miss Prudence was an old maid; but she had helped others beside Linnet and Marjorie towards the happiest marriage. Marjorie had not one selfish, or shallow, or false idea with regard to marriage. And why should girls have, who have good mothers and the Old and New Testaments?
Linnet's hour was nine o'clock when she was studying, and look at her and Nannie Rheid." "But I'm not getting through to be married, as Linnet was." "How do you know?" asked Miss Prudence. "Not intentionally, then," smiled Marjorie, opening her eyes this time. "I'm not the old maid that eschews matrimony; all I want is to choose for you and Prue."
Drain the well of faith dug with so many prayers and labours, that its waters may suffice to nourish a rose planted in the sand, whose blooms must die at the first touch of creeping earthly frost? "The philosopher would say that I was mad; that the linnet in the hand is better than all the birds of paradise which ever flew in fabled tropic seas.
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