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"After all," she said, as they turned to walk back again across the withered grass, "your fever has taken a good deal out of you." Finally the days of Laura Filbert's sojourn under the Livingstones' roof followed each other into the past that is not much pondered.
It was a foolish thing and the Livingstones' old Karim Bux much deplored it, but the Miss-sahib had forgotten to give information that the dinner of eight commanded a fortnight ago would not take place hence everything was ready in its sequence for this event, with a new fashion of stuffing quails and the first strawberries of the season from Dinapore.
And I don't think she would ask Miss Livingstone. In matters of taste women are rather rivals, aren't they?" "Oh Lord!" Hilda exclaimed, and bit her lip. "Where is Miss Filbert now?" "At Number Ten, Middleton Street." "With the Livingstones?" "Is it so astonishing? Miss Livingstone has been most practical in her kindness.
A class of missionaries quite different from the Livingstones and the Moffatts have devoted themselves to his improvement. They approach him in a different way, and begin on his commercial and industrial side, not on the spiritual. The latter does not appear to be by any means so accessible. Unlike the Ashantees, the Kafirs and the M'pongwe, he was a Christian once, and may become one again.
"Brother is so sensitive concerning his love affairs," wrote Mary, "that whether you conclude to join us or not, you will please say nothing about his intended marriage." Nellie had seated herself to answer this letter, when a servant came up, saying that "Marster Bellmont, all the Livingstones, and a heap more were downstars, and had sent for her."
James, it would seem, was charmed by the noble suitor, and all the glamour of youth and impulse which was in the splendid young cavalier, far more great and magnificent than all the Livingstones and Crichtons, who yet came with such abandon to the foot of the throne to devote himself to its service.
"After all," she said, as they turned to walk back again across the withered grass, "your fever has taken a good deal out of you." Finally the days of Laura Filbert's sojourn under the Livingstones' roof followed each other into the past that is not much pondered.
Owing to some old feud, the English family had not been on visiting terms with the Livingstones; consequently, 'Lena had never before been at Woodlawn, and her admiration increased with every step, and when at last they entered the house and stood within the elegant drawing-rooms, it knew no bounds.
There were looks of suspicion exchanged, and among the more violent and uncouth there were open boasts bandied, open taunts reciprocated, and open threats hurled back and forth. Most of the quality of the town were on the loyal side; but yet there were some excellent families such as the Livingstones who stood first and last among the so-called Whigs.
Even in this field Germany produces theological controversialists whom we have all studied, orthodox and destructive, but few pioneers, and practically no Augustines or Loyolas, Wesleys or Booths, Livingstones or Stanleys.
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