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Plausaby won't let me. Maybe I might tell Isa." "That will do just as well. Tell Miss Marlay." And Lurton walked out on the piazza. For half an hour Mrs. Plausaby talked to Isa and told her nothing. She would come face to face with the confession, and then say that she could not tell it, that Plausaby would do something awful if he knew she had said so much.
Lurton, going his round, found Charlton reading the New Testament. "Mr. Lurton, what a sublime prayer the Pater-noster is!" exclaimed Charlton. "Yes;" said Lurton, "it expresses so fully the only two feelings that can bring us to God a sense of guilt and a sense of dependence."
She was afraid she was going to die, and she had did Mr. Lurton think she would die? Didn't he think she might get well? Mr. Lurton had to say that, in his opinion, she could never get well, and that if there was anything on her mind, she would better tell it. Didn't Isa think she could get well? She didn't want to die. But then Katy was dead. Would she go to heaven if she died? Did Mr.
Or, is it that this high and ideal way of looking at such affairs is only another manifestation of practical wisdom? Certain it is, that though Isa found it impossible to set down a single reason for not loving so good a man with the utmost fervor, she found it equally impossible to love him with any fervor at all. Then she fell to pitying Lurton.
She took up her paper; she read over again the reasons why she ought to love Lurton. But though reason may chain Love and forbid his going wrong, all the logic in the world can not make him go where he will not. She had always acted as a most rational creature. Now, for the first time, she could not make her heart go where she would.
What, then, is this common-law rule which President Taft found so clear? No one has discussed it more lucidly than did the youthful Circuit Judge Taft himself in delivering the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals in the Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. case, an opinion in which his two associates on the bench, the late Justices Harlan and Lurton, concurred.
Jim looked at Lurton a moment indignantly. "Thunder and lightnin'," he said, "Dave tole me so hisself! Said she tole him. And Dave larfed over it, and thought it 'powerful cute' in her, as he said in his Hoosier lingo;" and Jim accompanied this last remark with a patronizing look at Gray. "Charlton, what are you thinking about?" asked Lurton when conversation flagged.
"Then I tell you, Albert, that if you go away you will sacrifice my happiness along with your own." It was a real merry party that met at a petit souper at nine o'clock in the evening in the dining-room of the City Hotel some months later. There was Lurton, now pastor in Perritaut, who had just given his blessing on the marriage of his friends, and who sat at the head of the table and said grace.
He stepped out of the door of the sick-chamber, and there, right before him, was Plausaby, his smooth face making a vain endeavor to keep its hold upon itself. But Lurton saw at once that Plausaby had heard the prayer in which he had framed Mrs. Plausaby's confession to Isa into a solemn and specific confession to God.
And she turned her head over and affected to be asleep. Mr. Lurton was now more eager than ever that the whole truth should come out, since he began to see how important Mrs. Plausaby's communication might be.
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