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"Oh, grandfather, I intended no harm. Did I strike so hard? Upon my word, I meant it not." At this moment Madame Van Heemskirk came quickly forward. She turned a face of disapproval on her husband, and asked sharply, "Why dost thou complain?" "I like not my house-door struck so rudely, Lysbet. No man in all America, but Joris Hyde, would dare to do it."
Then Dorothy made me known to those near her, to the pretty Carmichael twins, whose black eyes brimmed purest mischief; to Miss Haldimand, whose cold beauty had set the Canadas aflame; and to others of whom I have little recollection save their names. Christie McDonald and Lysbet Dirck, two fashionable New York belles, kin to the Schuylers.
I take leave to say that thou art doing right." "Well, then," said Hyde, "if my grandmother stand by me, and you also, sir; and also Madame Jacobus " "Madame Jacobus!" cried Lysbet. "Yes, indeed!" answered Hyde. "'Tis to her understanding and kindness I owe my opportunity; and she gave me, also, one look which I cannot pretend to misunderstand a look of clear sympathy a look that promised help."
"As men and women have in Paris to live, I wonder me, that they can wish to live at all! Welcome to them must be death." "So wrong are you, Lysbet. Trouble and hardship make us love life. A zest they give to it. It is when we have too much money, too much good food and wine, too much pleasure of all kinds, that we grow melancholy and sad, and say all is vanity and vexation.
Overly righteous we must not be, Lysbet." "I am astonished also. I thought Arenta would cry out and that only." "What a man or a woman will do and suffer, and how they will do and suffer, no one knows till comes some great occasion. When the water is ice, who could believe that it would boil, unless they had seen ice become boiling water? All the human heart wants, is the chance."
"She has said 'yes' to me; and, before heaven and earth, she will stand by it." "Say that much. And of thyself, art thou sure?" "Why art thou throwing cold water on such sweet hopes?" said Lysbet to her husband. "Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw. And THOU will not do it. No!
With these preliminaries neither Joris nor Lysbet interfered; but when he had lit his long pipe and seated himself comfortably in his chair, Lysbet said "Where hast thou been all this afternoon?" "I have been sealing up my friend's desk and drawers until his sons arrive. Very happy he looks. He is now ONE OF THOSE THAT KNOW." "Well, then, after the long strife, 'He Rests." "Men have written it.
Out of foolishness or perchance such a great love has not come. No, indeed! That it comes from heaven I am sure; and to heaven I will leave its good fortune." "Pleasant are thy hopes, Lysbet; but, too often, vain and foolish." "Thy reasoning, is it any wiser? No. Often I have found it wrong. One thing the years have said to me, it is this 'Lysbet put not thy judgment in the place of Providence.
"In my heart there is a fear, Lysbet," he said softly. "I think our boy has gone a road he will dearly rue. I foresee disputing, and wounded hearts, and lives made barren by many disappointed hopes." "Nothing of the kind," answered Lysbet cheerfully. "Our little Joris is so happy to-night, why wilt thou think evil for him? To think evil is to bring evil.
Joris re-lit his pipe, and Lysbet went softly and thoughtfully about her household duties. It was one of those hours in which Life distills for us her vague melancholy wine; and Joris and Lysbet drank deeply of it. The moon was in its third day, and the silent crescent has no calmer and sweeter time; yet Joris it inclined to a sad presentiment.
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