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Dropping the thumb with a little scream of satisfaction, she sidled briskly up and down MacAllister's shoulder, making herself quite at home. "My, but she's taken a shine to you, Mr. MacAllister!" exclaimed the Boy. "I never saw her do like that before." The Boss grinned proudly. "Ananias-an'-Sapphira be of the female sect, bain't she?" inquired Baldy Pallen, with a sly look over the company.
Elizabeth had not far to run. The old Bible, with the edges of its leaves all brown and ragged and most brown and ragged where the well-read psalms lay was always on the farthest window-sill with Father MacAllister's glasses beside it.
They added that the Canadian ladies seemed to expect the gentlemen to be a great deal more attentive than ours were. They had known as little what to do with Mr. Macallister's small-talk and compliments as his wife's audacities, but they did not view Bartley's responsiveness with pleasure. If Mrs.
The mother's beautiful eyes grew eager, hungry. "Would he be saying that to you, lovey?" she asked in a half-whisper. "No. But this book; it's a theological work. I thought from it " Elizabeth's heart was touched by the expression on Mother MacAllister's face. It had grown very sad. She glanced at the book and shook her head.
Macallister's arts were not subtle, as Bartley even in the intoxication of her preference could not keep from seeing, still, in his mood, it was consoling to be singled out by her; it meant that even in a logging-camp he was recognizable by any person of fashion as a good-looking, well-dressed man of the world.
Stephen's Church with its call to a higher life, of Mother MacAllister's words concerning One Who had Himself trod a thorny path and Whose true disciple must be content to follow. She looked up and saw her aunt's eyes fixed upon her in intense eagerness. "Your letter is from Mrs. Jarvis?" Miss Gordon could not keep the painful anxiety from showing in her face. "Yes," faltered Elizabeth.
She never tired of hearing their romantic story, and Mother MacAllister told it again, as they washed and wiped and put them away on the top shelf of the cupboard. They had been Mother MacAllister's finest wedding present, given just before she left the Old Country, years and years ago, when she and Father MacAllister were young, and there was no Charles Stuart.
But Elizabeth still clung forlornly to her resolution. She gained some comfort from seeing Eppie growing strong and rosy, and much from Mother MacAllister's counsel. Annie and John Coulson sympathized, too, though even Annie could not quite understand. Just one event broke the monotony of Elizabeth's days before John's homecoming. This was a visit from Estella and Horace.
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