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But how fond you were of it once." With closed eyes Sören lay holding Maren's hand. There was much to do in the kitchen, and she tried again and again to draw her hand away, but he opened his eyes each time, so she sat down, letting the things look after themselves, and there she was with the tears running down her furrowed face, while her thoughts ran on.
You know these things, M'sieu?" She leaned forward from the great smooth-barked tree and looked at him eagerly. "They are what brought me over seas," he said quietly, "what sent me to De Seviere, what hold me to the tribes that come each year to my doors." Maren's lips were parted, the fire of her passion in her flaming face.
"Forgive the passion that could forget the great business of the night," he said, and they went forward, though Maren's fingers still rested in his clasp. Through the thinning wood which neared the stream presently there came a glow and then the shine of a great fire ahead, with massed figures that leaped and sprang, fantastic as a witch's carnival, and a roar of frightful voices.
This would at any other time have been enough to call forth a hail-storm of questions from Uncle Frederick. But this evening he was so much taken up with his own experiences that for the moment he put his nephew's affairs aside. "I can tell you, you were very foolish," he said, "not to go with me to Aunt Maren's. We have had such a jolly evening, I'm sure you would have enjoyed it.
They now entered still deeper into the moral: the conversation lasted till coffee came. Maren's heart beat even quicker, partly in expectation of the play, through hearing of the corruptions of this Copenhagen Sodom. She heard Otto defend this French piece; heard him speak of affectation. Was he then corrupted? How gladly would she have heard him discourse upon propriety, as Hans Peter had done.
"Come in, Ma'amselle," whispered Rette from her motherly heart, drawn by sight of her haggard face, but Maren's eyes had fallen on a little figure huddled on the far side of the bed with its face buried against McElroy's left hand. She knew the small head running over with black curls. "Nay, Rette," she said quietly, "I would speak a moment with you." The woman came out and closed the door.
So this was what caused the rumpus in the night! But come, dearie, 'tis rest ye want, sure!" She laid her and on Maren's arm and there was in its gentle touch something which broke down the last quivering strand of strength within the girl, striving to stand upright. "Yes, Madame," she said dreamily. "Yes, but he must have he must have broth and a bandage, wet"
Galbraith's answer this ready-witted person checked by a gesture the exclamations that would naturally have followed, and tranquilly inquired: "How came you to go in there?" This is Mr. Maren's version of Mr.
The great trading-room, lined with its shelves and circled with counters, was empty, save for a clerk, Gifford, who cast accounts in the big book on the factor's desk, and Maren's footsteps rang heavy to her ears as she passed through it to the little room behind, where she could see Rette passing back and forth at her tasks of mercy.
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